Dan Desko, founder and CEO of the B-25 History Project, recounts the value of America’s B-25 bomber to Allied efforts in World War II. Manufactured in Kansas City, Kansas, the aircraft saw perhaps its most notable action in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April 1942.

This year, prepare yourself for CAGE MATCH, a monthly pairing of two Nicolas Cage movies engaged in epic cinematic combat. Which films will be screened? That’s to be decided by YOU, the voting public.

Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial role that women – ordinary citizens at the grassroots level – played in its passage. Her presentation comes on the eve of Women’s Equality Day on August 26.