It’s an amazing story, this story of real people.
Book Review—Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation”
Posted by Sherry Best on December 26, 2011
What Do I Love About Big Band Music? The Spirit!
Posted by Sherry Best on December 12, 2011
Keeping morale up was critical: the music speaks of hope, of dancing, of forgetting the dangers the world was in.
Holidays in Wartime
Posted by Charity Rouse on November 28, 2011
Join Special Collections staff member Charity Rouse in the Topeka Room on Saturday, December 3, 2-3pm for a discussion of holiday traditions and how they changed during World War II with rationing, men overseas, and all the complications the war brought on the home front. The program includes caroling around the piano, advertisements from the [...]
