Videos

The U.S. victory over Japan in World War II was the topic of Missouri University of Science and Technology U.S. military history professor John McManus' book.This event was hosted by the St.…

Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.) and British historian Andrew Roberts discussed their book on the evolution of warfare from World War II to Ukraine. This event was hosted by the National Churchill…

Craig Nelson discussed his book, V Is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II. This event was part of the 2023 Texas Book Festival in Austin.

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s secret wartime visit to see American troops on the South Pacific’s front lines was recounted at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by the Franklin D. …

The life and work of storied World War II journalist Ernie Pyle was remembered in a talk delivered at the 2023 Roosevelt Reading Festival, hosted by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Li…

Author Brad Meltzer discussed his book on the Nazi plot to kill Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II. The Curious Iguana bookstore in Freder…

Authors Tom Clavin, James Scott and Kevin Maurer looked at World War II aviation warfare.

Yale University’s Paul Kennedy talked about the rise and fall of great powers during World War II and the actions of the navies of Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Jap…

Robert Sutton (Nazis on the Potomac), Howard Simkin (Home Run), David Dworak (War of Supply) and Timothy Stoy (Sharpen Your Bayonets) talked about different aspects of World War II and the s…

Bestselling author Martin Dugard talked about the taking of Berlin in April 1945 by Allied forces toward the end of World War II. Mr. Dugard is also the co-author of several historical ficti…

Journalist David de Jong talked about the German business dynasties behind companies like BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen that made fortunes during the Third Reich by collaborating with the Naz…

Sarah Rose talked about her book, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, in which she reported on British female spies in World Wa…

Lynne Olson talked about her book, Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler, in which she recalled the life of Marie-Madeleine…

Erika Robuck, author of The Invisible Woman, and Stephanie Dray, author of The Women of Chateau Lafayette," discussed the role of women in World War II. This event is from the Virtual Gaithe…

Bradford Pearson told the story of the Japanese Americans held at an internment camp in Wyoming during World War ll and how their sons, during their incarceration, played for an undefeated h…

Author David McKean talked about President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassadors in London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Moscow - and how all but one misjudged the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich.…

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recounts her early childhood years in her native Czechoslovakia, as it came under the control of Nazi Germany. Using her parents' writings, …

Historians Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms discussed Hitler’s decision to declare war on the United States on December 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. This vir…

Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell examined the development of precision bombing during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C.

Journalist Tom Roston provided a history of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing of his novel about World War II, Slaughterhouse Five, and questioned if Vonnegut’s own post-traumatic stress disorder from…