This program is a special episode with the senior leaders of the First Army.  First Army carries the critical and complicated mission of partnering with, training and mobilizing the entirety of the nation’s Reserve Component: the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve.

As the sergeant major of the Army, Grinston is the Army chief of staff's personal adviser on matters affecting the enlisted force. He devotes the majority of his time traveling throughout the Army to observe training and interact with Soldiers and their Families. He sits on a variety of councils and boards that make decisions affecting enlisted Soldiers and their Families and routinely invited to testify before Congress. Grinston is the public face of the U.S. Army's Noncommissioned Officer Corps, representing the NCO Corps to the American people in the media and through business and community engagements.

In this Program, we welcome guests from the Army Heritage Center Foundation and the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) to discuss lessons learned from the Gulf War.

In this special episode of Pritzker Military Presents, Dr. Rob Havers sits down with Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy to discuss diversity and inclusion in the United States Army, its history and future.

At 101 years of age at the time of the interview, activist, historian, WWII veteran, Timuel Black, is an ongoing example of service to the American people. He continues to share his stories generously without either nostalgia or bitterness, in order to impart a message of hope to the young. For Mr. Black, the past should be recognized as well as the hard-won civil rights that were gained, while understanding the racial problems of the present day. As Black quotes in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident”.

Renowned military historians and past Pritzker Literature Award recipients, Peter Paret and Gerhard Weinberg, discuss the interdependent relationship between war and society.

From the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War to its final mission to carry the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to the United States in 1921, USS Olympia represents the United States's emergence as a world naval power.

In this episode of Citizen Soldier, renown authors and Vietnam veterans, Tim O’Brien and Karl Marlantes, discuss the difficult moral questions that go hand-in-hand with military conflicts as well as the concept of dehumanizing the “enemy”. These…

Expert panelists on the American Revolution explore the role of George Washington in the American Revolution. Throughout the episode, the  panel discusses and describes how General George Washington first established the citizen soldier tradition in…