This program is presented by The Institute for the Study of War & Democracy with generous support from the Strake Foundation.

Omer Bartov’s Anatomy of a Genocide is a fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another—as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.

Join us to hear how Winston Churchill, crowned “the Greatest Briton” per a British television poll conducted in 2002, contributed to the greatest invasion from one of the country’s leading authors and historians, Craig L. Symonds.

With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer’s scrupulous research reveals the heartbreaking voices and experiences of many of these children, while also illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality, and biological defects—labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.

In the tradition of Agent Zigzag, author Paul Kix explores the life of unsung French WWII Resistance hero Robert de la Rochefoucauld in The Saboteur, an emotionally intuitive biography. This program is presented by The Institute for the Study of War & Democracy with generous support from the Strake Foundation.

On the anniversary of V-E Day, come hear an original and penetrating assessment of President Dwight D. Eisenhower from one of the country’s preeminent scholars, William I. Hitchcock, PhD, as he discusses Ike’s enormous influence on modern America, the Cold War, and on the presidency itself.

Join us as we hear from Stanford Professor Robert Hamrdla, a world traveler and expert in German studies.

Join us for a conversation with David Woolner, PhD, Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian at the Roosevelt Institute, as he paints a revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency.

Watch the February 21, 2018, panel presentation featuring respected historians and WWII veterans. 

Join us for an evening discussion with author Mark Moyar, PhD, on the WWII roots of America’s most secretive portion of our military: the Special Forces.