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

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, in July 2008, will cover the colonial wars through World War I; the second part, to be scheduled for 2009, will cover World War II through the present.

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Saturday, July 26

(For those staying overnight on Friday, breakfast is on your own. The bus to the conference center will leave the hotel at 10:00 a.m. Please be prompt.)

9:45 a.m. (Central Time): Bus from Hotel to Conference Center
10:15 a.m. Registration and Refreshments (Traveling Gallery-Cantigny)
10:50 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
Paul Herbert, Executive Director, First Division Museum 
Alan Luxenberg, Director, FPRI’s Wachman Center
11:00 a.m. The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
Kyle Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
11:50 a.m. Q&A
12: 15 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. The Mexican-American War
Paul Springer, US Military Academy
1:50 p.m. Q&A
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. The Civil War
Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University 
3:20 p.m.  Q&A
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. The Frontier Years
Vance Skarstedt, Dean, School of Intelligence Studies, National Defense Intelligence College
4:50 p.m Q&A
5:15 p.m. Break
5:30 Tour of the Museum and Gardens
6:45 Reception and Dinner, Les Jardin Restaurant (in the Museum’s new Visitors Center)
8:00 Keynote The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War 
Peter Karsten, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
8:45 Q&A
9:15 Bus to Hotel

Sunday, July 27

(For those staying overnight, breakfast is on your own. The bus to the conference center will leave the hotel at 8:00 a.m. Please be prompt—and take your luggage with you to the conference center.)

7:45 a.m. Bus from Hotel to Conference Site
8:30  a.m. 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 
9:15 a.m. Q&A
9:30 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m.   WWI
Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
10:30: Q&A
10:45 Break
11:00: Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
Paul Herbert
Paul Dickler
12:15 p.m. Boxed Lunch and Transportation to Chicago O’Hare Airport will be provided.