"To the Best of My Ability" Podcast
1) New Podcast: Making Masters of the Air
Click HERE to follow the new podcast by The National WWII Musuem: Making Masters of the Air. Masters of the Air is an Apple Original series from executive producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacifi...Show More
2) A Day of Infamy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins his third term bid for president, but a foreign crisis brews in the Pacific. Contending with an isolationist movement in America, he maneuvers policies and naval f...Show More
3) An Epidemic of World Lawlessness
In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt inherits a nation amidst The Great Depression, but around the world, fascist powers gain footholds. FDR begins to shape foreign policy through a series of addresses that...Show More
4) 33 Months
In the months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, suspicions around Japanese American citizens began to grow, so much so that in February of 1942, FDR signed executive order 9066, which was used to just...Show More
5) The Temper of the Courts
In February 1946, a California Court heard arguments challenging the practice of segregating students of Mexican descent into “remedial schools for Mexicans.” Sylvia Mendez and her family spent the ne...Show More
6) A Dangerous, Costly and Heartbreaking Process
On February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard was returning home to North Carolina from Camp Gordon in Augusta, GA on a Greyhound bus. Woodard, a decorated veteran of the Pacific theater, asked the driver if th...Show More
7) No Specific and Tangible Evidence
In a January 25, 1946 telegram, General Douglas MacArthur recommended that Hirohito not face a war crimes trial. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo War Crime...Show More
8) Strike Wave
The strike wave of 1945-1946 was a series of large-scale post-war labor strikes in the United States, spanning numerous industries and public utilities. In the year after V-J Day, more than five milli...Show More
9) Duck and Cover
By January 5, 1946, President Truman had had enough. He was tired of Stalin’s aggressive behavior, tired of the Soviet Union establishing “police states” in countries it occupied. In a letter to his S...Show More
10) Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
After more than 20 years living abroad as an expatriate in Italy, poet and Nazi sympathizer Ezra Pound was charged with 19 counts of treason against the United States. During World War II, Pound broad...Show More