Category Archives: Scholars series

“Never Home – Remembering the Military Heroes Who Never Returned” Photographer and former U.S. Navy officer, Richard Sherman, tells the stories of “Never Home – Remembering the Military Heroes Who Never Returned.” Nearly 234,000 American servicemen and women are buried or memorialized at the hallowed sites managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission. 0:18 – […]

Sharpen Your Bayonets: LT GEN John Wilson “Iron Mike” O’Daniel, 3rd Infantry Division Commander in WWII This candid conversation highlights Iron Mike’s atypical career path as an “unlikely general,” the legacy of his unique training programs that prepared new recruits for combat in short order, and the high and low points of his career that […]

The stories of our lives are painted on canvas, sculpted in marble, and remembered in song. They are embodied in our art and architecture. During times of war, people fight to protect their way of life, their culture, and their history. During World War I, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis perpetrated the greatest theft in […]