Slate Presents: One Year

In 1942, federal officials targeted a group of Black Americans who were allegedly hoping for a Japanese invasion. They u... Read more

Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the United States. This time, Axis forces actually invad... Read more

In March 1942, a new nightly radio show hit the American airwaves. The stated goal of Station Debunk was to correct all ... Read more

On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening... Read more

There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a single year in American history. But ... Read more

At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or the Japanese—it was... Read more

After Joe Mauri gets evicted from his New York apartment, he becomes a star in the USSR, the subject of a documentary ab... Read more

On May 16, 1986, a man with a bomb held an entire elementary school hostage in the tiny town of Cokeville, Wyoming. Inst... Read more

In Seattle, a pack of voracious sea lions decimates the local fish population. When fireworks and an underwater air horn... Read more

Black residents of Indianola, Mississippi, were fed up with decades of separate-and-unequal classrooms. When a white out... Read more