During this series of webinars, in partnership with the National Park Service, we will share new scholarship on the topic of the history of the American World War II home front and its legacies. 

The webinar schedule is as follows:

November 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET - Tim Campbell - “Remembering African American Service a Different Way”

Join Tim Campbell to explore the ways that historical perspective can influence the significance of a historical event while encouraging conversations about engaging in this type of work more with our respective research interests.

November 6, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET - Clarissa Ceglio - “A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums”

The notion of museums as “social instruments”—as storytellers to inspire informed civic action—led to experimentation in the 1930s. But as the nation went to war, progressive practitioners found that the line between purposive education and propaganda was neither as clear nor as easy to walk as they had thought.

November 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET - Jim Belcher, Jr. - Title TBD

Description coming soon! 

November 13, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET - Cassie Tanks - “Fences of War: Spatial Boundaries and Microhistories of WWII”

Description coming soon!