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Winston Churchill's Christmas Meeting with FDR
An interview with Anthony Tucker-Jones, author of the newly released Churchill: Master and Commander.
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The Four Freedoms
In January of 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined a vision of the future in which people the world over could enjoy four essential freedoms. This vision persisted throughout World War II and came to symbolize the ideals behind the rights of humanity and the pursuit of peace in a postwar world.
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The Smith–Connally Act and Labor Battles on the Home Front
War production was crucial for an Allied victory, but what happened when labor strikes challenged the “arsenal of democracy”?
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History Through the Viewfinder
The concluding "room" of FDR’s Washington, DC, memorial underscores a poignant connection to Thomas Jefferson.
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"Straw" Vote Gives FDR the Lager: The 1944 POW Vote
Even while held as POWs by the Germans in the POW camp Stalag Luft IV, American servicemen exercised their civic duty and made their voices heard, at least to each other, when they held a straw vote for the 1944 presidential election.
Past Events
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Meet the Author--"Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II From Guadalcanal to Peleliu"
06/14/2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMOld Breed General is the biography of Rupertus and the story of the Marines at war in the Pacific.
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Meet the Author--Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II
02/17/2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe 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.
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Remembrance Lei Workshop
02/12/2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMJoin our family workshop at the Museum, learn about the tradition of leis and their importance to Hawaiian culture, and pay tribute to a loved one by creating your own lei.
