What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part I: 1622–1919: A History Institute for Teachers

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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
The Mexican-American War
Paul Springer, US Military Academy
Multimedia: Paul Springer on The Mexican-American War
The Civil War
Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University 
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 Frontier Years
Keynote: The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War 
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 University 
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
Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
Paul Herbert
Paul Dickler
Multimedia: Panel on Teaching American Military History