Steve Mrozek

The former National Historian of the 82nd Airborne Division Association for over twenty years, Steve Mrozek had the rare opportunity to interview many of 82nd’s WWII veterans. Steve is the author and contributor of several books related to airborne warfare and has had an extensive historical museum career.  As a paratrooper himself with over 100 parachute jumps to his credit, he retired from a 26-year career in the Army, which included a tour with the 82nd Airborne in Afghanistan. Steve brings a special insight into the soldier's experience and began leading battlefield tours to tell the stories of those who fought there.

Robert Dalessandro

Robert J. Dalessandro is an American historian and author who has written and presented extensively on the American Expeditionary Forces contributions to the First World War.

Dalessandro is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army and the Deputy Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission He is former Director of the United States Army Center of Military History at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. Dalessandro frequently leads battlefield tours to sites in the United States, France and Italy.

Dalessandro is widely published on the lifeways and material culture of the American Soldier in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. He is co-author of the Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917–1923, he serves as editor of the Army Officer’s Guide, co-author of Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, and Contributions of African American Soldiers and the American Lions: the 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I.

His book, Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917–1923 received the Army Historical Foundation award for excellence in writing.

Barbara Whitehead

Barbara J. Whitehead is the A. W. Crandall Professor of History at DePauw University and former Chair of the History Department. She earned her AB in History at Harvard University and her PhD in History from Bryn Mawr College. This educational background fostered a love of early modern Europe that has been the focus of her teaching and writing for over thirty years. At DePauw, Barbara has developed a broad spectrum of courses centered on European history ranging from the Viking Age and Crusades to the European witch hunts, the French Revolution, and the history of happiness. Her research in intellectual history has led to an edited volume on early modern women’s education and publications on forgotten figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. In addition to leading over fifteen academic tours of Europe, Barbara has served as the on-site director of the American Colleges of the Midwest Central European Studies Program in the Czech Republic, where she taught European history. She also taught in the Danish International Studies Program in Copenhagen as a visiting professor. In addition to living in the Czech Republic and Denmark, Barbara has also lived in Rome and Paris.

Paul Sanders

Dr. Paul Sanders is an Anglo-German historian and leadership scholar with special expertise in World War II. Paul obtained his PhD from Cambridge University and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London). His major published works are "The Ultimate Sacrifice", a book on British Channel Islanders in Hitler's prisons and concentration camps (3rd edition, 2018, first published in 1998), "History of the Black Market 1940-1946" (2001, in French), "The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940-1945" (2005), and "Protest, Defiance and Resistance - Channel Islands 1940-1945" (co-published, 2014). He lectures on a broad range of subjects and is currently engaged in research projects on RAF Bomber Command and the Holocaust in Hungary. Previously, Paul served as deputy director of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 and as official historian of the island of Jersey. In 2010 he advised the UK Department of Communities and Local Government in conjunction with the British Heroes of the Holocaust award. One of the accounts he researched for "The Ultimate Sacrifice" was turned into a major film, "Another Mother's Son" (released in March 2017).   

Mitch Yockelson

Mitch Yockelson is an Archives Specialist with the National Archives and Records Administration.  Additionally, Mitch is a professor of military history at Norwich University and the author of many books, articles and reviews. His latest book, The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day through the Normandy Campaign was published by Stackpole in 2020.

Mitch regularly leads battlefield tours and frequently lectures on military history, including Smithsonian Resident Associates. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, PBS and C-SPAN, as well as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Mitch lives in Annapolis, Maryland. 

Cathal Nolan

Cathal J. Nolan is Professor of History and Director Emeritus of the International History Institute at Boston University. He was born in Ireland but grew up in Canada. He moved to the United States in 1995. He is a multiple award-winning teacher of  European diplomatic and political history and world military history, and courses on war in literature and film. His Allure of Battle (Oxford 2018), won the Gilder Lehrman Prize (formerly Guggenheim) as “the best book on military history in the English-speaking world, distinguished by its scholarship, contribution to literature, and appeal to both a general and an academic audience.” It is a warning against hubris and war, spanning 1500 years from the end of Rome through the Hundred Years' War, to the French Revolution and Napoleon, down to the great wars of the 20th century. It is widely read among senior military leaders from Washington to CENTCOM, to Australia and the UK. It was recently cited by General Petraeus in a Washington Post article, and has led to invitations to speak to future war planners at the Pentagon and at several professional military colleges. Among his 14 books are histories of medieval and Reformation religious revolutions and conflicts in Germany, France, and Geneva; a deeply critical history of the long reign of Louis XIV, a four volume but single-author encyclopedia of international relations (law, politics, history, economics), and a two volume history of WWII. His most recent book is Mercy: Humanity in War (Oxford, 2023), a sorrowful study of what the poet Wilfred Owen call “the pity of war.” He has done a half dozen online lectures and podcasts on varied historical topics, and appeared as the main subject expert in the PBS NOVA documentary on Dunkirk. 

Henry Luttikhuizen

Henry Luttikhuizen is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Calvin University (Grand Rapids MI) and Scholar-in-Residence at Grand Valley State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and taught for nearly three decades. Henry has visited France numerous times and has written extensively on medieval art of Normandy. He is a distinguished scholar who has served as the President of the Midwest Art History Society. In his presentations, Henry enhances understanding through clarity and humor. He is committed to the notion that knowledge begins in wonder and lectures in a playful manner that encourages his audiences to re-imagine the past as they engage with the present and consider new possibilities.