A new permanent exhibit celebrating Higgins Industries and its charismatic leader, Andrew Jackson Higgins.

President & CEO Emeritus Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller, PhD, remembers "a great man and a great friend." 

“Words alone cannot restore lost years”

The war correspondent and the entertainer shared a mission to connect with those in service during World War II.  

How the classic holiday musical White Christmas reveals the impact of military service in World War II.

From gas rationing to gas crisis!

The Civilian Conservation Corps camps: From tree soldiers to real soldiers.

 A tribute to the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at The National WWII Museum.

A newly released memo sheds light on Japanese Emperor Hirohito's role in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

Fighting World War II presented daunting military obstacles overseas, but it also involved serious challenges for American communities on the Home Front. Men and women from across the country left home to enter defense industry jobs, government service, and the military, all of which left many vacancies in local businesses, hospitals, schools, governments, and other institutions. Moreover, even with the US military fighting on two fronts, officials back home still wanted to protect their citizens from sabotage and surprise attacks. Pearl Harbor had made that need especially clear. Not least of all, the federal government had plans for conserving food and fuel and for finding enough workers to keep defense industries going, but it could not do all of these jobs alone. The public had to understand what was at stake and how they could help. For the United States to become “the great arsenal of democracy,” American communities had to be united behind the war effort.