Pritzker Military Museum & Library Podcasts

Kristin Henderson is a journalist married to a military chaplain who has served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The cost of the war in Iraq, homeland security in the US, and deployment of American troops around the globe are both taxing the U.S. treasury and generating heated debate in Congress.

In March 1968, in the weeks following the Tet Offensive, Captain Bucha and his company found themselves surrounded and cutoff by the North Vietnamese.

Once revered as one of the finest officers in the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont is now, when remembered at all, criticized for resisting technological advancement and for half-heartedly leading the disastrous all-ironclad Union naval attack...

At the very center of this story is John Wilkes Booth, America's notorious villain. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat.

Until 1822, when John Jacob Aster swallowed up the fur trade and the trading posts of the upper Mississippi were closed, the 6,000-strong Sauk Nation occupied one of North America's largest and most prosperous Indian settlements.

U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly.

It was the largest battle ever for the United States Marine Corps, and, in total, nearly 50,000 killed in action or wounded on both sides in the 36-day battle involving over 90,000 troops.

The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) was founded in 1997, the 50th Anniversary year of the Marshall Plan. Two major projects of MLI are the Mine Detection Dog Partnership Program (MDDPP) and Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS).

Jonna Doolittle Hoppes is the granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittle. Calculated Risk is a firsthand account that brings readers inside the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle.

Shattered Sword is a new, definitive account of the Battle of Midway, focusing primarily (but by no means exclusively) on the Japanese side of the battle.

As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. Through his groundbreaking research, Carwardine probes the sources of Lincoln's moral and political philosophy.

With Iraq's first parliamentary election now history, the U.S. policy in Iraq continues to evolve. President Bush has acknowledged the challenges America faces as pressures to reduce or withdraw U.S. Troops mount. Join John Callaway and his panel of experts...

In August 1944, the murder of an Italian prisoner of war at Seattle's Fort Lawton stunned the nation. The three American soldiers charged with the crime and forty others accused of storming the Italian barracks were all black. Despite a lack of evidence to...

In April 1970, while serving as an Infantry advisor in Vietnam, Sergeant Littrell was thrust in to command of a battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers in defending their position. His extraordinary actions over the next four days in leading operations in the...