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1940s history

Western

Celebrating Identity

Mike Crowe Jr. shares the story of his tribe at the Museum of the Cherokee.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Decades Series

The Deluge of 1940

Mountain communities bear the brunt of the decade’s most deadly Atlantic storm — forever changing our western landscape.

by Philip Gerard
Decades Series

The Home of the Airborne

After the Great War, the army planned to mothball a sandhills airfield. But when the United States is pulled into another conflict, the base is reborn with a new purpose and a new name: Fort Bragg.

by Philip Gerard

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