2006 Events
01.12.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Gary L. Littrell
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 ...
Gary L. Littrell
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 ...
01.19.06
Jack Hamann
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
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 ...
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
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 ...
01.26.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
A New Year Ahead in Iraq
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 ...
A New Year Ahead in Iraq
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 ...
02.02.06
Richard Carwardine
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
What is it about Abraham Lincoln that makes him as fascinating a figure today as he was in his lifetime? It is an interesting question to contemplate at a time ...
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
What is it about Abraham Lincoln that makes him as fascinating a figure today as he was in his lifetime? It is an interesting question to contemplate at a time ...
02.09.06
Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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 ...
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
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 ...
02.16.06
Jonna Doolittle Hoppes
Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle - Aviation Pioneer and World War II Hero
Calculated Risk is a firsthand account written by his granddaughter that brings readers inside the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle and his family ...
Calculated Risk: The Extraordinary Life of Jimmy Doolittle - Aviation Pioneer and World War II Hero
Calculated Risk is a firsthand account written by his granddaughter that brings readers inside the public and private world of Jimmy Doolittle and his family ...
02.22.06
Marshall Legacy Institute
Mine Detection Dog Partnership Program (MDDPP)
Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS)
The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) was founded in 1997, the 50th Anniversary year of the Marshall Plan, to celebrate the work of General George C. Marshall ...
Mine Detection Dog Partnership Program (MDDPP)
Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS)
The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) was founded in 1997, the 50th Anniversary year of the Marshall Plan, to celebrate the work of General George C. Marshall ...
02.23.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
36 Days on IWO JIMA
It was the largest battle ever for the United State's Marine Corps, and, in total, nearly 50,000 killed in action or wounded on both sides in the 36-day battle ...
36 Days on IWO JIMA
It was the largest battle ever for the United State's Marine Corps, and, in total, nearly 50,000 killed in action or wounded on both sides in the 36-day battle ...
03.02.06
W.E.B. Griffin
The Hostage: A Presidential Agent Novel
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 ...
The Hostage: A Presidential Agent Novel
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 ...
03.11.06
James Swanson
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April ...
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April ...
03.11.06
Kevin J. Weddle
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
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 ...
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
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 ...
03.11.06
Kerry Trask
Black Hawk: The Battle for The Heart of America
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 ...
Black Hawk: The Battle for The Heart of America
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 ...
03.16.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Paul Bucha
In March 1968, in the weeks following the Tet Offensive, Captain Bucha and his company found themselves surrounded and cutoff by a North Vietnamese ...
Paul Bucha
In March 1968, in the weeks following the Tet Offensive, Captain Bucha and his company found themselves surrounded and cutoff by a North Vietnamese ...
03.23.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Economics of National Security: The Cost Today, the Price Tomorrow
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 ...
The Economics of National Security: The Cost Today, the Price Tomorrow
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 ...
03.30.06
Kristin Henderson
While They're at War: The True Story of American Familes on the Homefront
Kristin Henderson is a journalist married to a military chaplain who has served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq In While They're at War, she draws upon ...
While They're at War: The True Story of American Familes on the Homefront
Kristin Henderson is a journalist married to a military chaplain who has served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq In While They're at War, she draws upon ...
04.13.06
Col. Thomas X. Hammes, USMC
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US ...
The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
Ongoing events in Iraq show how difficult it is for the world's only remaining superpower to impose its will upon other peoples. From Vietnam, French and US ...
04.20.06
Steve Huntley
Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America
In Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America Truman K. Gibson Jr. chronicles a life spent at the center of the struggle for racial justice. More than sixty ...
Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America
In Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America Truman K. Gibson Jr. chronicles a life spent at the center of the struggle for racial justice. More than sixty ...
04.27.06
Douglas S. Russell
Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
Douglas S. Russell was born in Chicago and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Iowa College Of Law. He served in the United States Army, ...
Winston Churchill, Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War
Douglas S. Russell was born in Chicago and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Iowa College Of Law. He served in the United States Army, ...
04.27.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
Why are a growing number of high ranking retired officers speaking out for a sweeping change in administration strategy and leadership? How effective ...
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose
Why are a growing number of high ranking retired officers speaking out for a sweeping change in administration strategy and leadership? How effective ...
05.04.06
Derek Leebaert
To Dare and To Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
In this monumental critical analysis of the 3,000-year history of special operations, Leebaert proves that "[a]n opponent's strength does not consist of numbers ...
