What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part I: 1622–1919: A History Institute for Teachers
A History Institute for Teachers
Saturday and Sunday, July 26–27, 2008
The First Division Museum
1 S. 151 Winfield Road
Wheaton, Illinois
Sponsored by
The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center
The Cantigny First Division Foundation
FPRI’s Wachman Center, in association with the Cantigny First Division Foundation, is proud to be presenting over 2008-09 a two-part series on What Students Need To Know about America’s Wars. The first part, held in July 2008, covered the colonial wars through World War I; the second part, to be scheduled for 2009, will cover World War II through the present.
Topics and Speakers:
- Welcoming Remarks
- Paul Herbert, Executive Director, First Division Museum
- Alan Luxenberg, Director, FPRI’s Wachman Center
- The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
- Kyle Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
- Multimedia: Kyle Zelner on The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
- Slides for Early American Military History, 1607–1783 (8.8MB Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
- The Importance of Early American Military History, FPRI FootNotes, Kyle F. Zelner, 8/2008
- The Mexican-American War
- Paul Springer, US Military Academy
- Multimedia: Paul Springer on The Mexican-American War
- Slides for the Mexican War: What Students Need to Know (5.7MB Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
- The Civil War
- Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State UniversityÂ
- Multimedia: Mark Grimsley on the Civil War
- The Frontier Years
- Vance Skarstedt, Dean, School of Intelligence Studies, National Defense Intelligence College
- Multimedia: Vance Skarstedt on the What Students Should Know About the North American Frontier Wars
- Slides for What Students Should Know About the North American Frontier Wars
- Keynote: The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World WarÂ
- Peter Karsten, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
- Multimedia: Peter Karsten on The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War
- The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
- Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History and Claudius M. Easley, Jr., Faculty Fellow Texas A & M UniversityÂ
- Multimedia: Brian McAllister Linn on The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
- WWI
- Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
- Multimedia: Michael Neiberg on World War I
- What Students Need to Know about World War I, Michael Neiberg, 8/2008
- Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
- Paul Herbert
- Paul Dickler
- Multimedia: Panel on Teaching American Military History
Classroom Lessons
- End of the Colonial Era Newspaper Assignment (37K Microsoft Word document)
- Greg Stock, Centennial High School, Champaign, Illinois
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