Beulah Dugas Day
A Home Front worker, featured in the traveling exhibit The Pelican State Goes to War, visits The National WWII Museum.
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‘This War Ends in a Courtroom’: Nuremberg (2025) and the Real Trials
Nuremberg and the real Nuremberg Trials illustrate how the Allies sought to end World War II with justice, using law rather than vengeance to rebuild the postwar world.
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The ‘Band of Brothers’ That Wasn’t
Though the 52 men inducted with Company I in 1940 rendered excellent service, their “band of brothers” did not endure much past their first months in combat.
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Press Release
The National WWII Museum Announces 2017 Winston S. Churchill Symposium
On March 18, The National WWII Museum and The Churchill Society of New Orleans will bring scholars from across the globe to the Museum in New Orleans to give insights and lectures on the life and work of Winston Churchill. The 2017 Winston S. Churchill Symposium will feature a day of enriching discussion and discovery, all focused on one of the most important figures in modern history.
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"Hitler’s Monsters"
Author Eric Kurlander offers A Supernatural History of the Third Reich.
Past Events
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The Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture on World War II: Iwo Jima in the History of the US Marine Corps
02/18/2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMOn the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, join Charles Neimeyer, PhD, as he discusses the history of the US Marine Corps and its ties to this defining battle. Neimeyer recently retired as Director of Marine Corps History and the Gray Research Center at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
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Yalta at 75: From World War to Cold War Symposium (SOLD OUT)
02/08/2020 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMJoin leading scholars for a daylong discussion about the Yalta Conference—from the run-up to the conference, the proceedings themselves, to the legacies of Yalta for the postwar world, for the Cold War, and for our own day.
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Meet the Author: Elizabeth Fox
02/06/2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PMJoin us for a conversation with author Elizabeth Fox presenting her book We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Story in Letters, which tells the story of a first-generation Jewish American couple separated by war. After decades of gathering dust, their words have been carefully transcribed and thoughtfully edited and annotated by Fox, the couple’s daughter.
