Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss.

Join The National WWII Museum's Educational Travel Team and Historian William I. Hitchcock as they explore the highlights of this upcoming journey through Normandy and into the heart of Paris.

The engaging daylong symposium program provided a deep dive into the significant role Black servicemembers and Home Front workers played in securing Allied victory in World War II.

The National WWII Museum joins the nation in mourning the loss of Jimmy Carter (1924–2024), a US Navy veteran and the 39th president of the United States of America.

In Hitler’s Winter, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive in the West. 

The 17th International Conference on World War II, a program of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum, was presented by the Pritzker Military Foundation on behalf of Pritzker Military Museum & Library, with additional support from the Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II Endowment Fund and the George P. Shultz Forum on World Affairs.

More than 2,600 Americans perished around the world on October 24, 1944—a day overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history.

The novel Sunniland follows a young geologist in Florida monitoring the development of a new oil well while facing a German U-boat rampage taking place in the nearby Gulf of Mexico in the spring of 1943.

The National WWII Museum marked a major milestone by welcoming the 10 millionth visitor to its New Orleans campus.

The National WWII Museum mourns the loss of WWII veteran, Museum volunteer, and dear friend Herman “Dutch” Prager Jr., who passed away recently at age 99.

Mark Calhoun, PhD, offered a detailed examination of General Lesley J. McNair, a man so instrumental to America’s military preparedness and Army modernization but remains little-known today.