Portsmouth, Virginia Navy Museum, Norfolk, VA 2009
Lectured on the Navy/Film Industry Relationship

Arts Club of Washington 2009
“The Search for Fred Zinnemann”

GI Film Festival, Washington, DC 2008
“100 Greatest War Movies”

New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2007
Presentation for “Forum on the Vietnam Era”

American Film Institute, Silver Spring, MD 2007
Commentator for Fred Zinnemann Retrospective

Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 2006
Commentary on Dr. Strangelove

Leo Baeck Institute, New York 2006
Changing Images of Germany and the Holocaust in Hollywood Films

Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005
Introduced Two-Day Program onWorld War II Documentaries

Library of Congress, Washington, DC 2005
Author Series: “Stars and Stripes on Screen”

Hollywood Heritage Museum 2005
Women in War Movies

Smithsonian American History Museum 2004
“The Making of Battleground”

9 Scholarly Presentations Add to Scholarly Presentations

Film and History Conference, Chicago, IL 2008
“Curtis LeMay: Image and Reality”

National WWII Museum International Conference on WWII, New Orleans, LA 2008
“Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Keynote Speaker

Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2007
“Fred Zinnemann’s Portrayal of Death”

Popular Culture Association, Boston MA 2007
“Changing Images of Women in Military Movies”

Film and History Conference, Dallas, TX 2006
“The Atomic Bomb in Feature Films and Documentaries”

Towson University, Towson, MD, Lecture on the historical reality of 2006
The Longest Day

Dickerson College, Film and Literature Conference, Carlisle, PA 2005
Fred Zinnemann’s “Five Days One Summer, Short Story to Film”

Siena College, World War II Conference, Loudonville, NY 2005
“World War II in Hollywood Films”

Southampton University, Southampton, England 2005
“Conversations with Gods and Lesser People”

Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 2005
“A Short History of War Films” for War on Film symposium

Film and History Conference, Dallas, TX 2004
“An Evening Discussing the Research and Writing of Guts & Glory”
“Fred Zinnemann’s Jackal, Terrorist or Political Assassin”

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2004
Seminar on the Relationship Between the Film Industry and the Military

Popular Culture Association, San Antonio 2004
“Fred Zinnemann and the Salvaging of Germany

10. Add to Media Appearances

Weekend America, PBS produced program 2008
Discussion of War Movies and the Hollywood/Military Relaltionship

CNN International 2007
U.S. and Iranian sea battle, 1988

WOR radio, New York 2005
Author discussed “Stars and Stripes on Screen”

Reston Community Center, Reston, VA 2003

"Cruising the English Canals"

29th Division Reunion, Plymouth, MA 2003
“Hollywood’s Portrayal of D-Day”

Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC 2003
Symposium on the Hollywood/Armed Services Relationship

Reston Community Center, Reston, VA 2003
“Writing Guts & Glory”

The National Archives Symposium, Washington, DC 2003
“Through the Perilous Night: American Presidents & the Coming of War”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2003
“The Silent Origins of the Hollywood/Military Relationship

The National Archives, Washington, DC 2002
“Author Lecture Series: Guts & Glory

The Palm Springs Military Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA 2002
“Hollywood and Aerial Combat”

New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Albuquerque, NM 2002
“The Film Industry and the U.S. Armed Services”

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 2002
“Revising and Expanding Guts & Glory”

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 2002
“The English Canals and Their Restoration”

College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD 2001
“Hollywood’s Portrayal of United States Air Power”

Western Front Association, Aberdeen, Md 1999
“The Marine Corps in World War I Combat Movies”

United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC 1996
"Images of Germany in World War II Hollywood Movies"

Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington, DC 1995
"Hollywood, Germany, and Politics of the Cold War"

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio 1995
"Changing Images of the Military in World War II Films"

The British Interplanetary Society, London, England 1991
"Kennedy, Apollo, and the Columbus Factor"

British Interplanetary Society, “Space `88' Symposium,” Hastings, England 1988
"Images and Reality of Manned Space Flight"

Fairfax County, Va., Public Library 1987-88
Lecturer for "World War II: Reality & Remembrance,"

Series funded by National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1987 Panel Member for discussion of the Media and Vietnam