September 2010 | History Cooperative

League of Nations: Purpose, WWI, and Failure

The League of Nations was an international organization founded on January 10, 1920, following the conclusion of World War I. It was established as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the war and was a pioneering attempt at forming an international organization aimed at maintaining peace and preventing future conflicts on a global …

The Battle of Okinawa

by Guest Contribution

It’s early in the month of April, in the year 1945. In a small, quiet little town somewhere out in the Midwest, a housewife hears the clatter of the mailman’s bicycle on the dusty sidewalk. Stepping out onto the porch, she blinks in the glare of the morning sun. There’s a single envelope jutting out …