Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

As the sergeant major of the Army, Grinston is the Army chief of staff's personal adviser on matters affecting the enlisted force. He devotes the majority of his time traveling throughout the Army to observe training and interact with Soldiers and their Families. He sits on a variety of councils and boards that make decisions affecting enlisted Soldiers and their Families and routinely invited to testify before Congress. Grinston is the public face of the U.S. Army's Noncommissioned Officer Corps, representing the NCO Corps to the American people in the media and through business and community engagements.

In this special episode of Pritzker Military Presents, Dr. Rob Havers sits down with Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy to discuss diversity and inclusion in the United States Army, its history and future.

Renowned military historians and past Pritzker Literature Award recipients, Peter Paret and Gerhard Weinberg, discuss the interdependent relationship between war and society.

Nick Mueller interviews Dennis Showalter on receiving the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in this session from the 2018 ON WAR Military History Symposium. The Pritzker Military Museum…

From the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War to its final mission to carry the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to the United States in 1921, USS Olympia represents the United States's emergence as a world naval power.

In this episode of Citizen Soldier, renown authors and Vietnam veterans, Tim O’Brien and Karl Marlantes, discuss the difficult moral questions that go hand-in-hand with military conflicts as well as the concept of dehumanizing the “enemy”. These…

Author Dean Reuter visits the Museum & Library to discuss harrowing realities of SS commander General Hans Kammler.

Rear Admiral Nowakowski will be visiting the Museum & Library to discuss his service, his role as Deputy Commander to Navy Recruiting as well as Naval Education and Training Command, and the history of United States Navy.

Author David Roll visits the Museum & Library to discuss the extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall, America’s most distinguished soldier–statesman since George Washington, whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course…

Author Donald Miller visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which provides a richly revealing portrait of Ulysses S. Grant within the enthralling story of the Civil War. The surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863 was the…

Author Greg Fontenot visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which provides a compelling account of the 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Loss and Redemption at St. Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge…

Pulitzer Prize and Pritzker Literature Award winning authors David Hackett Fischer and Rick Atkinson discuss their work as military historians, with a focus on the American War for Independence. Supported by sponsors of the 2015 Liberty Gala.

A panel of distinguished U.S. Navy veterans will discuss the legacy of Admiral Rickover, considered by many as the father of the U.S. nuclear Navy. Presented in partnership with the Chicago Navy Memorial Foundation A poor Jewish kid from Chicago’s…

2019 Literature Award recipient, Dr. John Morrow, Jr. discusses some of the lesser-known aspects of the Battle of the Bulge in honor of its 75th anniversary.

Author Larrie Ferreiro visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which recasts the American Revolution in a revealing new light. A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History and Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year…

Author David Abrutat visits the Musuem & Library to discuss his book which provides an excellent historical account for anyone wanting to understand the Allies military success on D-Day.  Operation OVERLORD, the opening up of an Allied second…

Presented in conjunction with the opening of the Museum & Library's new FACES OF WAR exhibit, veterans of the Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) Pacific Detachment discuss the vital role played by these elite special operations…

In this episode of Citizen Soldier, the preeminent scholar of WWI, Sir Hew Strachan, sits down with WWII historian Sir Antony Beevor to discuss the world’s first truly global conflict.

Allan Millett sits down with Jay Williams to discuss the Siege of Bastogne and explore the impact the Seige had on the Allied victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

Showalter discusses the human characters, personalities, and capabilities of those on both sides of the Battle of the Bulge, from the leaders in high command to those on the ground.

Weinberg discusses the decision to launch a major offensive against the Allies of the American and British in the West versus the Soviet Union in the East.

Strachan explores the last major German offensives in the First World War, focusing on the Spring Offensives of 1918.

