Articles on Memorial Day 2015

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Laying wreaths in front of the Freedom Wall in Washington on V-E Day 2015. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Victory in Europe remembered

Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College and Christian Wendt, Freie Universität Berlin

On Memorial Day, reflecting on the meaning of the ‘liberation’ of Europe 70 years on.
The Grand Review of the Union Armies May 1865 Library of Congress

Remembering Sherman’s Army

Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The story of the Grand Review of the Union Armies in May 1865 and of the veterans of Sherman’s March who believed that it was their campaign that helped bring the Civil War to its end.
Canadian Artillery gunners read the Victory issue of the Maple Leaf newspaper in Germany after Germany surrenders. REUTERS/Lieut. Donald I. Grant /Canada Department of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-150931

Sitting on a scoop: the story behind the V‑E headlines of May 1945

Christopher B. Daly, Boston University

As we commemorate Memorial Day, the drama behind the headlines announcing Germany’s surrender in World War II.

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  2. Confederacy
  3. Germany
  4. Memorial Day
  5. Nationalism
  6. Nazi Germany
  7. Racism
  8. World War II

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