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PT-305 Dedication and Veteran Ride
Learn MoreRestoration volunteers and WWII veterans gather to relaunch PT-305 on her home waters of Lake Pontchartrain.
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The Double V Victory
Learn MoreDuring World War II, African Americans made tremendous sacrifices in an effort to trade military service and wartime support for measurable social, political, and economic gains. As never before, local black communities throughout the nation participated enthusiastically in wartime programs while intensifying their demands for social progress.
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The Home Front
Learn MoreWhen we think of World War II, the first images that enter our minds usually involve battle: armies fighting their desperate struggles on land, huge navies patrolling the oceans, and aircraft soaring sleekly overhead.
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Free Teacher Professional Development Webinar
11/08/2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMLouisiana in World War II Teacher Professional Development Webinar
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The Great Debate
Learn MoreFrom our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. Even as the war consumed large portions of Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was no clear consensus on how the United States should respond.
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High School Life at Rohwer War Relocation Center
Learn MoreRohwer War Relocation Center in McGehee, Arkansas, was created to educate the children of Japanese American descent who were forced from their homes along the West Coast of the United States and required to live behind barbed wire for the duration of WWII, far from the homes they knew.
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Gender on the Home Front
Learn MoreWartime needs increased labor demands for both male and female workers, heightened domestic hardships and responsibilities, and intensified pressures for Americans to conform to social and cultural norms.
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The Four Freedoms
Learn MoreIn January of 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined a vision of the future in which people the world over could enjoy four essential freedoms. This vision persisted throughout World War II and came to symbolize the ideals behind the rights of humanity and the pursuit of peace in a postwar world.
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Japanese American Incarceration
Learn MoreAt the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, about 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived on the US mainland, mostly along the Pacific Coast. About two thirds were full citizens, born and raised in the United States. Following the Pearl Harbor attack, however, a wave of antiJapanese suspicion and fear led the Roosevelt administration to adopt a drastic policy toward these residents, alien and citizen alike.
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Training the American GI
Learn MoreAs the United States prepared for war, military leaders had a long list of needs—guns, tanks, ships, and equipment of every kind. One of the things they needed most of all, however, was people.
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Bayou to Battlefield: Higgins Industries during World War II
Learn MoreA new permanent exhibit celebrating Higgins Industries and its charismatic leader, Andrew Jackson Higgins.
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The Original Stage Door Canteen
Learn MoreWhere could a GI enjoy the best big bands, dance with the ladies, and rub elbows with the likes of Marlene Dietrich? Only at the Stage Door Canteen.