Ron Janowski – The Cold War: Decades of Division and Diplomacy “The Cold War,” a broadbrush, but comprehensive presentation covering the major events of the Cold War from 1947 – […]
Dr. Rowland Brucken - The Bretton Woods Conference The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all […]
Edna W. Cummings - 6888th, Central Postal Directory Battalion The U.S. Army’s 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-minority, all-female Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit to serve overseas […]
Robert O'Connor - The Jeep Show In late 1944 the American military was advancing through Western Europe so fast that entertainment units could not keep up with them. Major Joshua […]
Dr. Edward Gordon - Fireball in the Night: The Fire-Bombing of Japan and the Atomic Bomb Controversy On April 18, 1942, Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Doolittle led a clandestine bombing raid […]
Helen Fry - Women in Intelligence From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world […]
Shannon McKenna Schmidt - The First Lady of World War II In August 1943, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt set out in secret for the Pacific on an arduous journey that […]
Arthur Krulewitz, MD CM - The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to […]
Dr. Fred Johnson, III - The Heroism of Ben Salomon By law, only U.S. Service members who distinguish themselves “ through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life […]
The Freese Brothers Big Band Eighty years ago this summer, World War II came to an end. As members of the Greatest Generation began to return home, they and their […]
Dennis Vachon - Unfaltering Courage: The Diaries of TSGt. Raymond Vachon, a World War II Army Air Corps Flight Enginneer The Diaries of TSgt. Raymond Vachon, a World War II […]
Linda Matchett - The American Home Front in 29 Objects Unlike its European allies during World War II, the American mainland escaped physical devastation, as it was not subjected to […]
