The National WWII Museum has presented more than 180 Lunchbox Lectures free to the public since 2000. Delivered by local and national scholars, these hour-long lectures are presented twice a month on Wednesdays at noon. The lectures are free, so bring your lunch and learn some WWII history.
Here is a list of upcoming lectures:
2010 Lunchbox Lecture Schedule
| January 6 | Yearbooks |
Kenneth Hoffman
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| January 20 | The Trouble with Torpedoes |
John McGuckin
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| February 3 | Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia: Breaking the Myths | Brian Hughes |
| February 17 | War Brides | Walt Burgoyne |
| March 3 | Japanese Comfort Women | Toni Kiser |
| March 17 | Doolittle Raid | Rick Jacobs |
| April 7 | The Flight from Hitler's Germany: Austrian Jewish Refugees | Guenter Bischof |
| April 21 | FDR's Death: Front Line and Home Front | Terrence Fitzmorris |
| May 5 | Music and Mobilization During WWII | Chas Chamberlain |
| May 19 | Flight Jackets of WWII | Larry Decuers |
| June 2 | Hill K-9 | Frank Anselmo |
| June 16 | Restaurants During WWII | Lauren Tilton |
| July 7 | Animals at War | Walt Burgoyne |
| July 21 | Travels while as a guest of the Third Reich: POW Wartime Logs | Kim Guise |
| August 4 | Country Music and WWII | Kevin Fontenot |
| August 18 | Entartete Kunst: Hitler's "Degenerate Art" Exhibit of 1937 | Lindsey Barnes |
| September 1 | Surrender on the USS Missouri: 65 Years Later | Tommy Lofton |
| September 15 | Night Witches: Women Bomber Pilots of the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment in WWII | Kellie Boutwell |
| October 6 | The Warsaw Uprisings |
Lauren Handley
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| October 20 | Infantry Weapons on Guadalcanal | John McGuckin |
| November 3 | Destroyer Escorts of World War II | Eric Rivet |
| November 17 | The Stuart: America's First Tank in WWII | Tom Czekanski |
| December 1 | Jewish Councils in the Polish Ghettos | Meg Roussel |
| December 15 | Operation Compass - North Africa 1941 | Rick Jacobs |
* Dates and topics subject to change
Here is a list of past lectures:
Lunchbox Lectures 2009
January 21 The Messerschmidt 109 Daniel Becnel
February 4 Victory at Home: Civil Rights in the South WWII Chas Chamberlain
February 18 Nazis on the Run: The Ratline for War Criminals Gerald Steinacher
Through Italy and the Vatican
March 4 Treasures of the Vault Toni Kiser
March 18 The NWWIIM's Artillery Collection Tom Czekanski
April 1 The Chain of Evacuation:The Army Nurse Corps Lauren Handley
April 15 England’s Mediterranean War, June-Dec 1940 Rick Jacobs
May 6 Corporal Hitler, 1914-1918 Kirk Freeman
May 20 Reichsparteitag der Ehre: Lindsey Barnes
The 1936 Nuremberg Rally
June 3 How Rome Affected Normandy, June 1944 Frank Anselmo
June 17 Coast Watchers Walt Burgoyne
July 1 POW Experiences Tommy Lofton
July 15 The FDR Blues Kevin Fontenot
August 5 WASPs - Women's Air Force Service Pilots Kellie Boutwell
August 19 Education - Schools on the Home Front Jen Kitner
September 2 Operation Bernard - The Nazis' Countereiting Kenneth Hoffman
Scheme
September 16 WWII Photography in FDR's New Deal Lauren Tilton
October 7 Examining WWII Cookbooks Lauren Handley
October 21 22nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion John McGuckin
November 4 Backstage Pass: A Look into the Stage Kim Guise
Door Collection
November 18 The Battle of Taranto Rick Jacobs
December 2 Two Bridges Too Far: Operation Market Garden John Mosier
December 16 Commerce Raiders in WWII: A Bittersweet Mark Mod
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