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. 

Wishing Museum Senior Vice President for Capital Programs Bob Farnsworth the best as he retires.

Celebrating Founding President & CEO Emeritus Dr. Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller’s three decades of leadership and accomplishments.

The National WWII Museum mourns the passing of the Honorable Jacquelyn “Jackie” Brechtel Clarkson, Trustee Emerita. 

At this free daylong public symposium, guests heard from leading historians on the challenges, battles, and victories that followed the June 6 Allied landings and made the liberation of Europe from Nazi oppression possible.

Tuskegee Airmen, Four-Star General Ann E. Dunwoody, and Acclaimed Filmmaker Steven Spielberg Bestowed with Museum’s Highest Honor

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. 

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.

Museum President & CEO Emeritus Nick Mueller mourns the loss of friend and colleague Marc Pachter. 

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.

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.