The United states is still feeling the effects of wartime rationing, even 80-plus years later. It's most apparent in the food ...

Imagine your closet with only three pairs of shoes in it. At one time, that was reality for many Americans. As The New York Times pointed out, on this day in 1945, the U.S. government lifted a war-era ...

World War II had a profound effect on American civilian life, including the foods that people ate. An apple pie from the era ...

The problems in the Middle East and American universities etc. produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945) that the older ...

Today, recreating these wartime recipes provides a direct connection to history and a reminder of the resilience and ingenuity of past generations. These meals tell the story of Americans who ...

Found: War ration books filled with stamps for food, sugar and other commodities meted out to the nation’s Greatest Generation during World War II. Someone found the bits of history at South Lyon’s ...

Because six months passed without anyone claiming them, the South Lyon Area Historical Society has some new World War II rations books. They were found at McHattie Park over the summer. Police held ...

Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...