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June

6/21/2007

Andro Linklater
The Fabric of America
With compelling narrative history and captivating historical argument Andro Linklater relates in fascinating detail how, the borders and boundaries that formed ...

6/28/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Ronald E. Rosser, U.S. Army, Korean War
In the bitter cold of January 1952, then-Army Corporal Ronald E. Rosser of Roseville, Ohio, earned the nation's highest award while serving as a forward observer for ...

July

7/12/2007

Charles Jones
Summer Member & Guest Luncheon
The Pritzker Military Library's Summer Member/Guest Luncheon will take place on Thursday, July 12, 2007 featuring first-time author and newspaper reporter...

7/12/2007

Front & Center with John Callaway
Returning Veterans: How Warm A Welcome?
The war in Afghanistan and Iraq has put tremendous pressure on America's ability to deal with the health and welfare challenges facing returning veterans, ...

7/18/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Roger Donlon, U.S. Army, Vietnam War
Roger Donlon served 32 years of his life in uniform rising to the rank of colonel. A leader in so many ways, he was the first Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War, ...

7/14/2007

John Nagl
Special Saturday Program
As the 2008 presidential election nears, all of the major candidates have taken steps to burnish their credentials on national security in the eyes of the electorate ...

October

10/5/2007

2007 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Recipient
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson was born in North Dakota and grew up in Minnesota, where he attended Gustavus Adolphus College and graduated magna cum laude in 1958 ...

10/18/2007

Rick Atkinson
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily & Italy
In 1943, after their victory in North Africa, the Allied forces made their next move: into what Churchill called "that soft underbelly" of the Axis beast, Sicily and ...

September

9/6/2007

Front & Center with John Callaway
Today's National Guard: Ready or Wanting?
Whether it's extended deployment, inadequate equipment or returning veterans with serious medical problems, the National Guard has struggled with ...

9/13/2007

Medal of Honor: Allen Lynch
Allen J. Lynch
To his fellow soldiers, Illinois native Allen Lynch is a hero; to the enemy force that ambushed his battalion in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, he was a nightmare ...

9/27/2007

John Ferling
Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
The Revolutionary War looks a lot easier today than it did in 1783. When General George Washington crossed the Delaware River with the Colonial Army and ...

October

10/4/2007

Front & Center with John Callaway
Ed Tracy interviews John Callaway
In this special edition of Front and Center, the Library's Executive Producer, Ed Tracy will interview John Callaway on his extraordinary 50 years in television ...

10/15/2007

Last Best Hope
Film Presentation
The Pritzker Military Library is proud to welcome executive producers David Grosvenor and Ramona Kelly for the Chicago theatrical debut of their award-winning...

10/20/2007

Chandra Manning
Civil War Saturday
The soldiers of the Civil War had no need for newsreels to know why they were fighting. In Chandra Manning's remarkable new history, What This Cruel War Was ...

September

9/20/2007

Tim Weiner
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
When President Eisenhower left office in January 1961, he did not look back with pride on the work of one of his key agencies. Eight years of covert activity, espionage ...

November

11/7/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Patrick H. Brady
For all of the money and development hours that go into best-selling video games, the virtual world still hasn't caught up with what Patrick Brady did with a real-life ...

11/29/2007

Ralph Peters
Wars of Blood & Faith
Surveying the rhetoric about the "new kind of war" in Iraq, controversial strategist Ralph Peters notes that there is nothing new about fighting over ethnicity ...

11/8/2007

Julie M. Fenster
The Case of Abraham Lincoln
It is 1856 and the city of Springfield is gripped in scandal. A man lies dead in his office, murdered - so says the fever pitch of public opinion - by his ...

October

10/25/2007

Hampton Sides
Blood & Thunder: An Epic of the American West
For one of his most devoted fans, Kit Carson came to the rescue five minutes too late. Carson found the slain young woman, Ann White, kidnapped and then killed ...

December

12/5/2007

Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Walter D. Ehlers
Leadership came naturally to the young Kansas native, newly promoted to Staff Sergeant on the eve of the landing at Normandy...

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