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)