WWII Tours: London and Warsaw

What's new in my summer online course

Among the other things keeping me (very!) busy this summer, I’m teaching my World War II course online for the first time. As the calendar turns to a new month, we’ve only got as far as the French surrender to Germany in June 1940. But by the end of the week, the Soviet Union and United States will be part of an uneasy alliance and the Japanese gains in the Pacific will stop at Midway and start to reverse at Guadalcanal.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m having my WWII students do some virtual travel as part of the course. For example, this Wednesday they can spend half an hour looking around what’s available on the National Park Service website for the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. But my favorite version of that assignment is to take them on simulated “walking” tours of five European cities affected by the war, embedding short videos into digital StoryMaps.

As a special bonus for paid subscribers, I’m sharing links to those tours. I started last month with Munich, the birthplace of National Socialism. This week, two more cities get the walking tour treatment…