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:
2011 Lunchbox Lecture Schedule
| January 5 | 14 July 1941: An Act of Resistance in Alsace |
Frank Anselmo
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| January 19 | The 99th Infantry Division’s Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon at Lanzerath: December 16, 1944 |
Seth Paridon
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| February 2 | Polish Fighter Pilots in the Battle of Britain | George Cholewczynski |
| February 16 | The Death of the Torpedo Squadrons at Midway | John McGuckin |
| March 2 | The Treatment of POWs during World War II | Guenter Bischof |
| March 16 | World War II and the Mobilization of the American South | Charles Chamberlain |
| April 6 | Tarawa Bloody Tarawa | Rick Jacobs |
| April 20 | Holocaust Memorial Books | Kimberly Guise |
| May 4 | Sex and WWII: Prostitutes and Prophylactics | Toni Kiser |
| May 18 | Propaganda and Persuasion: Poster Art during World War II | Lindsey Barnes |
| June 1 | The Vought F4U “Corsair” | Ross Gamble |
| June 15 | The Marianas Campaign: Saipan and the Battle of the Philippine Sea | Seth Paridon |
| July 6 | We Also Danced To…The Other Popular Music of Wartime | Kevin Fontenot |
| July 20 | The M1 Garand | John McGuckin |
| August 3 | Audie Murphy | Stephen Tucker |
| August 17 | The Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia during World War II | Andrew Goss |
| September 7 | 1936 Olympics | Nathan Huegen |
| September 21 | An Impossible Victory: The Battle of Samar | Eric Rivet |
| October 5 | The Actual Atomic Threat Posed by the Nazis |
Stan Chiocchio
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| October 19 | FDR’s Four Freedoms | Kenneth Hoffman |
| November 2 | Operation Dracula: Burma in WWII | Walt Burgoyne |
| November 16 | Artillery in World War II | Tom Czekanski |
| December 7 | Pearl Harbor | Meg Roussel |
| December 21 | Rommel | Rick Jacobs |
* Dates and topics subject to change
Here is a list of past 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 |
TAKE ACTION:
WHAT'S ON:
February 8, 2012
Film Screening: "They Were Expendable" (1945)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Stage Door Canteen
February 8, 2012
The Victory Belles present "Lullaby of Broadway"
12:00 pm buffet seating
Stage Door Canteen
Broadway hits from the 1940s
February 14, 2012
The Victory Big Band presents "Valentine's Dine and Dance"
6:00 pm dinner seating, 8:00 pm show only ticket
Stage Door Canteen
February 15, 2012
Lunchbox Lecture
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Gemma Birnbaum presents "Double Victory: Black WWII Veterans and the Struggle for Civil Rights"
February 15, 2012
The Victory Belles present "Lullaby of Broadway"
12:00 pm buffet seating
Stage Door Canteen
Broadway hits from the 1940s
February 16, 2012
Virtual Field Trip
9:00 am – 10:00 am
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