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August 30, 2023

“Trip”: Marshall’s Short-Haired Terrier

August 30, 2023

Marshall at VMI

August 30, 2023

Marshall and the Invasion of Poland

This article originally appeared on September 1, 2017. September 1 marks the anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, the act…

August 23, 2023

Gratitude and Goodwill: The Story of Gen. Marshall’s Norwegian Elkhound

August 2, 2023

Gen. George C. Marshall, Dog Sitter

August 1, 2023

The Manhattan Project

August 1, 2023

General Marshall in the Movies

July 28, 2023

The Marshall Foundation Talks “Oppenheimer”

July 25, 2023

How to Follow the Life and Travels of General George C. Marshall

An interactive map tracking over 130 events in the life and career of George C. Marshall is now available on…

VideosView All

July 5, 2023

Now Available: Feathered Messengers: Homing Pigeons of the American Expeditionary Forces

June 5, 2023

Legacy Lecture: Feathered Messengers: Homing Pigeons of the American Expeditionary Forces

April 25, 2023

Legacy Lecture – The Untold Story of Anna Rosenberg

March 9, 2023

Live Legacy Lecture: The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line

December 21, 2022

Legacy Lecture: The Christmas Truce

November 1, 2022

Code Name Arcadia: The First Wartime Conference of Churchill and Roosevelt

September 29, 2022

The Doolittle Raid and Justice for Axis War Crimes

September 13, 2022

“An Army on Alert”: The Cold War Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-55

July 25, 2022

Marshall and the Birth of Modern American Battle

World War IIView All

August 30, 2023

Marshall and the Invasion of Poland

This article originally appeared on September 1, 2017. September 1 marks the anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, the act…

August 1, 2023

The Manhattan Project

August 1, 2023

General Marshall in the Movies

July 28, 2023

The Marshall Foundation Talks “Oppenheimer”

July 24, 2023

Marshall, Groves, and the Atomic Bomb

July 11, 2023

Gen. Marshall and Gen. Groves, August 1945

June 15, 2023

The National D-Day Memorial

June 7, 2023

D-Day +6

Gen. George C. Marshall and other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff left Washington, D.C., just after D-Day on…

May 24, 2023

D-Day for Staff Sgt. Richard H. Hobbs

My father, Richard H. Hobbs, joined the Washington, D.C. National Guard as a military policeman in 1938, when he was…

Did You Know?View All

August 30, 2023

Marshall at VMI

August 23, 2023

Gratitude and Goodwill: The Story of Gen. Marshall’s Norwegian Elkhound

August 2, 2023

Gen. George C. Marshall, Dog Sitter

July 25, 2023

How to Follow the Life and Travels of General George C. Marshall

An interactive map tracking over 130 events in the life and career of George C. Marshall is now available on…

July 24, 2023

Marshall, Groves, and the Atomic Bomb

July 7, 2023

On the Steps

July 5, 2023

Now Available: Feathered Messengers: Homing Pigeons of the American Expeditionary Forces

May 4, 2023

George Marshall and Queen Elizabeth II, on Her 70th Anniversary as Queen

April 24, 2023

Marshall and the Knutsford Affair

This is a previously published blog. At the opening of a British Welcome Club for American soldiers in Knutsford, England,…

The Marshall PlanView All

August 23, 2023

Gratitude and Goodwill: The Story of Gen. Marshall’s Norwegian Elkhound

January 12, 2023

Men and Women Behind Secretary of State George Marshall

January 4, 2023

Marshall and the Plan: Testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

This article was originally posted January 12, 2018. On January 8, 1948, Secretary of State George C. Marshall was the…

January 13, 2022

A Modern Haus for Marshall

September 16, 2021

Robert Lovett: A Man of Character and Ability

The main library room at the George C. Marshall Foundation is called the “Lovett Reading Room,” and there is a…

December 8, 2020

George C. Marshall (author of the Marshall Plan)’s Left Ear

I'm interested in the way Americans learn to be Americans, acutely aware as I age that we are born into…

April 3, 2020

Anniversary of the Signing of the Marshall Plan

With the quick strokes of a pen, seventy-two years ago today, President Harry S. Truman changed the course of world…

February 16, 2018

Marshall and The Fight For The European Recovery Plan

Seventy years ago this week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) continued to work on approving the details of the…

February 24, 2017

Marshall and the Plan: The Princeton Speech

Seventy years ago, newly appointed Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivered remarks at Princeton University on the occasion of…

Marshall MagazineView All

January 1, 2023