Lecture by Dr. Marion DorseyWinning battles requires fighting and supplies, but sometimes tricks can turn the tide in one side’s favor. The Allies considered and implemented a variety of deceptions, sometimes massive ones, against the Axis powers. From the invasion of Sicily to the landings at Normandy, the Allies benefited from lies and deceptions that […]
Lecture by Dr. Edward G. MillerIn June 1963, American journalist Malcolm Browne captured one of the most famous photographs of all time: the self-immolation of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc. What caused Quang Duc to take his life in such a shocking and painful way? In his lecture, Edward Miller reveals the behind-the-scenes […]
Lecture and book signing by the author Peter Lion It’ s December 1944, and knowing they would not be home for Christmas, battle weary GIs throw a holiday party for the children of Wiltz, Luxembourg. Ten days later the town is all but destroyed during the Battle of the Bulge. Wiltz however never forgot the […]
Documentary film presentationThis is a fun, fast-paced biopic about Colonel Norman Phillips. No one has squeezed more out of 98 years than Phillips, and he tells his own story with clarity, candor, and charisma. Raised by illiterate, immigrant grandparents, Phillips grew up to become a decorated World War II fighter pilot, mentor to future astronauts, […]
Lecture by Professor Kurk DorseyFifty years have passed since the United States began to disentangle itself from the war in Vietnam. Yet the war is still meshed into American society, politics, and foreign policy. In this illustrated lecture, Kurk Dorsey discusses some of the ways in which the Vietnam War continues to influence the United […]
Film starring Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Fredric March This program is free thanks to Edward Jones, Kevin Lawlor, Financial AdvisorThe story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. The crisis each veteran faced upon arriving home is a microcosm of the experiences many […]
The previously scheduled October 12 Education Program at the Wright Museum of WWII has been cancelled. However, the documentary film “The American St, Nick” will be screened on October 12 from 7-8:00pm. The film “The American St. Nick” is based on the book by the same name by author Peter Lion. Lion will be present […]
Lecture and book signing by the author Andrew Biggio The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all -- […]
PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT A Discussion with the author Jamie Ford, moderated by Dr. Monica Chiu, Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire Jamie Ford's novel, The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans […]
An online presentation by the authors Elizabeth and Michael Norman - Honoring the 80th anniversary of the Bataan Death March The New York Times wrote: the authors of the “Tears in the Darkness” have given us an authoritative history of the Bataan Death March. Ten years in the making, it is based on hundreds of […]
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM JUNE 7th TO JUNE 9th Lecture by author Professor Charles R. Gallagher, S.J. On January 13, 1940, FBI agents burst into the homes and offices of 17 members of the Christian Front, seizing guns, ammunition, and homemade bombs. J. Edgar Hoover’s charges were that the group planned to incite a […]
Lecture by the author Elizabeth G. Macalaster War Pigeons traces the remarkable service of homing pigeons in the U.S. Military, from its beginnings after the Civil War to the birds’ invaluable communications role in every branch of the U.S. military through two world wars and beyond. For 75 years, through four wars on four continents, […]
