Joseph Wilson

In the uneasy years between the two world wars, the scars of the first conflict remained visible across continents. Cities rebuilt themselves atop rubble, borders were redrawn in haste, and entire generations carried the psychological weight of industrialized slaughter. Yet peace, though declared, was fragile. Beneath diplomatic ceremonies and treaties lay unresolved grievances, economic instability, and simmering resentment. The origins of World War II were not born in a single moment or...

Margaret Mead was born in 1901 into a family that treated ideas as a form of daily bread. Raised in Pennsylvania by a sociologist mother and an economist father, Mead grew up surrounded by debates about human behavior, education, and social reform. This intellectual environment shaped her early conviction that culture, not biology alone, molded human lives. As a student at Barnard College, she fell under the influence of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, pioneers of American anthropology who...

The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor