Military History Articles, Podcasts & Videos – American & World Wars

A New History of King Philip’s War – Podcast

Lisa Brooks to help us re-examine and re-think what we know about King Philip’s War by introducing us to new people, new ways we can look at known historical sources, and to different ways we can think about what we know about this event with details from her book Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War.

Lisa Brooks, Ben Franklin’s World, Episode 191

After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence – Podcast

Don Glickstein, author of After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence, takes us on a whirlwind and global tour of the fighting that took place after Yorktown.

Don Glickstein, Ben Franklin’s World, Episode 81

British Soldiers, American War – Podcast

Don N. Hagist, independent scholar and author of British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution, leads us on exploration of the other men who fought in the American War for Independence, the soldiers in the British Army.

Don Hagist, Ben Franklin’s World, Episode 147

A U.S. Senator speaks out against war with Mexico 1847

Senator Thomas Corwin, in “American history told by contemporaries” ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart.

“Badly Whipped He Will Be”

Steven W. Sears, HistoryNet.com

After Amputation- Civil War Prosthetics

Moyra Williams Schauffler, National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Confederate Submarine H .L. Hunley: First in History to Sink an Enemy Ship in Wartime

Mark K. Ragan, in Sea History Magazine

Getting the Civil War Right

Did America’s most divisive war start over slavery or state’s rights? James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, says that too many people, including educators, get it wrong.

James W. Loewen, SPLC: Learning for Justice

Sherman’s March to the Sea, in his own words

Personal Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman (1890)

Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War

The American Civil War claimed more than 620,000 American lives. It also cost American forests, landscapes, cities, and institutions. We explore the different types of ruination wrought by the Civil War with Megan Kate Nelson, author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War.

Megan Kate Nelson, Ben Franklin’s World, Episode 63

The American Civil War – Podcast

The Civil War stands as an important, watershed event in United States history. We discuss the event with Civil War historian Ari Kelman , author of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War and the McCabe Greer Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University.

Ari Kelman, Ben Franklin’s World, Episode 72

Escaped Union Prisoners of War – Video

Professor and author Lorien Foote talked about the Union soldiers who escaped from Confederate prison camps. This talk was part of the annual conference hosted by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

Lorien Foote, C-Span 2017

“American Imperialism and the Philippine War”

Daniel Jacob Panitch Wertz, Wesleyan University. Honors Thesis

American Imperium

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper’s 2016

Conversation with former Secretary of the Army: Clifford L. Alexander Jr.

Staff, Military History Magazine 2017

From Syria to Black Lives Matter, Three ways WWI still shapes America

John Blake, CNN 2017

My Lai Massacre: How Seymour Hersh uncovered the slaughter of Vietnamese by U.S. soldiers

Ian Shapira, Washington Post 2018

Aleut Story – Documentary Film

From World War II to contemporary Washington DC, this poignant documentary recounts the incredible story of Aleut Americans’ decades-long struggle for human and civil rights. After Japan invaded the western Aleutian islands in 1942, the U.S. government sent hundreds of Aleut Americans to abysmal and isolated internment camps in southwest Alaska. 1 hr. 24 min.

SnagFilms 2017

Berlin and Potsdam after the Apocalypse – Video

30-minute color film of Berlin and Potsdam immediately after WWII ended. Incredible devastation.

Konstantin von zur Mahlen, Vimeo Films

Why Vietnam? Video

1965 Dept. of Defense film for public information.

U.S. Dept of Defense 1965

Bush’s War Part 1 – Video

“On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, FRONTLINE unfolds the full saga of the war in a two-part, definitive broadcast.
Aired: 03/24/08, 2h 25m 32s

Frontline, PBS 2008

Bush’s War Part 2 – Video

The inside story of the war that will define a presidency — a war that no one expected, and no one planned for.
Aired: 03/25/08, 1h 56m 1s

Frontline, PBS 2008

10 Amazing And Successful Military Deception Operations

Jonathan H. Kantor, Listverse

Classic examples of Japanese armor – From ancient foot soldiers to 19th century Samurai

Ian Harvey, Vintage News

Il Fior di Battaglia: A Renaissance Fighting Manual

The Morgan Library and Museum

A Day In The Life Of A Munitions Worker

Several short videos of workers; mainly women.

Staff, Imperial War Museum 2018

5 Special Operations Executive Missions That Put James Bond To Shame

Gina Dimuro, ATI 2017

A Wordly War: Battle Experiences through the Eyes of African Cultures – Video talk

This podcast examines the First World War through the lives of African soldiers and labourers. Based on historical fact, it discusses fictional poetry and letters that could have been written by Africans involved in the war. It looks at WW1 through a global perspective – the interaction of peoples from different parts of the world.

University of Oxford

Britain at Sea, New Century – Podcast

Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the twentieth century, when through political, social, technological and economic turmoil, the Navy’s fortunes mirrored those of Britain.

Admiral Lord West, BBC Radio 4 2014. Episode 1 of 15