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"See You Next Year" High School Yearbooks in World War II
By flipping the pages of a high school yearbook from the 1940s, students today can catch a glimpse of what their counterparts were doing on the Home Front and how the war impacted their daily lives, especially for those preparing to graduate.
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Emerging Scholars: The Ghosts of Past and Present: Analyzing American WWII Memory
This new series features master’s student papers from the University of New Orleans. The first submission delves into American memory of World War II.
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Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town in Poland 1897-1939
On September 27, 2008, The National World War II Museum will welcome the exhibit Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town in Poland ... -
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A Marshall Plan for Wartime Destruction in Ukraine?
In an address to the Harvard graduating class on June 5, 1947, General George C. Marshall called for a European Recovery Plan for war torn Europe. Marshall’s call, and the Marshall Plan that bears his name, continues to resonate today with respect to the war in Ukraine and the need to rebuild in its aftermath.
Past Events
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Travel Webinar: Victory in Europe: The End of the War on the Elbe with Dr. Alexandra Richie
08/08/2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMJoin The National WWII Museum's Educational Travel Team and historian Alexandra Richie to learn about this new cruise and tour commemorating the 80th anniversary of V-E Day.
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Meet the Author: Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army"
07/25/2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJoin us in conversation with Mark Calhoun, PhD, author of General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the US Army, an in-depth study of the man who contributed so substantially to America’s war preparedness that George C. Marshall once called him “the brains of the Army.”
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Our War Too: Women in Service
11/11/2023 - 07/21/2024Our War Too: Women in Service is a groundbreaking special exhibit honoring the nearly 350,000 American women who answered the call to serve their country during World War II.