NCPH and NPS “WWII and the Home Front” webinar to include UConn’s Clarissa Ceglio on January 23rd

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The online webinar series presented by the National Council on Public History and National Park Service is called “World War II and the Home Front” and will start January 22nd and end January 30th. Professor Ceglio is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UConn and will present a talk that will include tips for those who want to delve into their local museum or historical society’s war history. She will trace how the notion of museums as “social instruments” led to experimentation in the 1930s and how once WWII began, progressive museum practitioners found that the line between purposive education and propaganda was not as clear or as easy to walk as they had thought. Her talk will be January 23rd, 2:00 pm EST, entitled “A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums.”

grey flyer with red lettering saying World War II and the Home Front

Registration is free, and can be found along with details about the other three presentations here:

WWII and the Home Front- National Council on Public History