Truman's Perspective: MacArthur's Relief at 75
On April 11, 2026, the MacArthur Memorial marked the 75th anniversary of President Truman’s relief of General MacArthur with a half‑day symposium examining the event from both leaders’ perspectives an...
20 Apr 38min
Rose Valland and The Art Front
Many listeners are familiar with the Monuments Men and Women - the Allied military personnel who protected cultural treasures during World War II and then aided in post-war restitution. Rose Valland, ...
26 Mar 44min
The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
In the darkest days of World War II, two towering figures stood as the living embodiments of national defiance: Winston Churchill, the aristocratic bulldog of Great Britain, and Charles de Gaulle, the...
13 Mar 34min
The Chronicle of the 34th Naval Construction Battalion
On Friday, February 19, 2026, the MacArthur Memorial hosted a virtual event featuring Dr. Frank Blazich Jr., Curator of Military History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American. Dr. Blazich sha...
24 Feb 1h 4min
MacArthur Q&A: Part IV
In this latest episode, MacArthur Memorial historians Jim Zobel and Amanda Williams answer some of the more popular and/or unique questions about General MacArthur we have received from MacArthur Memo...
26 Jan 34min
Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral Bells
On August 9, 1945, a second atomic bomb detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, roughly 1600 feet away from the original Urakami Cathedral. The blast killed dozens inside the cathedral, and over...
19 Des 202517min
MacArthur and the Corps of Engineers + Bonus Q&A
Douglas MacArthur was in the Corps of Engineers from 1903 to 1917. D. Clayton James, a MacArthur biographer, titled a chapter and a sub-chapter about this period of MacArthur's career: "The Travels an...
13 Des 202534min
MacArthur and West Point
MacArthur had a deep, lifelong connection to West Point. In this episode, Sherman Fleek, author of MacArthur and West Point: How the General and the Academy Shaped Each Other, joined the MacArthur Mem...
19 Nov 202549min
