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Travel Webinar: Megastructures with Historian Alexandra Richie
Watch as The National WWII Museum's Educational Travel Team and Historian Alexandra Richie discuss the Megastructures: Forced Labor and Massive Works in the Third Reich tour.
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Dauntless: A Conversation with WWII Veteran Paul Hilliard
Visitors at the National WWII Museum had the special opportunity to hear from WWII veteran and Museum Trustee Paul Hilliard as he discussed his life story documented in the new biography, Dauntless.
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Our War Too: Women's History Symposium
The symposium, which took place from February 29 to March 1, 2024, featured topics expanding upon the Museum’s special exhibit, Our War Too: Women in Service.
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Meet the Author: James B. Conroy, 'The Devils Will Get No Rest'
Conroy discussed his unique perspective of the Anglo-American clash over military strategy in January 1943 that ultimately produced the Allied plan for victory in World War II.
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2023 International Conference on World War II
The 16th 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.
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Congressional Medal of Honor Society Character Development Program Student Webinar
During this webinar, The National WWII Museum welcomed the Medal of Honor Recipients to campus to share stories of courage, commitment, integrity, sacrifice, citizenship, and patriotism with students across the country.
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2023 Summer Seminar in Military History
Fellows were introduced to the wealth of resources available within the Museum’s collection and in the field at-large, gaining advice on how to use these valuable tools in their own teaching and scholarship.
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Pearl Harbor Commemorative Ceremony
During this year’s commemorative ceremony, pay tribute to those who lost their lives on December 7, 1941, through a moving program that brings to life the enduring significance and legacy of this day, its heroic Medal of Honor actions, and its relevance today.
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Keep in Touch: Letters of Hope
During this webinar, Linda Hope, daughter of Bob Hope, and The National WWII Museum will discuss her father’s legacy by examining some of the letters he received, emphasizing how this translates to current classrooms and how letter writing can still make an impact on active military communities today.
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Why Did "Kristallnacht" Happen? Teaching the History of European Antisemitism
Learn about Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” and how the history of European antisemitism helped lead to this event.
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Meet the Author—Borderlands Biography: Z. Anthony Kruszewski in Wartime Europe and Postwar America
Join us for an engaging evening with Z. Anthony Kruszewski—an eyewitness to the war in Europe, an extraordinary man, and leading intellectual in the Polish-American community.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Unconditional Extermination: Operation Reinhard and the SS Camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka
This presentation will offer a detailed history of the Operation Reinhard camps Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka in 1942–1943 and where they might fit in the larger history of the Holocaust.
Notes from the Museum
Dispatches from The National WWII Museum