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Press ReleaseNEW ORLEANS (December 2, 2009) – "Never forget." Those two words serve as both a remembrance and a call to action for Americans as the na...
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Battlefield souvenir could solve mystery of stolen art
NEW ORLEANS (December 17, 2009) – When the young men and women who served in World War II returned home, many of them were not empty hand... -
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Mandeville High School wins The National World War II Museum’s Cox High School Quiz Bowl
On March 25, 2010, The National World War II Museum held finals for the annual Cox Quiz Bowl. This year’s competition was won by Mandeville High School. Second place went to Brother Martin High School.
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The National World War II Museum in New Orleans Smashes Attendance Records
Be the reason technology, family or frugality, people are flocking to The National World War II Museum in the resurgent Crescent City. Since the start of 2010, more than 100,000 visitors have trooped through the Museum’s six-acre campus to learn about the battles and motives behind the 20th-century’s most momentous event. In the process they are breaking all attendance records.
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Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
Just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students carried out an “Action Against the Un-German Spirit” targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Their orchestrated book burnings across Germany would come to underscore German-Jewish writer Heinrich Heine’s 19th century warning, “where one burns books, one soon burns people.
Past Events
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"The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy"
10/14/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMTune into a webinar featuring Dr. de Grazia presenting on her latest book, The Perfect Fascist, which tells the story of fascist, Attilio Teruzzi—a war hero turned commander of Mussolini’s Black Shirts—and how the personal became political in the fascist quest for manhood and power.
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Teaching Strategies and Digital Tools for Online Student Engagement
10/13/2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMTune in to this pre-recorded presentation in which Museum educators will share how to modify Museum activities and lesson plans for an online environment.
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Red Tail, WASP and Firefly: The Aviators of WWII
10/08/2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMIn this session, Sherri L. Smith will talk about her research and the very human stories behind the history of WWII aviation.