Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

Winner of the 2015 Colby Award for a major contribution to the understanding of military history, U.S. Army Col. Doug Mastriano's debut work sorts fact from myth in the first full-length biography of York in decades. Sponsored by the United States World War...

Exploring the idea that combat encompasses both unadulterated terror and grinding boredom, Alexander Rose returns to the Museum & Library to discuss his unforgettable chronicle investigating the experience of battle as seen through the eyes of American soldiers...

Bestselling author and acclaimed World War II historian Alex Kershaw returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to share his new book, recounting the remarkable true story of the Jackson family’s heroic efforts to defeat the evil in their midst.

Honored at the 2015 Liberty Gala with an inaugural Founder's Literature Award, acclaimed British historian Sir Michael Howard shares a discussion of his life's work with award-winning journalist, author, and 2012 Pritzker Literature Award recipient Sir Max...

Jake Tapper: The Outpost

An unflinching, moving, and eye-opening account of the devastating sacrifices made during one of America’s deadliest battles in Afghanistan.

Military History Symposium: Allan R. Millett: The War for Korea, 1950-1951

Allan R. Millett is Ambrose Professor of History and Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and is the recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military...

Military History Symposium: Gerhard Weinberg: Big Men of WWII

Interviewed by Dr. John Allen Williams, one of America’s foremost WWII scholars, Gerhard Weinberg, for an in-depth discussion on the major players in WWII, and the effect each had on the war that changed the world.

In a spellbinding work of historical restoration, bestselling author Karen Abbott recounts in her new book the courage and audacious duplicity of four remarkable women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who played seminal roles during...

Sebastian Junger: WAR

Sebastian Junger spent several months embedded with the Second Platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade during their 2007-08 deployment to the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. Command called the soldiers of Second Platoon “the best trained...and worst disciplined”.

Bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis shares his unique, myth-shattering, and insightful look at war—why we fight, who fights our wars and what we need to know but perhaps never learned about the growth and development of America’s military forces. Sponsored...

The Museum & Library's newest orginal work—a personal odyssey of service from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, offering a firsthand glimpse into the life of a 19th Century American citizen soldier—is explored in detail by Editor Susan Gilbreath...