John Lemza

Dr. John Lemza graduated the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served over 20 years in the Army with more than eight years abroad in Asia and Europe. His last assignment was at the Pentagon. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with an MA in History and from George Mason University with a PhD in History. His research interests include post-1945 America, the Cold War, the history of immigration, oral history, military history, and the intersection of history and spirituality. He currently teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a member of the teaching faculty of the Lifelong Learning Institute in Chesterfield, Virginia, where he sits on the Board of Directors, and currently serves as President. He has published two books, American Military Communities in West Germany: Life in the Cold War Badlands, 1945-1990 (2016), and The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen (2021). His third book project, Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade: Forging the Geopolitics of the American Old Right is presently under contract with a release date of late 2023. (179)