2025-26 Schedule

We meet at 7:00pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September through May at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, unless otherwise noted below:

2025

September 9             End of Pacific War – V-J Day Program 80th Anniversary. JOHN McMANUS – Author of TO THE END OF THE EARTH with Hollis Schwartz/Bob Michelson. 

September 23             34th Infantry Division – Camp Cody, 34th HQ with Randall Dietrich / Jim Eckles.

September 24 (WEDS)             TRINITY — 1st Atomic Explosion, with Jim Eckles.

October 14                  FDR – Cabinet and Wallace/Truman  Ben Steil — Author of THE WORLD THAT WASN’T

October 28             Nuremberg Trials 80th Anniv John Q. Barrett — Author of THAT MAN. Senator Rudy Boschwitz

November 11              THE DR. HAROLD C. DEUTSCH LECTURE: The Rise of NAZI Party in 1930’s with David McKean — Author of WATCHING DARKNESS FALL

December 9            Battle of the Bulge with Alex Kershaw — Author of PATTON’S PRAYER

2026

January 13                  Guerilla Warfare in the Philippines James Kelly Morningstar WAR AND RESISTANCE IN PHILIPPINES  Mike Guardia

February 10                   Henry Kaiser and the Liberty Ships, with Steve Gilford, Cargill Historian — Author of BUILD ‘EM BY THE MILE

March 10                       The War in Sicily with Flint Whitlock– Author of OPERATION HUSKY

March 24                     A Journalist Experience in 1930’s Germany with Pamela Toler — Author of DRAGON FROM CHICAGO

April 14                        Doolittle RAID – Plane  #8 with Dan Hampton — Author of VANISHING ACT. With Jim Johns.

May 12                        The Leadership of EISENHOWER with Michel Paradis — Author of THE LIGHT OF BATTLE

JOIN US FOR OUR SPRING TOUR TO ITALY sites, including Sicily, Salerno, Amalfi, Paestum, Maiori, Pompeii. Caserta, Rapido, Casino, San Pietro, Anzio Cemetery, Anzio, Rome, Vatican!
(May xx, 2026 – dates TBD)