Today we are traveling back to February 27, 2012, for a discussion with best-selling author James Hornfischer on his book “Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston,” which earned him the United States Maritime Literature Award.

This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Today we are listening to Dr. Rob Citino, the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian here at the Museum, and author/ historian Anthony Tucker-Jones.

In this episode, Jason Dawsey, PhD, and John Curatola, PhD, historians with the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, discuss the legacy of the Manhattan Project.

In this episode, we hear from two extraordinary people who experienced the bombing of Hiroshima, albeit from vastly different perspectives. These are firsthand recollections, excerpted from the oral histories given by Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk and Ittsei Nakagawa.

In this episode, Jason Dawsey, PhD, and John Curatola, PhD, historians with the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, discuss the film Oppenheimer, released July 21, 2023.