American History Gazette

Robert F. Williams is a historian with the Army University Press and Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A former airborne infantry non-commissioned officer, he has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of the newly released "The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army."Get a copy of the book: https://a.co/d/al3lTXARob's website: https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-airborne-mafia-organizational-culture-and-institutional-change-in-the-u-s-army-1940-65/Subscribe, like, and hit the bell for more American history!Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/AmericanHistoryGazette?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkOur website: https://www.americanhistorygazette.com/Email us for inquires: [email protected]:00 Intro

0:24 Importance of history

9:47 Why write the book

14:41 Rob's experience in the airborne divisions

20:22 What do airborne divisions do?

23:47 Origins of the airborne divisions

35:05 Soldiers become celebrities

44:20 How airborne divisions changed the army

49:07 Civil-military relations

55:41 The culture of airborne divisions

1:06:54 Vietnam War

Jonathan D. Reich MD M Sc is the author of the newly released "A Convenient Villain: Charles A. Lindbergh's Remarkable and Controversial Legacy Preparing the U.S. for War."Get a copy of the book: https://a.co/d/9OeJ2HpSubscribe, like, and hit the bell for more American history!Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/AmericanHistoryGazette?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkOur website: https://www.americanhistorygazette.com/Email us for inquires: [email protected]:00 Intro0:31 About the author2:54 Was Lindbergh an antisemite?21:32 Truth29:07 First modern celebrity34:59 Transatlantic flight49:11 Visiting Nazi Germany1:01:47 Nazi Germany intel1:12:46 America First movement1:20:15 Lindbergh's military service

Thomas Schwartz is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States, with related interests in American politics, the history of international relations. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the German Historical Society, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Center for the Study of European Integration. He has served as President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and served on the United States Department of State’s Historical Advisory Committee as the representative of the Organization of American Historians from 2005-2008.Get a copy of his book: https://a.co/d/hEMJSh5Subscribe, like, and hit the bell for more American history!Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/AmericanHistoryGazette?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkOur website: https://www.americanhistorygazette.com/Email us for inquires: [email protected]:00 Intro0:17 History4:42 LBJ and the Vietnam War12:58 Nixon and Vietnam20:38 Nixon and Kissinger controversy26:08 Idealist vs realist32:44 Living through the Cold War37:24 Nixon vs Reagan41:34 Nixon China visit1:00:39 Watergate1:02:00 Kissinger and foreign policy1:13:16 Historical figures

Don Stinson is the author of "Downstairs at the White House," his true story of loitering outside the Oval Office as a teenage clerk during Watergate.

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0:00 Intro0:22 The memoir29:08 Vietnam War38:47 The White House58:09 Nixon1:20:03 Watergate1:39:58 Gerald Ford1:54:15 The famous unmarked book2:00:34 Washington DC

Keith Saliba is a professor at Jacksonville University and he is the author of "Death in the Highlands: The Siege of Special Forces Camp Plei Me" and "Crucible 1972: The War for Peace in Vietnam."

Paul Zigo is a former professor at Brooksdale Community College and he is the director of the WWII Era Studies Institute.

Jason Bohm is a retired United States Marine Corps major general who last served as the Inspector General of the Marine Corps, Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, and as the Chief of Staff of the Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He is also the author of Washington's Marines: The Origin of the Corps and the American Revolution.

Jeff Fynn-Paul is an economic historian at Leiden University and he is the author of “Not Stolen: The Truth about European Colonialism in the New World.”

Jason Emerson is an award-winning Lincoln scholar and general historian. He is the author or editor of eight books and nearly fifty articles. He has lectured around the country from the Library of Congress to the Florida State Book Fair to the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California, and everywhere in between. He is also the man who found the lost Mary Lincoln insanity letters that historians have been searching for for almost 100 years.

Spencer A. Klavan is associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books, host of the Young Heretics podcast, and author of "Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith."