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:
2026
September 8 HARRY YEIDE, Author of BETTING AGAINST AMERICA, will show how Axis Powers misunderstood the ‘Sleeping Giant’ and its resolve to maintain a Peaceful World as it was emerging from the Depression
September 22 GARRETT GRAFF, Author of THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY, will show how the Secret construction of the Facilities at Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Sandia supported the Manhattan Project and the US into the Atomic Age
October 13 DAVID WILLIAMS, Author of THE ROAD TO CISTERNA, describes the founding of the Rangers by William Darby and the large number of members who came out of the 34th Division from Minnesota and Iowa
October 27 RICHARD SHERMAN, Author of NEVER HOME, will show the cemeteries of the American Battle Monuments Commission around the world where our Service members are buried and some significant facts about some Veterans interred in them
November 10 THE DR. HAROLD C. DEUTSCH LECTURE: JONATHAN JORDAN, Author of IKE AND WINSTON, analyzes the relationship that was forged between the Supreme Commander and the British Prime Minister to execute the WWII Strategy and manage the Field Commanders of the Combined Allied Headquarters
December 8 MARK STILLE, Author of PEARL HARBOR, has written a comprehensive new analysis of the Japanese attack on December 7th and how the Initial disastrous results were turned into a Final defeat for Japan
2027
January 12 CRAIG LUTHER, Author of GUDERIAN’S PANZERS, highlights the operations of the 2nd Panzer Group to show the successes of Barbarossa in 1941 to the reversals that led to the collapse of the German Army as the Soviet Military gained the initiatives
February 9 BRIAN JOHNSON, Author of THROUGH BLOOD AND BROTHERHOOD, will discuss the much overlooked events in Yugoslavia by the Tito Partisans as it disrupted the Nazi Operational Planning AND JOHN CAPPELLO, founder of the HALYARD MISSION Foundation, will tell how the Serbs assisted rescue of 100s of downed US Airmen
March 9 ERIC SETZEKORN, Author of UNCERTAIN ALLIES, will describe the military events In the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) that attempted to stop the occupation of India by the Japanese by the Leadership of Joseph Stillwell, Claire Chennault and Merrill’s Marauders
March 23 SARA VLADIC, Author of THE DANGEROUS SHORE, talks about many unlikely Heroes who have been largely overlooked that prevented the disastrous invasion of our sovereign shores
April 13 JONATHAN HORN, Author of THE FATE OF THE GENERALS, describes the events of the Battle of the Philippines, the subsequent surrender, and the relations between Generals MacArthur and Wainwright AND A Historian of the Brainerd Tank Company who will talk about their capture and subsequent brutal POW experiences
April 27 (Bonus Program) VINCENT O’HARA, Author of THE GREATEST NAVAL WAR EVER FOUGHT, unfolds the Global impact of the War fought on the waterways in all Theaters of hostilities in Europe and Asia
May 11 KEVIN HYMEL, Author of PATTON – Volume 3, will tell the final years of the life of General Patton, from the closing attacks in the Battle of Bulge to the automobile accident that resulted in his death and the decision to select Luxemburg as the site for his internment
JOIN US FOR OUR SPRING TOUR TO France, Luxembourg, Germany sites, including Paris, Compiegne, Reims, Verdun, Maginot Line, Luxemburg Cemetery, Huertgen Forest, Fort Eban-Emael, Battle of the Bulge, Henri Chappel Cemetery, See Brochure TBD.
(exact dates TBD: ??APRIL-??MAY2027)