From the Archives: Champion’s Day: The End of Old Shanghai

Speaking of the Japanese invasion of China as the possible beginning of World War II, as I believe we were, allow me to share a post from 2020 about a book that introduced me to a very specific piece of that story. *** I will admit that I approached historian James Carter’s book Champion’s Day:…

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Rosie the Riveter’s Texas Cousins–and a Piece of Big News at the End!

Rosie the Riveter entered the American imagination in 1942 in a song by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb which celebrated a tireless factory worker and her riveting gun.* Artists quickly picked up the image for patriotic posters, the best known being J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It” poster for Westinghouse Electric. But Rosie…

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