Citizen Soldier

Moderated by Laura Washington, this collaboration between the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Pritzker Military Museum and Library presents a powerful conversation between veterans from World War II, Vietnam, and the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. The different generations of veterans discuss the ways in which military service has changed over the last 60 years, consistent practices among the military, as well as how their sacrifice shapes the world today.

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.

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

Veterans of the Department of the Army Special Photographic Office discuss how they captured the horrors and humanity of the Vietnam War armed with their cameras and operating on direct orders from the Army Chief of Staff.

A Discussion of German Military History

Gordon Wood, Scott Stephenson, and Philip Mead explore the role of George Washington in the American Revolution. Throughout the episode, the panel discusses and describes how Washington first established the citizen soldier tradition.

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…

Dr. John Morrow Jr. discusses some of the overlooked aspects of the Battle of the Bulge, one of the largest battles in which American forces have ever fought. While most scholars when writing about the Bulge focus on Bastogne and General Patton, Morrow puts the battle into context and illuminates other aspects of this important WWII battle.

A panel of military experts discuss the history of one of America's oldest Navy ships, USS Olympia. From the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, to its final mission of carrying the body of an unknown soldier from France to the United States in 1921, the story of USS Olympia represents and solidifies the United States' emergence as a world naval power.

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.