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Camp Van Dorn World War II Museum: Centreville: Wilkinson: Southwest Military website, history of Camp Van Dorn, training camp for 40,000 soldiers in World War II from 1942-1945; has sections on the town of Centreville, the camp, and the war Canton Movie Museums: Canton: Madison: Southwest Media
Amzie Moore (September 23, 1911 – February 1, 1982) was an African-American civil rights leader and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta. He helped lead voter registration efforts. His former home in Cleveland, Mississippi, is a Mississippi Landmark. A historical marker commemorates its history. [1] It is now a museum and interpretive center.
World War II museums in Hawaii (5 P) Pages in category "World War II museums in the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Robert M. Citino (born June 19, 1958) is an American military historian and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at the National WWII Museum.He is an authority on modern German military history, with an emphasis on World War II and the German influence upon modern operational doctrine.
This list of museum ships in North America is a list of notable museum ships located in the continent of North America and it may include ones in overseas parts of Canada and the United States. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly, but is intended to be limited to substantial (large) ships or, in a few cases, very notable ...
The museum contained 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m 2) of exhibits, 17,000 artifacts, 4,500 volumes of military history, and 2,000 historical documents. In February 2015, the museum was closed for expansion. The expansion increased the museum space by 7,500 sq ft (700 m 2 ), added three new exhibition galleries, and remodeled older exhibits.
The Mississippi Children’s Museum is also expanding its after-school program, which currently serves more than 130 students in Jackson and Meridian, to include programs such as architecture ...
The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, 20 miles (32 km) of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile (26 km) tour road, a 12.5-mile (20.1 km) walking trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USS Cairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal site, where the Union Army attempted to build a canal to let their ships ...