MLive: ‘King: A Life’ MLK Day event kicks off Calvin University’s January lecture series
‘King: A Life’ MLK Day event kicks off Calvin University’s January lecture series
A three-day lecture and dialogue series will be held at The University of Colorado Boulder in celebration of Juneteenth starting today (June 16). CU Boulder’s Dialogues program organized a three-day ...
Mississippi State University: ‘Civic duty in modern society’ focus of MSU’s Constitution Day lecture
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Brian Shoup, professor and head of Mississippi State’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, delivers this year’s Constitution Day lecture as part of the Lamar ...
V-J Day is typically seen as the final end of World War II. Adding complexity, however, is another date that receives little recognition today: , more than a year after Japan’s surrender. This was the date of Truman’s announcement of “a proclamation terminating the period of hostilities of World War II.” By doing so, Truman formally ended 53 “war and emergency ...
D-Day Initially set for June 5, D-Day was delayed due to poor weather. With a small window of opportunity in the weather, Eisenhower decided to go—D-Day would be . Paratroopers began landing after midnight, followed by a massive naval and aerial bombardment at 6:30 a.m. American forces faced severe resistance at Omaha and Utah ...
Despite their early agreement on a strategy focused on defeating “Germany First,” the US and British Allies engaged in a lengthy and divisive debate over how exactly to conduct this strategy before they finally settled on a plan for Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day—a day now known as the greatest amphibious landing in history—The National WWII Museum will explore the epic battle through events on Thursday, June 6, and Friday, , on its campus in New Orleans.