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1922 Marcus Garvey Newspaper Article | Marcus Garvey August August 19 1922
1922, African-American History, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Marcus Garvey: The Negro Moses
(Literary Digest, 1922)

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A profile of Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887 – 1940), Jr.; National Hero of Jamaica. During his lifetime Garvey worked as a publisher, a journalist, and an entrepreneur. A devoted Black nationalist and a black separatist, Marcus Garvey was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He rubbed a good many white folk the wrong way and this article from The Literary Digest covers much of his activities leading up to 1922.

The 6th Rangers on Luzon (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Army Rangers, Yank Magazine

The 6th Rangers on Luzon
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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This notice was the Yank magazine account of what has come to be known as the Great Raid that was commanded by Lt Col. Henry A. Mucci (1909 – 1997). On January 30, 1945 Mucci lead a raiding party of 121 hand-picked men of the 6th Rangers accompanied by some 300 Filipino guerrillas into the jungles on Luzon (The Philippines) in order to liberate the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At the loss of only two men, the raiders freed 510 American POWs.


Click here to read more about the Cabanatuan POW camp.

US Army Rangers on Dieppe Raid
1942, Army Rangers, Newsweek

The Rangers Go Public
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

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The first time the American public learned of the existence of the now famous U.S. Army Rangers was through articles like this one, that appeared during August of 1942. This article made public the fact that fewer than 100 Rangers had participated in the not-terribly-successful raid on Dieppe.

The Rangers were named after Rogers’ Rangers, the rough and crafty Indian fighters of colonial days who battled near the Canadian border under their leader, Major Robert Rogers… All Rangers are volunteers, selected for strength and ability to use such weapons as daggers, grenades, fists, tommy guns and mortars.

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CPUSA 1939 | American Communists During the 1930s Great Depression | american communist party
1939, Click Magazine, Recent Articles, The Great Depression

The Great Depression and American Communists
(Click Magazine, 1939)

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This photo-essay tells the story of the radical elements within the United States during the later period of the Great Depression – all of them were directed and financed by Georgi Dimitrov (1882 – 1949) in far-off Moscow. The leaders of the American Communist Party USA (CPUSA) were William Z. Foster, Earl Browder, and Ella Reeve Bloor.


In 1944, the city of Seattle, Washington elected a communist to the U.S. House of Representatives, click here to read about him…


Click here to learn how thoroughly the FBI had infiltrated the CPUSA.


Click here to read about an American woman who grew heartily sick of the socialists who pontificated on every street corner during the Great Depression…


Click here to read about the tactics that American Communists used in Hollywood during the Great Depression…


From Amazon: Demagogues in the Depression: American Radicals and the Union Party, 1932-1936,style=border:none

Andrew Mellon's Gift (Art Digest, 1937)
1937, Miscellaneous, Recent Articles, The Art Digest

Andrew Mellon’s Gift
(Art Digest, 1937)

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A 1937 news column announced the very generous gift to Washington, D.C. and the nation made by billionaire philanthropist Andrew W. Mellon (1855 — 1937): The National Gallery of Art:

A long, low, classic structure, tailored in lines that harmonize with the neighboring white Beaux-Arts buildings, will house the new National Gallery made possible for the nation’s capital by Andrew W. Mellon. The plans, designed by John Russell Popestyle=border:none have already been accepted by the Fine Arts Commission and construction… will get underway as soon as congressional authorization is made… The cost of the building, which will be borne entirely by Mr. Mellon, is estimated at $9,000,000.


(The cost was actually $10,000,000)


Click here to read additional articles from the Twenties and Thirties about art.

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1940s Makeup and W.W. II (Click Magazine, 1942)
1942, Click Magazine, Cosmetics, Recent Articles

1940s Makeup and W.W. II
(Click Magazine, 1942)

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Illustrated with thirteen pictures of the most popular U.S. makeup products used throughout the Forties, this article provides a fascinating look at how World War II effected the American cosmetic industry and how that same industry benefited the American war effort.


The U.S. cosmetics industry was effected in many ways, read the article and find out.


Click here to read a 1954 article about Marilyn Monroe.

Atomic Veteran Testimony 1958 |
1958, Atomic Bombs, Recent Articles, Tab Magazine

‘They Dropped The A-Bomb On Me”
(Tab Magazine, 1958)

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During the Cold war, as many as 400,000 American military personnel were forced to witness Atomic explosions. Having been sworn to secrecy, this veteran wrote his testimony under the penname, Soldier X:

Then I saw the true power and fury of nature as a giant fireball sluggishly rolled upward through the thick layer of dust: I estimated its distance at about 1500 feet up. Surrounding the red mass are twisting white snakes of clouds….This is color as few humans have ever seen it, magnificent, threatening and horrible.

