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.

Jackie Robinson is best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Less well known, but just as pivotal, is his 1944 court-martial after refusing to move to the back of a military bus.

A look past the pages of a written letter home.

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.

Sgt. Thomas Sweeney, 71st Infantry Division, was one of the many American medics and liberators who found themselves woefully underprepared in rendering aid to survivors of Nazi atrocities. At the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp in May 1945, they found thousands of individuals barely clinging to life.

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.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and in celebration of The National WWII Museum’s new exhibit Dimensions in Testimony: Alan Moskin, the New Orleans Public Library has created a supplemental reading list to accompany the exhibition.

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.

Dabney Montgomery, 1051st Quartermaster Service Group Aviation Company of the 96th Air Service Group attached to the 332d Fighter Group, served in southern Italy as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.