Join us for our premier adult educational event bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss the war that changed the world.

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

From the Grand Alliance to the Cold War.

Join author Adam Makos with special guest WWII veteran Buck Marsh for a discussion about Makos’s new book Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II.

Eighty years after the end of World War II, this two-day symposium will offer a comprehensive look at the turning points and closing moments of the war in Europe and the Pacific.

Join us for a special evening celebrating the launch of a new book about the D-Day invasion by the Museum’s President & CEO Emeritus.

Join us in conversation with Robin Judd, author of Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust.

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

The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, with the generous support of the Strake Foundation, is delighted to host best-selling author Winston Groom for a presentation about his book illuminating the “Big Three” leaders of World War II.

Join us in conversation with Mike Croissant, author of Bombing Hitler’s Hometown.

Join us for an evening of discussion about Hugh Ambrose’s final book, Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition.

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.