Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938.

By making the USS Indianapolis story a central plot point in Jaws, director Steven Spielberg introduced the story of the ship and its survivors to a wide audience, and with that larger audience came close scrutiny of how filmmakers told the story.

Photo Caption (Pictured left – right): Filmmaker Tom Hanks, journalist and producer Robin Roberts, WWII veteran Paul Hilliard, and actor ...

Photo Caption: Officials from The National WWII Museum, the State of Louisiana, and special guests attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at ...

This month, we explore how the Nazi campaign against “degenerate” modernist art and music can help students use Visual Thinking Strategies as a way to observe and think critically about art, as well as teach them how culture plays into times of war.