World War II Classes for Adults

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How Edith Wharton, writing in France after the First World War, dissected the tiny 1870s New York society that raised her — and made silence the sharpest weapon in fiction.

The Second World War was won in the factory and paid for at the kitchen table. This is the economic history behind the front line: how the United States became the ‘arsenal of democracy,’ how war bond

Germany and Japan won the opening battles; the Allies won the war. That gap is the whole subject of this course. Below the famous battles sits a quieter layer — the operational and strategic levels, w

The Second World War wasn’t won by wonder-weapons or a single ‘best tank.’ It was won by combined arms — infantry, armour, artillery, and air power fused by intelligence and logistics. A clear-eyed lo

The Eastern Front read the way strategists read it — at the level of operations. Building on a general knowledge of WWII, you'll follow Barbarossa's flawed assumptions, the failure before Moscow, Stal

Trace the European war from the invasion of Poland to the fall of Berlin — and confront the fact that the German army was destroyed somewhere most of us don't picture. You'll be able to explain how Ge

Follow the Pacific war from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay — and see why almost everything about it was decided by one thing: the sheer size of the ocean. You'll understand why the carrier displaced the ba

Follow the Great War from the assassination in Sarajevo to the armistice of 1918, using the photographs and documents the war left behind. You'll understand how alliances dragged the world into indust

The documented life of Marie Curie: from clandestine study in occupied Poland to the discovery of radioactivity, two Nobel Prizes won against prejudice and scandal, tonnes of pitchblende boiled in a leaky shed, the unknown dangers of radium, her mobile X-ray units of the First World War, and the scientific dynasty she founded.

A century of the tank, from the mud of the Somme through the icons of World War II to the modern main battle tank confronting drones.

The deadliest conflict in human history, in one hour.

World War II — told through real, archival public-domain images.