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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. -Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
WWIIDF
Fall 2023 Semester
September 26th, 8 p.m. ET
Vincent O’Hara & Leonard Heinz:
Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars
October 24th, 8 p.m. ET
Stan Fisher:
Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
November 11th, 1 p.m. ET
Hal M Friedman:
US Naval War College between 1945 and 1947
December 5th, 8 p.m. ET
Steven K Bailey;
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war
October 4th, 8 p.m. ET
Larrie D. Ferreiro:
Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War II
November 4th, 1 p.m. ET
Anthony Tucker-Jones:
Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front
October 14th, 1 p.m. ET
Jeremy Black:
November 9th, 8 p.m. ET
Edward Luttwak
The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces
November 25th, 1 p.m. ET
Brian Lavery:
Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War
December 19th, 8 p.m. ET
Arthur Gullachsen:
Bloody Verrières: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges
Winter & Spring 2024 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
January 9th, 8 p.m. ET
Mark Allen
Midway Submerged: American and Japanese Submarine Operations at the Battle of Midway
February 27th, 8 p.m. ET
Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II
January 27th, 1 p.m. ET
​Dilip Amin
Enemy Sighted: The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World’s First Integrated Air Defence System
February 17th, 1 p.m. ET
Alan Donohue
Warlord Hitler: With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942
March 5th, 8 p.m. ET
Steve Kemper
Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
February 3rd, 1 p.m. ET
Denis Courtois
Winning French Minds: Radio Propaganda in Occupied France, 1940–42
February 20th, 8 p.m. ET
David Sears
Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to Finish
March 17th, 2 p.m. ET
​David Kenyon
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
March 23rd, 2 p.m. ET
John WM Chapman
Hitler's Oil Broker: Thomas Brown, Harbinger of Worldwide Conflict
April 16th, 8 p.m. ET
Craig Luther
​The Luftwaffe and Operation Barbarossa
April 2nd, 8 p.m. ET
Gary Bass
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
April 23rd, 8 p.m. ET
Brian E. Walter
Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth’s Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945
May 7th, 8 p.m. ET
​The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
May 14th, 8 p.m. ET
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
Summer 2024 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
June 1st, 1 p.m. ET
​The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
June 8th, 1 p.m. ET
​Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April–May 1945
June 29th, 1p.m. ET
​FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote
June 15th, 1 p.m. ET
​Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
July 2nd, 8p.m. ET
​Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
July 16th, 8p.m. ET
​Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded
August 6th, 8p.m. ET
​Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich
July 23rd, 8p.m. ET
​American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II
August 13th, 8p.m. ET
Six Air Forces Over the Atlantic: How Allied Airmen Helped Win the Battle of the Atlantic
July 30th, 8p.m. ET
​Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
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August 20th, 8p.m. ET
The Lion and The General: Churchill, Eisenhower and the Friendship That Changed The World
August 27th, 8p.m. ET
​Nightstalkers: : The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II
Fall 2024 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
September 7th, 1 p.m. ET
Betting Against America: The Axis Powers' Views of the United States
October 1st, 8p.m. ET
​Blue versus Orange: The U.S. Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946
November 12th, 8p.m. ET
​The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
November 16th, 1p.m. ET
The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy's First Carrier into Tokyo Bay
September 25th, 8 p.m. ET
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
October 12th, 8p.m. ET
Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper
November 9th, 1p.m. ET
​America's First Aircraft Carrier: USS Langley and the Dawn of U.S. Naval Aviation
November 23rd, 1p.m. ET
​The Eagles of Bastogne: The Untold Story of the Heroic Defense of a City Under Siege
Winter & Spring 2025 Semester
All lectures are free, virtual and open to the public.
January 7th, 8pm ET
​Shannon Monaghan
January 14th, 8pm ET
James Ellman
February 8th, 1pm ET
Katherine Carter
February 25th, 8pm ET
​Donald Nijboer
March 4th, 8pm ET
Bill Ramsey
March 21st, 8pm ET
Brian Walsh
March 25th, 8pm ET
Ben Powers
April 15th, 8pm ET
Michael Zang
May 6th, 8pm ET
Peter Harmsen
February 4th, 8pm ET
Eric Setzekorn
February 19th, 8pm ET
Christopher A Lawrence
March 11th, 8pm ET
David Kohnen
April 8th, 8pm ET
​Stephen M. Rusiecki
April 29th, 8pm ET
Elyse Graham
May 20th, 8pm ET
Brett L. Walker
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