World War II

As bookmen and women became intelligence agents, the ordinary activities of librarianship—acquisition, cataloguing, and reproduction—became fraught with mystery

An estimated ten thousand refugees from Germany and Austria settled in greater Los Angeles between 1933 and 1941

Today, the underwater wreckage is considered a historic relic, a sacred open grave and an environmental dilemma

The U.S. government orchestrated the roundup of people of Japanese descent in 12 Latin American countries, citing “hemispheric security"

They were subjected to forced sterilization as a form of ethnic cleansing, and a large number were sent to special internment camps

Read an excerpt from 'Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America'