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The Friends of the National World War II Memorial will sponsor the 10th Annual Haydn Williams World War II Memorial Legacy Lecture on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 9:00 AM at the National Defense University’s Lincoln Hall Auditorium, 260 5th Avenue SW, Fort McNair, Washington, DC.
Hosted annually at the National Defense University as part of the "President's Lecture Series”, the Haydn Williams World War II Memorial Legacy Lecture is an annual public lecture series that features preeminent historians and scholars speaking on the lasting significance and impact of World War II on America and the world.
Previous Legacy Lecturers have included Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson; British author, historian, and broadcaster Sir Max Hastings; U.S. Naval Academy professor and author Dr. Craig Symonds; Stanford University professor and author Dr. David Kennedy; renowned journalist and author Tom Brokaw; Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson; University of Virginia professor and author William Hitchcock; and War Studies at King’s College, London professor and author Dr. Andrew Roberts; and New York Times best-selling author Alex Kershaw.
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The Haydn Williams World War II Memorial Legacy Lecture is made possible through the generous endowment of the late Ambassador F. Haydn Williams, a WWII veteran, former chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission’s WWII Memorial Site and Design Committee, and chairman emeritus of Friends of the National World War II Memorial.
