Learn more about the Medal of Honor recipient and Museum friend.  
 

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. 

Two months before Pearl Harbor, a sailor became Louisiana's first fatality 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.

As the "Hinge of Fate" was turning across the globe, Operation Torch became the US military's first step toward defeat of Nazi Germany in Europe.

With a glimpse of Stalin's grave in Red Square, a brutal legacy rewinds. 

A French writer fleeing Paris in June 1940 has a nervous first encounter with the enemy. 

In a cemetery outside Warsaw, Marxist-Leninist theory meets the course of history. 

Leon Werth captures the chaos and uncertainty that preceded the Nazis into Paris. 

George Kennan is most known for his diplomatic work following World War II, as the Soviet Union imposed an Iron Curtain on the states of Eastern Europe and Cold War tensions began. But Kennan's writings during World War II give the eerie account of a region on the precipice of Nazi conquest.

Marking the centennial of the Russian Revolution with a photographic flashback to Red Square.  

Ferguson’s short passage has some deep, important lessons and implications for how to think of the world we inhabit.