Join us for a conversation with author G. Kurt Piehler, PhD, and Michael Bell, PhD, Executive Director of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, on Piehler’s book A Religious History of the American GI in World War II.

By John Curatola, PhD, WWII Military Historian, Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, The National WWII Museum

Join Curator Cory Graff as he dives into the strange history of SoCal as America went to war.

A conversation with Elizabeth Murphy and Chloe Melas, daughter and granddaughter of late veteran and author Frank Murphy

Speaker: Laura S. Jowdy, Director of Archives, Collections & Museum, Congressional Medal of Honor Society

Author Lynne Olson and Steph Hinnershitz, PhD, Senior Historian in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, will discuss Olson’s just-released book about a young woman who helped the French Resistance against the occupying Nazis and then spearheaded one of the most important archaeological preservation efforts in the post-war period.

A Conversation with the author Cameron McCoy, PhD and John Curatola, PhD of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.

America's WWII military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.

Divisions offers a decidedly different view.

Author Walt Larimore, MD, will be joined in conversation by Mark Calhoun, PhD.

Avshalom (Avshi) Weinstein, a third-generation Israeli violin maker, was trained by his father, Amnon, and began working in their workshop in 1998 as a violin maker and restorer of violins, violas and cellos. Together with local educators and musicians, he visits schools where youngsters often have their first introduction to the history of the Holocaust and also the opportunity to see and hold an instrument that has survived so much and represents history.