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Episode 1 – Victory in Europe: One Year Later with Dr. Rob Citino
Learn MoreWelcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode, titled Victory in Europe: One Year Later, is brought to you by the Jenny Craig’s Institute for War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum.
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Episode 2 – Master and Commander—Winston Churchill at War with Anthony Tucker-Jones
Learn MoreThis 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.
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Episode 3 – Ship of Ghosts: USS Houston at the Battle of Java Sea with James Hornfischer
Learn MoreToday 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.
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Episode 4 – Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture with Joshua Levine
Learn MoreThis week we are going back to June 29, 2020, when Museum Librarian Wesley Lucas led a discussion with author Joshua Levine on his book: “Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture.”
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Episode 5 – Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration with Shirley Ann Higuchi
Learn MoreOn February 22, 2021, Dr. Rob Citino, the Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, had a conversation with Shirley Ann Higuchi, the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation.
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Episode 6 – The Meaning of D-Day
Learn MoreOn June 2, 2020, we had a roundtable discussion on the significance of D-Day and its legacy. Led by Dawn Hammatt, Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, the roundtable features historians Dr. Allyson Stanton instructor at Gogebic community college, Dr. Benjamin Schneider instructor at George Mason University and Dr. Tyler Bamford, the National WWII Museum’s inaugural Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow.
Jeremy Collins
As a student pursuing his history degree at the University of Missouri, Jeremy joined The National WWII Museum in 2001 as an intern with the Collections & Exhibits Department. There, he immersed himself in the artifacts and stories that made up the Museum’s collection. He was involved with many of the Museum’s special exhibitions and co-curated the special exhibition When Baseball Went to War. In 2008, he moved to the Travel & Conference Department, and was involved with most aspects of the travel program, including tour design, development, and content. This saw him scout, lead, or manage tours all over the world including the Philippines, the Mediterranean, England, and Northwest Europe. Jeremy also oversees the creation, planning, marketing, and execution of many of the Museum marquee public programs, including book launches, distinguished lectures, symposia, and the Museum’s annual International Conference on World War II. As a member of The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, Jeremy provides public programming of the highest caliber to the Museum’s audience, both physical and digital.
Rob Citino, PhD
Robert Citino, PhD, is the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Dr. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published ten books including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, as well as numerous articles covering World War II and twentieth-century military history. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as World War II. Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the US military establishment and taught one year at the US Military Academy at West Point and two years at the US Army War College.
World War II On Topic is made possible by The Herzstein Foundation.