Flint Whitlock
Author / Historian
CO Author’s Hall of Fame
FlintWhitlock.com
Flint's presentations include:
Colorado in the Civil War. The little-known story of how soldiers from the Colorado Territory were recruited, trained, and deployed to stop a Confederate invasion force at Glorieta Pass in New Mexico in March 1862.
Liberating Dachau in WWII. Details the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp by a battalion of soldiers from Colorado’s National Guard unit.
Colorado’s Skiing Soldiers in WWII. Describes how 14,000 young skiers and mountaineers were trained in Colorado, and never lost a battle in Italy; then came back to kick-start America’s skiing boom.
Gail Beaton
Author / Historian
Chautaugua Presenter
GailBeaton.com
Colorado's "Rosie the Riveter."
Gail provides wonderful in-character presentations of Gail Murphy: Colorado’s Rosie the Riveter, a composite character created to present women’s contributions to the war effort. (See a preview at our "Featured Presentations" page)
She also presents “Sarah Platt Decker: National Women’s Club Leader and Colorado Suffragist."
David Barrett
Author / Historian
onewithhistory.com
David's presentations include:
140 Days to Hiroshima. During the closing months of World War II, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence while developing history’s deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day.
Unit 731: The final months of World War II saw the ghastly liberation of hundreds of concentration camps. Far less known was the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese by the Japanese under an organization known as UNIT 731.
An new article awaiting publisher approval:
Did you know? . . .
In World War II the Japanese successfully bombed the U.S. mainland as well as Canada, killing several U.S. citizens, and in a twist of supreme irony, one bomb temporarily shut down a U.S. nuclear weapons facility prior to Hiroshima.
