Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts
Summary: Located in Chicago, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library is open to the public with live events and a collection of books, art, and artifacts that tell the story of the Citizen Soldier in American military history. This master feed will provide all available Library programs including events with award-winning authors, interviews with Medal of Honor recipients, and panel discussions on military issues. To view more than 300 previous Library programs, visit pritzkermilitary.org.
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Podcasts:
America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II
Father John McNalis served as a military Chaplain on Air Force bases between 1973 and 1997, completing brief assignments on bases in Germany and Japan.
Daniel Devine, served with the U.S. Marine Corps from September, 1968 to March, 1975, facing communist insurgents around the world.
Pearl Harbor Christmas is a day-by-day account of the holiday season in 1941, from December 21st to New Year's Day. Stanley Weintraub is a National Book Award finalist, professor emeritus of arts and humanities at Penn State University, and the author of numerous...
To celebrate the release of the third edition of Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty, two Medal of Honor recipients, Jack Jacobs and Allen J. Lynch, visit the Pritzker Military Library.
In the midst of his global narrative, Hastings focuses on events of the Second World War as they appeared to the people experiencing them.
Operation Phantom Fury was a seven-week counter-insurgency campaign through the streets of Fallujah — an ancient city 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Amanda Foreman is the author of the international bestseller Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1999) which has been translated into thirteen languages and won the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
Marvin Kalb is the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice (Emeritus) at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Deborah Kalb, a freelance writer and editor, worked as a journalist in Washington for two decades.
Karl Marlantes received the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals for his service with the Marine Corps in Vietnam.
Colonel Stetson M. Siler served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force from July 8, 1976 to July 31, 2006.
At 10:00 a.m. on June 4, 1942, the Axis powers were winning the Second World War. One hour later, they were not. Symonds argues that the Battle of Midway was the war's tipping point.
World War II veteran James Lanz served in the U.S. Navy departing from Pearl Harbor 2 years after that infamous attack to serve in the Pacific Theater of Operations on an LST-34.
Eric Greitens felt a call to service in his heart; years later, he felt a call to service with his fist, and came to realize those calls were one and the same.
In every one of America's wars, there have been men and women who knew how Wheeler Lipes felt that day in 1942, and Battlefield Angels is dedicated to their stories.
