Liberty: The Louisiana Home Front through Historical Fiction Student Webinar

Cost: Free

Join Museum educators and Newberry Honor-winning author Kirby Larson to explore the history behind her new novel Liberty, which chronicles the story of two friends who rescue a stray dog in WWII-era New Orleans. Fish, a young aspiring inventor with a dad fighting overseas, develops a friendship across racial lines with his neighbor Olympia. They name their new rescue Liberty, and along the way Fish encounters important lessons about race and war from friends, neighbors, and even famed boat builder Andrew Higgins. Museum educators will uncover the history that inspired these compelling passages so your students can understand wartime experiences of not just young Louisianans, but all Americans.

Perfect for grades 3 – 7. All participants can purchase copies of Liberty from the Museum’s online store for a 20% discount. Use the code WEBINAR on the checkout screen. Teachers will receive related curriculum materials upon registering.

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Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro present The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

5:00 p.m. Reception  |  6:00 p.m. Presentation  |  7:00 p.m. Book Signing

On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year, the treaty signed that day, known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact, had been ratified by nearly every nation in the world. War, for the first time in history, had become illegal the world over. But the promise of that summer day was fleeting. Within a decade of its signing, each nation that had gathered in Paris to renounce war was at war. And in the century that followed, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was dismissed as an act of folly and an unmistakable failure. This book argues that that understanding is inaccurate, and that the Kellogg-Briand Pact ushered in a sustained march toward peace that lasts to this day.

The Internationalists examines with renewed appreciation an international system that has outlawed wars of aggression and brought unprecedented stability to the world map. Accessible and gripping, this book will change the way we view the history of the twentieth century—and how we must work together to protect the global order the internationalists fought to make possible.