Racial Fault-lines in “Baseball’s Great Experiment:” Black Perceptions, White Reactions by Henry D. Fetter

“…By so doing, the paper will illuminate the fault-lines that characterized race relations within both the sport of baseball and the larger society as each was confronted with new challenges to long established policies and practices in the years after the Second World War.…”
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Italy and the history of preventive conservation by Simon Lambert

“…After a brief look at the history of preventive conservation from Antiquity to the Second World War, two seldom-discussed Italian initiatives are presented: The Franceschini Commission (1964) and the Pilot plan for the programmed conservation of cultural heritage in Umbria (1976).…”
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Primordiality of Salvatore Scarpitta by Antonella Chiazza

“…The article analyzes the artistic research by Salvatore Scarpitta, one of the major protagonists of the international art scene after the Second World War, in its different phases: expressionist, abstract-figurative and informal. …”
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Lucio Fontana and the Architecture by Antonella Chiazza

“…This article explores the Spatialism in architectural terms, which is at the base of Lucio Fontana’s work after the Second World War. A fundamental and lesser-known aspect of the artist’s work, developed since 1949, is the creation of ‘Ambienti Spaziali’, really and truly architectural spaces that test the perception and often even the sense of balance of visitors. …”
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A Long Shadow of World War II: Development of the National Security Concept in the United States by V. A. Veselov

“…The paper examines how lessons of the Second World War led to a rethinking of this concept, and how approaches to national security evolved during the war and immediately after it. …”
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Skrifbeskouing en oorredingsretoriek: perspektiewe op performatiewe prediking by Johan Cilliers

“…The critique that has been levelled against this understanding of Scripture and preaching, initiated through the mind-set of the Enlightenment (Kant), gaining momentum since the Second World War, and coming to full fruition in the so-called postmodernism, is briefly addressed. …”
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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  Remarkably, Rawbon believed that, like his artist's stretchers and other inventions, the restoration of paintings held a key to the making of a fortune.…”
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V Americe za války „před válkou“. Působení plk. gšt. Oldřicha Španiela v USA v letech 1939–1941 by Tomáš Jiránek

“… During the Second World War, the Czechoslovak exile authorities were building military units which should have supported the efforts of the anti-fascist coalition. …”
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Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019) by Gabrielė Norkūnaitė

“…Nonetheless, by generating an immersive experience and engaging viewers at the level of affect, the film effectively engages in polemics with public narratives of the Second World War. …”
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Le latino-américanisme français en perspective by Mona Huerta

“…This article aims to show the evolution of the often contrasting cultural and scientific ties that France has with Latin America, emphasizing in particular the elements of their revival after the Second World War and their transformations in the early twenty-first century. …”
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An Analysis of the Impact of the Syrian Crisis on Turkey’s Politic-Military, Social and Economic Security by Sertif DEMİR, Muzaffer Ercan YILMAZ

“…It concludes that the Syrian Crisis represents Turkey’s most challenging security problem since the end of the Second World War as it has had many profound impacts on the country.…”
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Résistance(s) et identités plurielles dans la poésie occitane de la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Cecile Noilhan

“…Focusing on Laurence Campa’s works about the Great War poets, this study of works written by four occitan poets, -Charles Camproux, Max Allier, Félix Castan and Robert Lafont-, during the Second World War, puts forward a typology of occitan poets whose political determination, through writing, turns out to be dual: a denunciation of the living conditions during the war and a promotion of their own language, the occitan language.…”
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Con « m » de « mamá » : las militantes comunistas y la Unión de Mujeres Argentinas durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX by Natalia Casola

“…This article analyzes the characteristics of the policy developed by the Argentine Communist Party towards women from the Second World War until the end of the military dictatorship in 1983. …”
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Trouble dans la guerre : The Heat of the Day d’Elizabeth Bowen, un roman d’espionnage au féminin by Céline Magot

“…The Second World War saw a radicalisation of gendered and social identities. …”
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Os periódicos acadêmicos de geografia francesa de 1940-1945. Entre a pobreza material e a resistência intelectual by Laurent Beauguitte

“…Speaking of censorship as prisoners of war or the daily difficulties related to the Second World War, geographers evocated here clearly produce a contemporary geography.…”
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Ce qui aurait pu être et ne fut pas. Une perspective cinématographique de la psychiatrie catalane en exil by Cristina Bernaldo

“…He stayed in Saint Alban for most of the Second World War, overcoming the “soft extermination” period, on which French psychiatry has only conducted limited investigations, with no loss of lives. …”
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Imperialismo, fascismo y revolución. El discurso sobre la guerra en la prensa anarquista gallega by Óscar Freán Hernández

“…The class struggle, the imperialistic expansion, the rise of totalitarian regimes, the civil wars or the military rearmament were expressions of this drift that will lead in a few years to the Second World War. The interpretation of these issues given by the libertarian movement is the subject of our work, based on the study of two Galician newspapers -the weekly newspaper Solidaridad and the fortnightly newspaper Brazo y Cerebro- published in the months before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.…”
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« Ne diriez-vous pas qu’il s’agit là de propagande ? » Le programme d’information internationale des États-Unis en débat (1945-1947) by Raphaël Ricaud

“…In the aftermath of the Second World War, the United States dismantled its Office of War Information. …”
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D’Ángel Rodríguez Leira à Ángel Cariño López by Óscar Freán Hernández

“…Like so many other exiles, the fate of our protagonist is marked by the Civil War and the Second World War, by the separation from his family and his country, by the reconstruction of a new life in France, by silence and by the presence of a complex and difficult past.…”
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Programmes & praxis: a review of taken-for-granted knowledge by Leon Fulcher

“…This term has been used extensively in North America since the end of the Second World War but was much less common in the United Kingdom until recent years. …”