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Distribution of Wealth' (Pathfinder Magazine, 1946)
1946, Pathfinder Magazine, The Nanny State

Distribution of Wealth’
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1946)

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Columnist Wheeler McMillen penned the attached 1946 editorial concerning a subject African-Americans have long recognized as problematic: American democracy and the tyranny of the majority. This has become a timely subject since President Obama introduced the term distribution of wealth to the American vocabulary during the 2008 election – this was swiftly followed-up by the Occupy movement and their Tweets regarding the ambitions of the 99 percent (meaning, majority – the Russian translation for this term is Bolshevik):

'Uranium-235: Can It Win the War?'' (Coronet Magazine, 1942)
1942, Atomic Bombs, Coronet Magazine

‘Uranium-235: Can It Win the War?”
(Coronet Magazine, 1942)

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Three years before terms such as Enola Gay and Atom Bomb would become household words, this five page article appeared in an American magazine informing the folks on the home front that this monstrosity was being developed silently behind the scenes.


We have no doubt that the FBI was knocking at the publisher’s door the very second that the issue appeared on the newsstands.

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Leif Tronstad Thwarted German Atomic Research | Leif Tronstad Heavy Water Experiments
1945, Atomic Bombs, Coronet Magazine

‘How We Escaped the Bomb”
(Coronet Magazine, 1945)

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Said Winston Churchill in offering thanks for Divine help in the race for atomic power, ‘By His mercy British and American science outpaced all German efforts.’

Thank God, to be sure. But it should not be overlooked that for this work He had an able servant in Lief Tronstad. As saboteur par excellence, the young professor was a ball and chain on Nazi ankles in this race to the atomic finish line.

Mareth Line Battle News Article | British Attack Along Mareth Line 1943
1943, North Africa, PM Tabloid

British Attack Along The Mareth Line
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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The British have struck heavily at the Mareth Line in what both sides call the opening blow of the long-awaited big battle of Tunisia.


(The Mareth Line was a system of bunkers built by France in southern Tunisia during the late Thirties. The line was intended to protect Tunisia against an Italian invasion from its colony in Libya.)

General Lunsford Errett Oliver in Tunisia | US Army in Tunisia North Africa 1943 | General Lunsford Errett Oliver Collier's Magazine April 17 1943
1943, Collier's Magazine, North Africa

The Opening Campaign in Tunisia
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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General Lunsford Errett Oliver (1889 – 1978) wrote this article about his experiences commanding the American Army in Tunisia. As many of you may know, the American efforts in North Africa were fraught with many difficulties, the least of them were the Germans. The biggest one referred to by the general was the total lack of air cover for his advancing army.


Click here to read about the retreat of the Africa Corps.

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General Rommel Retreat from North Africa 1942 | Photographer Slim Aarons Was A WW II War Reporter
1942, North Africa, Yank Magazine

The Afrika Korps in Retreat
(Yank Magazine, 1942)

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This article was penned by YANK correspondent Sergeant George Slim Aarons (1916 – 2006) concerning his travels throughout the Allied occupied portions of Tunisia in 1943. Aarons reported on the heavy presence of German military debris that could be found scattered throughout the deserts – evidence that spelled out the imminent eviction of the Germans from that continent:

Some of these tanks lay in groups, showing how they had clustered together and fought it out to the bitter end. Other iron carcasses were alone in the desert, burned and twisted – relics of a hopeless, single-handed struggle against the Allied forces.


Click here to read about the retreat of the German 7th Army from Normandy.

The News of the W.W. I Armistice (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

The News of the W.W. I Armistice
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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By the time this news column was read by the American Doughboys the truce was old news, however it makes for an interesting read as it is able to impart much of the Armistice excitement that filled the streets of Paris when the news of the surrender hit the boulevards. This front-page column makes clear that many of the rumors pertaining to the German collapse could not be verified, yet affirms reports concerning the revolution in Germany, it’s food shortages and the Kaiser’s exile to Holland.

Click here to read World War II articles from YANK MAGAZINE.

The A.E.F. Tank Corps (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
1919, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

The A.E.F. Tank Corps
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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This article appeared some seven months after the war, and it presents an interesting account of the first American tank units that ever existed.


The preferred tank of the American Army of World War I was a light tank made by the French called a Renault. It had a crew of two, measured 13 feet (4 meters) in length and weighed 6.5 tons. The tank’s 35 hp. engine moved it along at a top speed of 6 miles per hour. This article outlines where the American tanks fought, which units they supported and who commanded them; some readers may be interested to know that reference is made to the First American Tank Brigade and the officer in charge: Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton (1885 – 1945).

During the course of the Meuse-Argonne battles, the tank units of the 1st Brigade had lost 3 officers and 16 enlisted men killed, and 21 officers and 131 enlisted men were wounded. These losses were suffered in 18 separate engagements…


Read about General Patton, Click here


Read other articles from 1919.

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