Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

The First 100 Days: What Challenges Face the New Commander-in-Chief? President Barack Obama has laid out a bold domestic agenda to address the economy and other challenges at home, but what kind of impact is he looking to make overseas? Join John Callaway...

For three years, it was a secret that Tom Norris had participated in one of the most difficult and dangerous rescues ever attempted in the Vietnam War. Since then, it's been no secret that this retired Navy SEAL has an incredible story to tell.

Traitor to His Class examines three eras of Roosevelt's life: the privileged child of the upper crust, the economic reformer of the New Deal, and the resolute leader of World War II. In the early days, everything seemed to go right for the charismatic Roosevelt,...

John Baker had been a gymnast in high school before he joined the Army. One day, near Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, he put the first lesson of gymnastics to pretty good use: if you fall down, get right back up and keep going.

Join John Callaway and his panel of experts for an update on the Reserves of each branch of service and Guard, including an in-depth look at the U.S. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, on Front & Center.

In 2006, a car bomb hit Dozier's news team on a street in Baghdad. Her cameraman and sound man were killed, as were their Army escort and Iraqi translator. The next time Dozier opened her eyes, she was in a hospital in Germany, and couldn't speak.

Linda Robinson is the bestselling author of Masters of Chaos and author in residence at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies' Strategic Studies Program.

Reflecting now, Phillips regrets that "we failed to communicate with or understand the Vietnamese on a human level." Vietnam was lost, in Phillips' mind, for failure to give the Vietnamese people a political cause worth fighting for - and, in a review of today's...

Carlo D'Este is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and co-founder of the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium, based at Norwich University. He is the author of Patton: A Genius for War and Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life 1890-1945, among other...

Inside the Stalin Archives reveals a modern Russia in which those citizens were, in a way, right. Today, more than 55 years after his death, Stalin remains an inescapable presence in Russia - not only in the slogans of extremist political groups, but also...

John Callaway and his panel of experts for a look ahead at the new administration on Front & Center.

For female reporters who wanted to cover the long, brutal war in Vietnam, the challenge began before they even left home, when - in the words of one former Saigon bureau chief - they had to "fight like hell to get the assignment."

Steve Coll is President & CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004.

Fresh out of college and facing a stack of bills, Jack Jacobs requested assignment with an airborne division, with an eye towards the extra pay he would earn for hazardous duty. When the Army assigned him to be an adviser instead, Jacobs developed an incredible...

Sorley chronicles the superintendents of West Point, the evolving curriculum of the academy and debate over what should be taught to a prospective officer, and the expectations held for cadets - not only by the faculty and alumni, but also by cadets themselves,...