In the years that followed 1945, one of the more contentious debates between Soviet and Western scholars of the Second World War concerned the role of the Allied Lend-Lease program in contributing to the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany. Western scholars tended to view the Allied delivery of materiel and equipment as the decisive [...]

In July 1989 historian and Auburn University professor James R. Hansen published an article that quickly became an instant classic for historians of technology and, more specifically, historians of aviation. Titled, “Aviation History in the Wider View” and appearing in the leading scholarly journal Technology and Culture, Hansen’s article served as a much-needed critique of [...]