D-Day+80 Commemoration Events
June 1: Symphony at Sunset Annual D-Day Commemoration Concert
June 4-6: World War II Emerging Scholars Symposium
June 6: Remembrance Ceremony and Veterans Spotlight
Be sure to visit the D-Day Remembered - Photographs by Fabrice Bourge photo exhibition located in the Museum across from the Special Exhibits Gallery.
Symphony at Sunset Annual D-Day Commemoration Concert
Saturday, June 1, 2024
(Rain date: Sunday, June 2)
Commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day at this meaningful outdoor concert held on our beautiful campus grounds. This annual concert is held the first Saturday in June in partnership with the Salina Symphony and Eisenhower Foundation. Plus, free museum admission all day!
Now accepting food vendor applications!
Contact us for application details.
Presenting sponsors:
- Community Foundation of Dickinson County
- Marshall Motors
- Friends of the Eisenhower Foundation
Stars & Stripes sponsors:
- Kansas Gas Service
- Vyve Broadband
WWII Emerging Scholars Symposium
The Eisenhower, Roosevelt, and Truman Presidential Libraries host an annual emerging scholars symposium to commemorate D-Day. This virtual symposium focuses on specialized topics related to the Allied effort during World War II. Each program wraps up with a Scholar Spotlight where we get to know a little bit more about each of these up and coming scholars.
2024: Waging Peace
June 4-6
The 2024 virtual symposium will be held the first week of June. Topics should explore the various global and domestic peace seeking efforts from 1932 until 1949. This can range from the American attempts at negotiating a ceasefire in Manchuria to Truman’s push for ending conflict and the implementation of the Marshall plan under General Eisenhower.
Each presentation is scheduled for one hour. The guest speaker will present their topic for approximately 40 minutes allowing time for audience participation and questions at the end. Each program wraps up with a Scholar Spotlight where we get to know a little bit more about each of these up and coming scholars.
Submission packets should include the presentation abstract, applicant contact information, education status and academic goals summary. Email submission packets to andrea.murphy@nara.gov with the subject line D-Day Symposium no later than April 21, 2024. Selected participants will be notified May 15 and will receive a modest honorarium.
2023: Difficult Decisions: Beyond the Battlefield
- Keynote Speaker Linda Hervieux
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War -
Christopher McNulty
A Special Compliment to our Allies from the United States of America: the Visiting Forces Act and Anglo-American relations, 1942 -
Benjamin Schneider, Ph.D.
No Good Options: Eisenhower, American War Crimes, and the Legacy of the Second World War -
Rob Williams, Ph.D.
Our Problem Children: Masculinity and the Airborne in World War II -
Jared T. Frederick
Dispatches of D-Day: Freedom of the Press and the Normandy Invasion
2022: Here Is Your War: Military, Press, and Homefront Visions of War
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Thomas Arnold
Learning How to Love America in 1941: Building the US Army's WWII Public Relations Machine -
Tyler Bamford, Ph.D.
The Spoils Of War: US Soldiers' Souvenirs of World War II in Wartime Reporting -
Ryan Poff
Unduly Harrowing": Film Media Portrayals of Combat in World War II -
Nataliia Zalietok
Periodicals As a Source For the Research on the Women's Service in the Soviet Armed Forces (1941-1945)
2021: Unsung Heroes and Lesser-Known Subjects
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Hannah Palsa
Children and Dogs for Defense -
Jorden Pitt
Flight Neuroses in World War II -
Kendall Cosley
How D-Day Shaped GI Joe -
Amanda Hess
Flight Nursing in WWII
Eisenhower's Order of the Day
June 6, 1944
INVASION OF NORMANDY, FRANCE
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