Pentagon defense expert, former U.S. Army Ranger and author Paul Scharre visits the Museum & Library to explore what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death. What happens when a Predator drone has as…

Author Jim Dubik visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which is a powerful reflection on a troubling time in American history. In the seminal Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer famously considered the ethics of modern warfare,…

Author Tom Hone visits the Museum & Library to discuss his masterful, all-embracing work detailing both the American and Japanese sides of the pivotal Battle of Midway in World War II. The best way for today's sailors to learn about a battle is…

Author Ben Runkle visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which provides a fascinating history of  the U.S. Army’s greatest World War II Commanders in the years between the Great War and World War 2. Shakespeare famously wrote that some…

Major General Brian Winski visits the Museum & Library to discuss the 101st Airborne Division and the role of the U.S. Army. Major General Winski is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He commissioned through ROTC and entered active duty as an…

PFC Howell Malham served in the US Marine Corps, 22nd Regiment during World War II. He was a combatant in the Battle of Okinawa, in April, 1945. Shortly after the island was "secured", he was hit with a bullet from a Japanese sniper during a "mopping…

Born in Buffalo, New York, Rung was drafted to the United States Navy, in 1943 when he was eighteen years old. He had done his basic training at the Sampson Naval Training Base in Geneva, New York. But once his superiors discovered his auto-mechanics…

Author Stephen Bourque visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book titled Beyond the Beach, which provides an important analysis of the Allied air war against France in 1944.

Author Michael Neiberg visits the Museum & Library to detail the events that took place surrounding the Treaty of Versailles.

Author Benn Steil visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which provides a detailed recounting of The Marshall Plan which focuses on the critical years of 1947 to 1949.

Founding President and CEO of The National WWII Museum discusses his new book titled "Everything We Have" written in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Author Thomas Conner visits the Museum & Library to discuss the history and practice of the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Trent Hone visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book which explains the US Navy's development of doctrine from 1898 to 1945 and reveals how the Navy embraced innovation.

General Joseph Lengyel visits the Museum & Library to talk about his service and the role of the National Guard. General Joseph L. Lengyel serves as the 28th Chief of the National Guard Bureau and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author Peter Shinkle visits the Museum & Library to reveal Bobby Cutler’s full story for the first time, showing how valued he was by Eisenhower, as a trusted friend and advisor on security and Cold War policy.

Author Nimrod Frazer returns to the Museum & Library to discuss his latest book about the story of three U.S. Army Divisions tasked with capturing the Côte de Châtillon during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Steven Sodergren discusses his new book about the transition to trench warfare during the Civil War and its impact on Union soldiers.

Weinberg and Prados discuss the important role of codebreaking and espionage in the Second World War in this session from the 2018 ON WAR Military History Symposium. Cryptography was used extensively during World War II, with a plethora of code and…

Medal of Honor recipient Al Lynch will sit down with co-author Richard Ernsberger to discuss their forthcoming book about Lynch's life from a bullied kid to warrior in this session from the 2018 ON WAR Military History Symposium. Zero to Hero…

Allan Millett and Gary Johnson discuss the defeat of Native American tribal confederation in War of 1812 in this session from the 2018 ON WAR Military History Symposium. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain…

Author Stephen Moore discusses his book about the highly covert Vietnam War-era Study and Observation Group.

Fizer was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1925 where he experienced racial prejudice. When he heard about the Marine Corps accepting blacks’ enlistment during World War II, he took that opportunity, at the age of seventeen. The commanders at Montford…

Lieutenant General Richard Natonski, USMC (Retired) and Colonel Marc Warren, USA (Retired) visit the Museum & Library to provide a detailed analysis of the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of hybrid warfare, where law-abiding militaries confront non-state…

Author James Holland discusses his book about the biggest air battle of WWII with the Museum & Library.

Nathan Finney and Tyrell Mayfield discuss their book on the intersection of professionalism and ethics in the military. Sponsored by the United States Naval Institute.

Author Joel Bius visits the Museum & Library to discuss his book about the relationship between the military and the cigarette. Sponsored by United States Naval Institute.

Sir Max Hastings returns to the Museum & Library to discuss his latest book on the Vietnam War