In 1919, black activist and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois rendered a startling observation about the American landscape after World War One. After returning from Europe where he witnessed the employment of black soldiers in Europe, the venerable editor of the NAACP’s Magazine the Crisis published an editorial in which he chronicled the American racial politics and attitudes toward African Americans during the war.

As part of its 2017 Research Programme, the RAF Museum is seeking proposals from postgraduate students, early-career and established researchers for their lecture series.

These series consists of: The Trenchard Lectures in Air Power Studies held in conjunction with the Royal Aeronautical Society and the University of Wolverhampton in London and Wolverhampton respectively; The First World War in the Air Lunchtime Lectures at RAF Museum London; and The Cold War Lunchtime Lectures at RAF Museum Cosford.

Few events are so ingrained into the American psyche and popular culture as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite the attack’s centrality in America’s road to war narrative, most Americans know very little about the causes of the event. Our abridged understanding goes something like this: on December 7, 1941, the empire of Japan launched a sneak attack against the United States for no reason. Japan’s ambassadors had been engaged in discussions with American diplomats as a smokescreen, masking the “evil empire’s” true intentions—world domination.

Ein wesentliches Ziel des Arbeitskreises "Welt- und globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht" der Konferenz für Geschichtsdidaktik (KGD) ist die Entwicklung globalgeschichtlicher Perspektiven für den kompetenzorientierten Geschichtsunterricht. Insbesondere geht es darum, neuere globalgeschichtliche Ansätze und Konzepte für den Geschichtsunterricht fruchtbar zu machen.