Lectures

  • The Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Distinguished Lecture on World War II: Iwo Jima in the History of the US Marine Corps

    02/18/2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, join Charles Neimeyer, PhD, as he discusses the history of the US Marine Corps and its ties to this defining battle. Neimeyer recently retired as Director of Marine Corps History and the Gray Research Center at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.

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  • Meet the Author: Richard B. Frank

    03/03/2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Join us as we host the launch of military historian Richard B. Frank’s new book Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia–Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937–May 1942. This new work casts penetrating light on how struggles in Europe and Asia merged into a tightly entwined global war.

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  • Meet the Author: Elizabeth Fox

    02/06/2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Join us for a conversation with author Elizabeth Fox presenting her book We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Story in Letters, which tells the story of a first-generation Jewish American couple separated by war. After decades of gathering dust, their words have been carefully transcribed and thoughtfully edited and annotated by Fox, the couple’s daughter.

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  • Meet the Author: Debbie Cenziper

    01/09/2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Learn the gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the US Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War II.

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  • Meet the Author: Colonel Gregory Fontenot, USA (Ret.)

    12/17/2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Gregory Fontenot, a retired colonel of the US Army, will discuss his latest work on an unheralded unit that helped blunt the German offensive known as “the Battle of the Bulge.”

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  • Meet the Author: Elisa Segrave

    11/13/2019 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

    Author Elisa Segrave shares her mother’s remarkable experiences working at the famous codebreaking site of Bletchley Park and with the RAF Bomber Command, as well as her own journey researching and writing of her mother’s untold wartime service.

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  • Exhibit Opening for "Remembered Light"

    11/21/2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Join us for the opening of our newest special exhibit Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II, the McDonald Windows.

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  • Hunting a Nazi: An Evening with Neal Bascomb

    11/12/2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    Join The National WWII Museum as we welcome author Neal Bascomb in a discussion on his works based on the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann.

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