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The National WWII Museum Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
Museum pays tribute to historic battle with special art exhibit, free public programming and educational travel tours in Normandy
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A Place of Our Own: Mexican American Veterans in the Post-War Southwest
World War II was a watershed moment for Mexican Americans and their quest for equality—during the war, Mexican Americans served in the military and worked on the Home Front to support their country, and therefore, when it ended, were no longer willing to accept second-class citizenship.
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Lunchbox Lecture: "The Development of Be-Bop" by David Kunian, New Orleans Jazz Museum
The days of World War II correlated with a new and radical direction in jazz. Dissatisfied swing musicians devised a new jazz that was faster, angular, virtuosic, and dissonant.
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A Rendezvous with Destiny: FDR and Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had the most complex and historically significant friendship of the 20th century.
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Meet the Author: Marthe Cohn
An evening of courage, faith, and espionage with a 96-year-old French Jewish Spy.
Past Events
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Operation Olympic: The Climactic Invasion of Southern Japan...That Never Happened
07/30/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMCurator Larry Decuers will take a look at the proposed plan to invade Kyushu, code-named Olympic, that was slated to take place on November 1, 1945, and what the Japanese response may have looked like.
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The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl
07/23/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMAlexander Watson, author of The Fortress, tells the story of World War I's epic battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary for the eastern European fortress of Przemysl.
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Fighting for Equality: African American Men in Combat in the World Wars
07/15/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMScholars of African American military history and war and society, John Morrow, PhD; Robert Jefferson, PhD; and Jeffrey Sammons, PhD, will offer their insights about these important topics.
