History in a New Light
An Inside Look at Curating Expressions of America
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Louisiana Christmas Day
Spend the holidays Louisiana style as the Victory Belles take us on a musical tour from the raucous Cajun bayous to the splendors of caroling in Jackson Square!
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Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Holocaust By Bullets
Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, Jews were already being murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics.
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A Black Soldier's Letters Home
Join us for a special program highlighting wartime correspondence from James Killion, Jr.
Past Events
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WWI & WWII: The Treaty of Versailles and the Failure of Peace
05/29/2020 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AMA century ago, leaders of the victorious powers in the First World War tried to convert battlefield success into a lasting peace.
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WWI & WWII: 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Innovation
05/28/2020 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AMOne of the deadliest moments in world history was the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic, worsened by the global movements of World War I.
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Ask a Curator: POW Diaries from the European Theater
05/26/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJoin Assistant Director for Curatorial Services Kimberly Guise as she discusses diaries kept by POWs in Europe, especially the "Wartime Logs" provided by the YMCA and distributed by the Red Cross, right into German POW camps.
