Many may know Martha Gellhorn as one of the many wives of fellow journalist and literary giant, Ernest Hemingway; however, she was so much more. Although just a budding journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Gellhorn would later witness and cover many pivotal moments of World War II and the rest of the 20th century.

The Museum is proud to feature one of its own, Dr. Steph Hinnershitz, to discuss her recently released book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, which places the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II within a history of US prison labor and exploitation.

One of the country's leading authorities on post-1945 Japan joins an Institute historian to discuss this crucial time in Japanese history.

In this lecture, hear Historian Dr. Kristen D. Burton, Lecturer of US History at The University of Alberta, delve into the life, artistry, and espionage of a true icon of the generation.

The 102nd Cavalry was a New Jersey Army National Guard unit that was activated and mechanized just prior to America’s entry into World War II.

The 102nd Cavalry was a New Jersey Army National Guard unit that was activated and mechanized just prior to America’s entry into World War II.

Join us for the concluding event of our 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor programming, a discussion that covers a sweeping history of America’s long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfare.

A panel discussion of historians from members of The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy in The National WWII Museum’s US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center

British author and historian Anthony Tucker-Jones comes to discuss his latest work on one of the giants of history, Winston Churchill, with the Museum’s own Dr. Rob Citino. Presented as The Orlin Russell Corey Memorial Lecture, in Partnership with the Churchill Society of New Orleans.

While US strategy in 1941 was largely focused on the war in Europe, the bold carrier raid seized the initiative against increasing US pressure over Japan’s ongoing war in China. Captain Rick Jacobs will discuss the events of that terrible, heroic day—from the opening of Japan by Commodore Mathew Perry in the 1850’s through the devastation at Pearl Harbor on December 7.