Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

While America's Civil War was fought on Confederate battlefields, Chicago played a crucial role in the Union's struggle toward victory. Arnie Bernstein's new book The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections (2003, Lake Claremont Press)...

Hear amazing accounts of bravery, ingenuity, fortitude and persistence told with compassion and even humor by the members who served during World War II aboard the USS Pillsbury, part of the USS Guadalcanal Task Group 22.3. Each received the Silver Star for...

Allen J. Lynch was awarded with the Medal of Honor by the United States Congress for daring, unselfish acts of bravery in Vietnam. In this program, he tells a captivating, "room silencing" tale of his Vietnam experience in a stirring and educational presentation.

What state and city agencies have developed strategies for dealing with the post 9/11 reality? How is our metropolitan area coordinating with the federal Department of Homeland Security and how are we dealing with the additional cost of such preparations.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004 as David Maraniss visited the library to talk about his new book They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, visited the library.

Monday, March 8th, 2004 Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of WWII's OSS spoke at the library.

Jack Jacobs received the Medal of Honor in 1969 for exceptional heroism on the battlefield in Vietnam.

Should we mount a national initiative to expand language and cultural studies to upgrade our understanding of the world?

Emmy Award winning broadcast veteran John Callaway moderates a new public affairs forum focusing on critical issues related to the military and our society.

Joseph L. Galloway, sixty-six, is a native of Refugio, Texas. The author of a weekly syndicated column on military and national security affairs, he recently retired as senior military correspondent of Knight-Ridder Newspapers

In the sky over the southern Mediterranean Jim Gavin struggles against the hundred plus pounds of gear strapped to his body, scrambling to gain footing on the deck of the bucking aircraft.

Glenna Whitley discusses her book (written with B.G. Burkett), Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: Moderated by Lewis Sorley. Authors Carlo D'este and Geoffry Perret talk about America's 34th President.

Six Colby Award Winners at the Pritzker Military Library, Moderated by Author Sean Naylor.