Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

The General and the Jaguar takes a detailed look into the early morning of March 9, 1916, when Pancho Villa launched an attack on Columbus, N.M.

Colonel Howard served five tours in Vietnam and is the only soldier in our nation's history to be nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor three times for three separate actions within a thirteen-month period. He received a direct appointment from Master...

With the establishment of a new government in Iraq offering limited amnesty to insurgents, reports of a US strategy to reduce troop levels, and the continuing political debate in the US, is there a new era dawning in America's relationship with Iraq?

A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.

The military chaplain faces extraordinary challenges. Soldiers face life and death situations on a daily basis, yet are often spiritually unprepared for the stress of battle or the sacrifices war requires. The chaplain is expected to be a religious leader,...

Edwin Bearss discusses his latest work, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War.

George E. "Bud" Day is the nation's most highly decorated soldier since General Douglas MacArthur. In a military career spanning 34 years and three wars, Day received nearly 70 decorations and awards of which more than 50 are for combat.

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two citizens hostage, and kept them hostage for 444 days.

On D-Day, three hundred young American and Allied soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines to launch a secret sabotage mission code-named Jedburgh.

Throughout history, the medical profession has literally been in the trenches on the battlefield. This necessary relationship between the military and the medics has saved untold numbers of wounded soldiers.

Executive Director Ed Tracy will discuss Ervin's recently released book, Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack and his first-hand experiences as former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General.

Approximately three million soldiers killed in World War I were never identified. In tribute, each participating nation, beginning with Britain, laid one body to rest in a Tomb for the Unknown Soldier.

Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War stemmed from a series published in the Toledo Blade entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths".

Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.

Scott Turow is the author of six best selling novels about the law.