Vol. 12 No. 2 (2026): Special Issue: America and the Second World War 80 Years On

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v12i2

Published: 2026-07-23

Full Issue

• BJMH 12,2

Editorial

• Editorial

  Alasdair Urquhart, George Wilton

  1-2

  • BJMH 12,2 Editorial

Articles

• Introduction: America and the Second World War 80 Years On – Impacts and Legacies at Home and Abroad

  Christian O'Connell

  3-7

  • BJMH 12,2 Introduction

• Prisoners of Conscience: Labour, Religion, and Gender in Conscientious Objectors’ Second World War Protests

  Caleb Woodall

  8-26

  • BJMH 12,2 A1

• ‘WE MUST! WE WILL! WE CAN!’: American identity in the newspapers of Japanese American incarceration camps, 1942-1945

  Maddie Hale

  27-46

  • BJMH 12,2 A2

• ‘I was scared as hell, you know…’: African American POWs in Europe and the shaping and reshaping of U.S. national memories of the Second World War

  Simona Tobia

  47-66

  • BJMH 11,2 A3

• How to be an American Housewife: American Red Cross Brides’ Schools of the Occupation of Japan

  Samantha Lanevi

  67-85

  • BJMH 12,2 A4

• ‘Life without you in the army – well, honey, I hate to even think of it.’: Esther Herbert, Marvyl Doyle and Lesbian Connection in Second World War America

  Katie Marshall

  86-103

  • BJMH 12,2 A5

• ‘The Danger Lies in the Future’: Student draft deferment and the atomic cloud over US higher education

  Rebecca Stone

  104-122

  • BJMH 12,2 A6