History in a New Light
An Inside Look at Curating Expressions of America
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Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Holocaust By Bullets
Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, Jews were already being murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics.
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A Black Soldier's Letters Home
Join us for a special program highlighting wartime correspondence from James Killion, Jr.
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China's War, China's Memories
Join us for an engaging conversation about Sir Rana Mitter's two masterful works, Forgotten Ally and China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism.
Past Events
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The WASPs: The Women Airforce Service Pilots, Dorothy Mann, and their Lasting Legacy
11/26/2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMJoin the Museum for a special presentation and rare artifact donation from the entire Dorothy Mann family. Mann was one of 1,100 women trained as pilots with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).
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Into the Vault Tour
11/25/2019 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AMStep inside The National WWII Museum’s private Center for Collections & Archives and take an intimate two-hour journey into WWII history through rarely seen artifacts that give voice to the American experience in World War II.
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Exhibit Opening for "Remembered Light"
11/21/2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMJoin us for the opening of our newest special exhibit Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II, the McDonald Windows.
