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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Dr. John Mosier
Deathride
Pulitzer Prize nominated-author Dr. John Mosier discusses Deathride, a provocative revisionist analysis of the war between Hitler and Stalin. Dr. Mosier provides a dramatic narrative of events as he shows how most previous histories accepted Stalin’s lies and distortions to produce a false sense of Soviet triumph.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Richard Snow
A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Bruce Gamble
Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific January 1942-1943
Lt. Bruce Gamble discusses his book Fortress Rabaul describes the dramatic events that contributed to Rabaul’s increasing notoriety, detailing the island’s transformation into the ultimate 20th century fortification.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
"Where Were You on VE Day?"
Panelists discuss their first-hand experiences of the bittersweet celebration of Victory in Europe on the 65th anniversary of VE Day.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Elizabeth Bettina
It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust
It Happened in Italy, and Ursula Selig, who was hidden by Italians during World War II, speak about the Jewish population of Italy and the Italians that saved them from the Holocaust.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Hugh Ambrose
The Pacific
Author Hugh Ambrose, former vice-president of The National WWII Museum and current special consultant to the Museum, speaks about his book, The Pacific, and his work on the HBO miniseries of the same name.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Gerhard Weinberg
Visions of Victory: New Boundaries for the World
“Visions of Victory” explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious. While the leaders primarily focused their attention on the strategy for fighting and winning the war, these very decisions were often shaped by their aspirations and hopes for the future. Dr. Weinberg assesses how subsequent events were impacted by these decisions and discusses how these visions for the future changed and evolved throughout the war.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
65th Anniversary of Iwo Jima
Veterans Panel: Mike Mervosh and Jim Goodrich
Mike Mervosh retired from the Marine Corps with the rank of Sergeant Major, after serving over 35 years in the United States Marine Corps. Mike is a veteran of 3 wars, having served with the 4th Marine Division in WWII landings at Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. He returned to service in Korea where he fought with the 1st Marine Division for two years. Mike served two tours of combat in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division before finally retiring in the 70’s.
Jim Goodrich enlisted in the Marines at the ripe age of 16. His first assignment was to the 2nd Marine Division, which he fought with on Guadalcanal and also Tarawa as a BAR man. Having served his tour of duty, young Goodrich was sent home for the duration of the war. That respite was to be short lived as only a few months later he was ordered to the fledgling 5th Marine Division to serve as cadre. Goodrich joined the 5th in the States and departed with his new unit across the Pacific where he made the landing at Iwo Jima. Jim landed at Red Beach 1, H-Hour, first wave, on February 19, 1945.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Dennis Showalter, Ph.D.
Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks That Revolutionized Warfare
In Hitler’s Panzers, renowned World War II scholar Dennis Showalter presents a comprehensive and unbiased study of Nazi Germany’s armored forces. By delving deeply into a detailed history of the theory, strategy, myths, and realities of Germany’s technologically innovative approach to warfare, Showalter provides a look at the military lessons of the past, and a speculation on how the Panzer ethos may be implemented in the future of international conflict.
Monday, December 7, 2009
James Bradley
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name.
Exactly one hundred years later, in the summer of 2005, James Bradley-author of the New York Times bestsellers Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and found surprising hidden history in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul.
In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident and made secret agreements that he thought would secure America's westward push into the Pacific. Instead, he lit the long fuse on the Asian firecrackers that would singe America's hands for a century.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Stephen E. Ambrose Retrospective
These panels illuminate the life and works of Stephen E. Ambrose. Panelists include Hugh Ambrose, Dr. Guenter Bischof, Dr. Richard H. Immerman, Dr. Allan Millett, Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin, and Museum President Dr. Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller.
Click here for video podcast Part 1
Click here for video podcast Part 2
Click here for video podcast Part 3
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Dr. Alan Brinkley
Dr. Alan Brinkley is a Historian and Provost of Columbia University.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Antony Beevor
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Antony James Beevor is a renowned British historian, who studied under the famous historian of World War II, John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for 5 years. He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and 20th century in general.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Robert M. Edsel
The Greatest Art Treasure Hunt and Rescue in History
Robert M. Edsel is the author of The Monuments Men and Rescuing DaVinci and producer of the award-winning documentary The Rape of Europa. His lecture tells the true story of Nazi thieves and the unlikely Allied heroes who saved the world’s greatest works of art. Eight men and one woman - the most unlikely of spies - were in a race to save millions of the world's greatest artistic treasures, including works by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, from destruction by Nazi fanatics. Known as The Monuments Men, their preservation of artistic and cultural treasures was without precedent in scope, in drama, and in danger.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Harley Reynolds
How I Survived Three First-Wave Invasions: North Africa, Sicily, Omaha Beach
Assigned to "B" Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division upon enlistment in December 1940, Harley trained as a rifleman and ultimately was promoted to Staff Sergeant and commanded the Light machine Gun section. Each position he held was because the men ahead of him were either wounded or killed. What made him so lucky?
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Dr. Allan Millett
The Origins of the Forgotten War: Korea 1945 - 1950
Dr. Allan Millett is the Ambrose Professor of History and the Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. A former endowed professor of military history at The Ohio State University (1969—2005), Millett is the winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize in military history. He has already written or edited four books on the Korean War and a fifth is in production. The ROK Ministry of Defense has recognized his work on the Korean War. His lecture is based on Volume I, The War for Korea: A House Burning (University Press of Kansas, 2005).
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Donald L. Miller
Does Bombing Work: The Lessons of Dresden
The John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College, Miller has hosted the series “A Biography of America” on PBS and has appeared in numerous other PBS programs in the “American Experience” series, as well as in programs on the History Channel. He is the author of eight previous books, among them the prize-winning “City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America”, “The Story of World War II”, “D-Days in the Pacific” and “Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany”.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Senator George S. McGovern
Wars Past and Present
The National World War II Museum presents a special appearance by distinguished senator and World War II veteran George S. McGovern. Senator McGovern’s presentation, “Wars Past and Present” will draw parallels between the Civil War, World War II and the world we live in today based on his own experiences as well as his new book, Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Rick Atkinson
Bringing Back the Dead: History, Memory, and Writing About War
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of best sellers "An Army at Dawn" and "The Day of Battle".
These books are the first two volumes of Mr. Atkinson’s trilogy on the U.S. Army in World War II.
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