Beneath the Bayou: A Macro-Mystery
Join educators from the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation as they dip nets in the waters of New Orleans to discover little fish, tadpoles and other animals.
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Keeping the Country Going: A Conversation with Anne Keene about Baseball and World War II
Author Anne Keene joins Jason Dawsey, PhD, from the Museum's Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, for a discussion of her new book, The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
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Skies over D-Day
Join us for a virtual planetarium show in partnership with the Boston Museum of Science to see the night sky as they saw it on June 6, 1944, on the beaches of France.
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From Recovery to Restoration: Bringing World War II's Lost Aircraft Back to Life
Join the RAF Museum's Ian Thirsk and Darren Priday as they discuss with the Museum's Seth Paridon and Ed Lengel, PhD, the challenges and excitement of recovering and preserving these historic war birds.
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"It's Your America:" The 1940 Census Today
The 1940 census forms a critical link to our shared past and provides a window into an American world only one year away from being engulfed by war.
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"The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer" with Jennet Conant and Ed Lengel, PhD
09/17/2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMJoin us for a special evening program as Jennet Conant, the author of five books on World War II, shares her latest, which is the gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.
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Highlights from The National WWII Museum Education Collection
09/17/2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMWhile the Museum’s popular, hands-on Operation: Footlocker program is currently suspended due to the pandemic, students can still get a close-up look at WWII artifacts as they explore highlights from the Museum’s Education Collection of artifacts and primary sources in this hour-long webinar.
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Lunchbox Lecture: "Operation: Magic Carpet" by Collin Makamson
09/16/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJoin us for a digital Lunchbox Lecture about the last great troop movement of World War II—Operation: Magic Carpet.
