On February 3, 1945, the US Army sent over 800 black women overseas to England aboard the SS Ile de France. Their mission unknown to them.

This new series features master’s student papers from the University of New Orleans. The first submission delves into American memory of World War II.

African American truck drivers of the Red Ball Express kept American units supplied in the race across France during the summer and fall of 1944.

Today we pause and take the time to reflect on one of the most heinous atrocities committed in the twentieth century. The Holocaust has left a dark shadow on human history and lives in the memories of the Survivors.

The Museum highlights educational resources for teachers and students that can be used to explore the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Prior to 1933, Bavarian authorities devised an entire system for policing and persecuting Roma.

In what was described as a “homey little ceremony on the back porch of the White House,” Franklin Roosevelt entered into his fourth term as President with stoic optimism.

On January 20, 1942, a group of Nazi leaders met to coordinate a continent-wide genocide.

A stalemate on the Gustav Line in January 1944 brought about one of the more controversial Allied decisions of Italian campaign.

As the leader of Einsatzgruppe D, Otto Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of 90,000 Soviet Jews, Roma, and Communists.