The concluding "room" of FDR’s Washington, DC, memorial underscores a poignant connection to Thomas Jefferson.

World War II touched virtually every part of American life, even things so simple as the food people ate, the films they watched, and the music they listened to.

Early on in World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, one of Adolf Hitler’s top lieutenants, said that Americans could only make refrigerators and razor blades—they would never be able to produce the military equipment and supplies necessary to defeat Nazi Germany. Hitler took the same view in his public speeches, but privately he knew the clock was ticking. Germany would have to achieve victory fast, before American production had time to ramp up.

Bernice Frankel's Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl's WWII service history. 

Personal correspondence offers an intimate glimpse of a world at war.

The Oscars host for the ages presided over the 1943 ceremony. 

Honoring a resistance icon who fought the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. 

Meet America's oldest National Park Ranger—a wartime Home Front worker profiled in the Museum's 2018 Electronic Field Trip about African American Experiences in World War II. 

Starlet Alma Carroll barnstormed the country to raise money for the war effort with Bob Hope, Cary Grant, Laurel and Hardy, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, and others.

An unlikely victory by a tiny Rapides Parish school in a statewide Louisiana “scrapping” drive during World War II left a lasting legacy.