Historical fiction has a power all its own to communicate experiences of war and atrocity.

On display November 11, 2024, through August 24, 2025, in the Senator John Alario, Jr. Special Exhibition Hall The National WWII Mus...

Kate Fitzgerald is the Distance Learning Manager at The National WWII Museum and has been with the Museum since 2018. 

NEW ORLEANS (September 5, 2009) – The National World War II Museum in New Orleans has announced a significant gift from the family whose ...

From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. Even as the war consumed large portions of Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was no clear consensus on how the United States should respond.