To Dare and To Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
In this monumental critical analysis of the 3,000-year history of special operations, Leebaert proves that "[a]n opponent's strength does not consist of numbers ...
05.10.06
Scott Turow
Ordinary Heroes: A Novel
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart ...
Ordinary Heroes: A Novel
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart ...
05.12.06
Alexander Rose
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War ...
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War ...
05.18.06
Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War stemmed from a series published in the Toledo Blade entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths" for which Michael...
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War stemmed from a series published in the Toledo Blade entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths" for which Michael...
05.19.06
Neil Hanson
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
From the author of The Confident Hope of a Miracle ("Hanson writes with sweep, confidence, and great verve"-The Washington Post), an unflinching account ...
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
From the author of The Confident Hope of a Miracle ("Hanson writes with sweep, confidence, and great verve"-The Washington Post), an unflinching account ...
05.23.06
Clark Kent Ervin
Open Target: Where American is Vulnerable to Attack
Executive Director Ed Tracy will discuss Ervin's recently released book, Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack and his first-hand experiences ...
Open Target: Where American is Vulnerable to Attack
Executive Director Ed Tracy will discuss Ervin's recently released book, Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack and his first-hand experiences ...
05.25.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Military impact on the Frontlines of Medicine
Throughout history, the medical profession has literally been in the trenches on the battlefield. This necessary relationship between the military and the medics ...
The Military impact on the Frontlines of Medicine
Throughout history, the medical profession has literally been in the trenches on the battlefield. This necessary relationship between the military and the medics ...
06.01.06
Colin Beavan
Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
On D-Day, three hundred young American and Allied soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines to launch a secret sabotage mission code-named Jedburgh ...
Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War
On D-Day, three hundred young American and Allied soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines to launch a secret sabotage mission code-named Jedburgh ...
06.07.06
Mark Bowden
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy ...
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy ...
06.15.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
George "Bud" Day
George E. "Bud" Day is the nation's most highly decorated soldier since General Douglas MacArthur. In a military career spanning 34 years and 3 wars, Day ...
George "Bud" Day
George E. "Bud" Day is the nation's most highly decorated soldier since General Douglas MacArthur. In a military career spanning 34 years and 3 wars, Day ...
06.22.06
Edwin Bearss
Civil War Night
Edwin Bearss discusses his latest work, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. George Cohen of Booklist recently noted, "Bearss presents the story ...
Civil War Night
Edwin Bearss discusses his latest work, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. George Cohen of Booklist recently noted, "Bearss presents the story ...
06.29.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
Battlefield Ministry: The Chaplain's Challenge
The military chaplain faces extraordinary challenges. Soldiers face life and death situations on a daily basis, yet are often spiritually unprepared for the stress ...
Battlefield Ministry: The Chaplain's Challenge
The military chaplain faces extraordinary challenges. Soldiers face life and death situations on a daily basis, yet are often spiritually unprepared for the stress ...
07.13.06
Nathaniel Fick
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account ...
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account ...
07.20.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Middle East: Crisis and Conflict
With the establishment of a new government in Iraq offering limited amnesty to insurgents, reports of a US strategy to reduce troop levels, and the continuing ...
The Middle East: Crisis and Conflict
With the establishment of a new government in Iraq offering limited amnesty to insurgents, reports of a US strategy to reduce troop levels, and the continuing ...
07.27.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Robert Howard
Colonel Howard served five tours in Vietnam and is the only soldier in our nation's history to be nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor hree times for ...
Robert Howard
Colonel Howard served five tours in Vietnam and is the only soldier in our nation's history to be nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor hree times for ...
09.07.06
Eileen Welsome
The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa - A True Story of Revolution & Revenge
The General and the Jaguar takes a detailed look into the early morning of March 9, 1916, when Pancho Villa launched an attack on Columbus, N.M., an action ...
The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa - A True Story of Revolution & Revenge
The General and the Jaguar takes a detailed look into the early morning of March 9, 1916, when Pancho Villa launched an attack on Columbus, N.M., an action ...
09.14.06
Kathy Roth-Douquet & Frank Schaeffer
AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Services - and How It Hurts Our Country
Military service was once taken for granted as a natural part of good citizenship, and Americans of all classes served during wartime. Not anymore. As Kathy ...
AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Services - and How It Hurts Our Country
Military service was once taken for granted as a natural part of good citizenship, and Americans of all classes served during wartime. Not anymore. As Kathy ...
