Keith Huxen, PhD is the former Senior Director of Research in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy (2020). Keith helped develop the historical exhibits in the Museum’s capital expansion plan, including the permanent exhibits in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, the Road to Berlin and Road to Tokyo galleries in the Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters pavilion, and The Arsenal of Democracy galleries opened in June 2017. He also helped plan the new Hall of Democracy and upcoming Liberation pavilion, and worked in ongoing museum initiatives including travel programs, online education, publications, media productions, conferences and symposia, and partnerships with organizations such as the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).
Keith Huxen
Contributor
More from the Contributor
-
Article TypeHistory Through the Viewfinder
Learn MoreSeventy-five years after the Germans began their attack on Stalingrad, a look at the Volga from atop Mamayev Kurgan.
-
Article Type
Memory and Understanding
Learn MoreThe past, present, and future of The National WWII Museum's collection of oral histories.
-
Guadalcanal Gallery Tour
Learn MoreTour Road to Tokyo's Guadalcanal gallery with Keith Huxen, PhD, Senior Director of Research and History in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
-
Article Type
Guadalcanal Diary
Learn MoreRichard Tregaskis’s account of the first seven weeks of fighting is a classic of war literature.
-
Article Type
Preparing for the Citizen Soldier’s Return: the GI Bill of 1944
Learn More"By the war’s conclusion, nearly 16 million men and a half million women would provide military service for their country. Where would the opportunities to create better lives for themselves come from for these men and women who had seen, experienced, and sacrificed so much during the war years?"
