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July 4, 1941: FDR's Address to the Nation
From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s perspective in the White House, democracy was under attack overseas and at home in mid-1941.
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USS Mason: First in its Class
USS Mason was the first US Navy fleet vessel crewed by a majority of African American sailors.
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St. Louis, July 12, 1973: A Disaster with Long-Lasting Repercussions
In 1973 a devastating fire in the National Personnel Records Center destroyed about 17 million military personnel files. A loss with long-lasting repercussions, it affects our understanding and knowledge of many individual WWII stories.
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Opal Grapes, Army Nurse Corps
Opal Grapes was one of more than 59,000 nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. Her recollections highlight the highs and lows of nursing wounded men.
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The Sinking of the HMT Rohna
Classified for 50 years, the sinking of the HMT Rohna remains one of the least known—yet most catastrophic—events of World War II.
Past Events
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Naturalization Ceremony
07/07/2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMJoin us in recognizing new American citizens during a special naturalization ceremony.
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Lunchbox Lecture: “Sicily 1943: Patton vs. Montgomery vs. the Wehrmacht”
07/05/2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMJoin Captain Rick Jacobs as he discusses the three-sided battle in Sicily between the US Seventh Army, the British Eighth Army and the German XIV Panzer Corps in July 1943.
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Dinner with a Curator: “The Art of War: Army Artists on the Battlefield”
06/27/2023 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PMNot all soldiers fight with weapons. In World War II, some fought with pencils, brushes, and sketch pads.
