Why one historian uses social media to remember D-Day in real time

NPR | By Henry Larson,

Zephyr Weinreich

Published June 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM PDT

At the National World War II Memorial, historian Alex Kershaw has found an unlikely way to keep D-Day alive: live social media posts timed to the events of June 6, 1944.

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