Teaching about the Military in American History: A History Institute for Teachers

Teaching About the Military: the Basics

March 24–25, 2007

The First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois

Paul Herbert is Executive Director of the Cantigny First Division Foundation.

Herbert’s lecture is followed by remarks by W.W. Keen Butcher, FPRI Trustee.

On March 24–25, 2007 FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education hosted 44 teachers from 23 states across the country for a weekend of discussion on teaching about the Military in U.S. history. The Institute was held at and co-sponsored by the Cantigny First Division Museum in Wheaton, Ill. The History Institute for Teachers is co-chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall and made possible by a grant from the Annenberg Foundation.

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