09.15.06
Gary Moore
Playing With The Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
He was a baseball prodigy. At the age of fifteen, Gene Moore was a boy, playing like a man, in a game where men play like boys. Headed for baseball stardom ...
Playing With The Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
He was a baseball prodigy. At the age of fifteen, Gene Moore was a boy, playing like a man, in a game where men play like boys. Headed for baseball stardom ...
09.21.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Politics of War
With the continued instability in Iraq and the Middle East and the ongoing war on terror, the political implications of war are the dominant theme impacting both ...
The Politics of War
With the continued instability in Iraq and the Middle East and the ongoing war on terror, the political implications of war are the dominant theme impacting both ...
09.28.06
Andrew Carroll
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, In the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families
"Ed Tracy interviews Andrew Carroll, best-selling author and editor of Operation Homecoming. They are joined by two contributors to the book, Clint Douglas and ...
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, In the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families
"Ed Tracy interviews Andrew Carroll, best-selling author and editor of Operation Homecoming. They are joined by two contributors to the book, Clint Douglas and ...
10.05.06
Thomas Ricks
FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts ...
FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts ...
10.12.06
Gary Johnson & Phyllis Rabineau
Chicago history Museum 150th Anniversary
Joining Ed Tracy, executive producer for programs at the Pritzker Military Library, for a special interview is the Chicago History Museum's President, Gary Johnson ...
Chicago history Museum 150th Anniversary
Joining Ed Tracy, executive producer for programs at the Pritzker Military Library, for a special interview is the Chicago History Museum's President, Gary Johnson ...
10.19.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
James Lovell
Captain James A. Lovell joined the space program in 1962 following extensive experience as a Naval Aviator and Test Pilot. Lovell executed various commands in ...
James Lovell
Captain James A. Lovell joined the space program in 1962 following extensive experience as a Naval Aviator and Test Pilot. Lovell executed various commands in ...
10.26.06
Donald L. Miller
Masters Of The Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power ...
Masters Of The Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power ...
11.02.06
Winston Groom
1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
On Thursday, November 2nd, the acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, and Conversations with the Enemy, joins Ed Tracy for ...
1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
On Thursday, November 2nd, the acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, and Conversations with the Enemy, joins Ed Tracy for ...
11.04.06
Edward Longacre & Tom Wheeler
Civil War Saturday
William T. Sherman's burning of Atlanta helped reelect Abraham Lincoln. In contrast, if Confederate President Jefferson Davis had left Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ...
Civil War Saturday
William T. Sherman's burning of Atlanta helped reelect Abraham Lincoln. In contrast, if Confederate President Jefferson Davis had left Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ...
11.09.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Michael Thornton & Thomas Norris
Thomas R. Norris was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His family moved to Wisconsin and later to the Washington, D.C. area, where Norris attended the University of ...
Michael Thornton & Thomas Norris
Thomas R. Norris was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His family moved to Wisconsin and later to the Washington, D.C. area, where Norris attended the University of ...
11.14.06
Alex Kershaw
The FEW: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
By the summer of 1940, World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of ...
The FEW: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
By the summer of 1940, World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of ...
11.16.06
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
WWII Museum; New Orleans, LA
MEDAL OF HONOR SERIES with Ed Tracy. The Pritzker Military Library's Executive Producer, Ed Tracy, hosts a live interview with three of America's most ...
WWII Museum; New Orleans, LA
MEDAL OF HONOR SERIES with Ed Tracy. The Pritzker Military Library's Executive Producer, Ed Tracy, hosts a live interview with three of America's most ...
11.16.06
Patrick K. O'Donnell
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
The battle for Fallujah in November, 2004, was the most intense urban engagement fought by the United States since World War II. It was a battle unlike any other...
We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
The battle for Fallujah in November, 2004, was the most intense urban engagement fought by the United States since World War II. It was a battle unlike any other...
11.30.06
Jeff Shaara
The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he ...
The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he ...
11.30.06
Front & Center with John Callaway
Suicide Bombing: Who, Why and What Can Be Done About It
One of the most challenging weapons used by terrorists is the suicide bomber. Low in cost and highly lethal, suicide bombing has appeared throughout history ...
Suicide Bombing: Who, Why and What Can Be Done About It
One of the most challenging weapons used by terrorists is the suicide bomber. Low in cost and highly lethal, suicide bombing has appeared throughout history ...
12.07.06
Max Boot
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today A sweeping, epic history that ranges from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the War on ...
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today A sweeping, epic history that ranges from the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the War on ...
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