Four United States Generals from the U.S. Army Reserves, the United States Marine Corps, The United States Marine Corps Reserves, and the Illinois Army National Guard, and a Colonel from the Illinois Army National Guard discuss the duties and importance of the Reserves and the National Guard in the 21st century.
Greg Burns interviews author Paul Reid about his book collaboration with William Manchester. Manchester was a tremendously successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, The Last Lion: Alone, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of A President.
A conversation between Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Dakota Meyer and noted author Bing West about Meyer's experience in the Battle of Ganjigal. For his combat actions, Sgt. Meyer became the first living Marine in three decades to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Dr. John Allen Williams moderates a discussion between James Carl Nelson, author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War and Paul Herbert, Executive Director of the First Division Museum at Cantigny about the WWI Battle of Cantigny and Colonel McCormick legacy.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy converted two lake steamers into aircraft carriers upon which inexperienced pilots performed training missions. During training, 128 aircraft were lost, but the freshwater of Lake Michigan preserved the wreckage, providing the United States to a wealth of knowledge about naval aviation history.
Moderated by Stacey Baca of ABC 7 News, this distinguished panel discussed the important issues facing female veterans in today's military.
Rick Atkinson and Max Hastings discuss the role that embedded journalists play in military history.
Moderated by John Allen Williams, this distinguished panel discussed the Battle of the Atlantic from a global perspective.
Moderated by John Barr, this distinguished panel features three American veterans who were prisoners of war in different conflicts. They discuss their experiences as Prisoners of War and their time in captivity.
The first-hand experience of the American G.I.s who liberated the prisoners in the extensive network of Nazi concentration camps during WWII is something most cannot fathom, but will never be forgotten. This panel discusses the stories and sights from one of the most gruesome periods in history.
Jim Bresnahan leads a panel of historians in exploring an alternate history of World War II in this episode of Citizen Soldier. Panelists Elliot Carlson, John Lundstrom, and Jon Parshall discuss the "what if" questions surrounding the Battle of Midway.
Pritzker Military Museum and Library President and CEO Kenneth Clarke was joined by historian James McPherson and James Cornelius to discuss the military necessity and the act of justice that the Emancipation Proclamation introduced to a warring nation.
An exploration of the history and heritage of America's first black military aviators; with Tuskegee Airman and Chicago native O. Lawton Wilkerson, historian and Tuskegee expert Dr. Daniel Haulman, and Robert Jordan.
An insightful discussion by Vietnam veterans and award-winning fiction writers Tim O'Brien and Karl Marlantes on the subjects of literature, war, politics, and writing.
The U.S. Army's First Infantry Division lived up to its name on June 6, 1944 by being the first troops to land on the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day invasion.
Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward discusses the SEAL experience with documentary photographer Stephanie Freid-Perenchio and SEAL Mike Martin.
History often points to the June 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand as the event that started the Great War, but World War I was not started by any single event.
Michael Hayden, a former director of both the NSA and CIA, discusses with cyber security expert Jason Healey the rapidly evolving role played by technology in military, intelligence and counterintelligence operations.
Author and former Navy Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy Jr. shares his experiences as XO aboard USS Pueblo, the American spy ship famously captured and held by North Korea since 1968.
Scholars like Beevor and Atkinson have answered the highest calling of the military historian: to not only document and preserve our history, but to impart the profound perspective that the true lessons of the past lie in the evolution of human conflict. And while our heroes should be honored and their deeds never forgotten, the real challenge-for world leaders and the rest of us-is in learning to anticipate what might come next.
Moderated by Laura Washington, this collaboration between the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Pritzker Military Museum and Library presents a powerful conversation between veterans from World War II, Vietnam, and the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. The different generations of veterans discuss the ways in which military service has changed over the last 60 years, consistent practices among the military, as well as how their sacrifice shapes the world today.
In this episode of Citizen Soldier, the preeminent scholar of WWI, Sir Hew Strachan, sits down with WWII historian Sir Antony Beevor to discuss the world’s first truly global conflict.
Renowned military historians and past Pritzker Literature Award recipients, Peter Paret and Gerhard Weinberg, discuss the interdependent relationship between war and society.
Veterans of the Department of the Army Special Photographic Office discuss how they captured the horrors and humanity of the Vietnam War armed with their cameras and operating on direct orders from the Army Chief of Staff.
A Discussion of German Military History
Gordon Wood, Scott Stephenson, and Philip Mead explore the role of George Washington in the American Revolution. Throughout the episode, the panel discusses and describes how Washington first established the citizen soldier tradition.
In this episode of Citizen Soldier, renown authors and Vietnam veterans, Tim O’Brien and Karl Marlantes, discuss the difficult moral questions that go hand-in-hand with military conflicts as well as the concept of dehumanizing the “enemy”. These…
Dr. John Morrow Jr. discusses some of the overlooked aspects of the Battle of the Bulge, one of the largest battles in which American forces have ever fought. While most scholars when writing about the Bulge focus on Bastogne and General Patton, Morrow puts the battle into context and illuminates other aspects of this important WWII battle.
A panel of military experts discuss the history of one of America's oldest Navy ships, USS Olympia. From the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, to its final mission of carrying the body of an unknown soldier from France to the United States in 1921, the story of USS Olympia represents and solidifies the United States' emergence as a world naval power.
Pulitzer Prize and Pritzker Literature Award winning authors David Hackett Fischer and Rick Atkinson discuss their work as military historians, with a focus on the American War for Independence. Supported by sponsors of the 2015 Liberty Gala.