Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts
Summary: The Pritzker Military Library, located in Chicago, Illinois, has extensive collections in military history and military fiction, especially those works that illustrate the role of the citizen-soldier. The mission of the library is to build awareness of the importance of the military in our society by facilitating public debate and discussion on the impact of military issues. The Library has an extensive programming schedule. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. All programs are available as a live webcast and are also archived for later viewing at www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org. This master feed will provide all available PML programs including Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy, Front & Center with John Callaway, and Pritzker Military Library Presents series.
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Podcasts:
In this special edition of Front and Center, the Library's Executive Producer, Ed Tracy will interview John Callaway on his extraordinary 50 years in television.
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, by award-winning author John Ferling, offers fresh perspectives on Greene, Lee, Marion, and the other commanders of the Colonial Army, revealing each as a richly-detailed character with his...
To write his controversial best-seller, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the C.I.A., Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner used more than 50,000 documents, many of them recently declassified, from the archives of the C.I.A., the White House, and the State...
To his fellow soldiers, Illinois native Allen Lynch is a hero; to the enemy force that ambushed his battalion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, he was a nightmare.
Please join John Callaway and a panel including Major General Randal Thomas, Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard, Colonel Jill Morgenthaler (Ret.), and Chicago Tribune correspondent Kirsten Scharnberg as they evaluate the health and readiness of...
Roger Donlon served 32 years of his life in uniform rising to the rank of colonel. A leader in so many ways, he was the first Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War, the first Green Beret to receive such recognition. He will visit the Pritzker Military...
Nagl, recently returned from Iraq and now commanding a battalion, will share his observations, experiences and thoughts while discussing the recently updated Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife.
The war in Afghanistan and Iraq has put tremendous pressure on America's ability to deal with the health and welfare challenges facing returning veterans, particularly those with serious injuries.
The Pritzker Military Library's Summer Member/Guest Luncheon will take place on Thursday, July 12, 2007 featuring first-time author and newspaper reporter Charles Jones, who will discuss Boys of '67, From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good...
In the bitter cold of January 1952, then-Army Corporal Ronald E. Rosser of Roseville, Ohio, earned the nation's highest award while serving as a forward observer for L Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, during the Korean War.
With compelling narrative history and captivating historical argument Andro Linklater relates in fascinating detail how, the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has have ever since been central to the...
Join John Callaway and his panel of experts as they explore and discuss the real costs - and benefits - of military contracting.
An American family facing the challenges of World War II, as recorded in hundred of letters from the Home Front to the air war over Europe and back.
Tough questions are at the heart of James M. Olson's book, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying. Olson, a veteran of the CIAs clandestine service, takes readers inside the real world of intelligence to describe the difficult dilemmas that field officers...
Based on extensive interviews with the unit's members and others associated with their mission, DePue's eye-opening account also covers what it was like for the 26 women of the unit and how support groups back home-with the help of the Internet-helped families...