Civilian Control of the Military and American Democracy
A History Institute for Teachers
Saturday and Sunday, April 2–3, 2011
The First Division Museum at Cantigny
1 S. 151 Winfield Road
Wheaton, Illinois
Sponsored by
FPRI’s Wachman Center, in association with the Cantigny First Division Foundation, is proud to be presenting their sixth weekend-long conference for teachers on subjects in military history. On April 2-3, we will be focusing on the history and philosophy of civil-military relations in the United States. As FPRI Senior Fellow Mackubin Owens writes in his new book on the subject, "The United States has been fortunate in that its military has successfully defended the Republic on the battlefield while avoiding threats to civilian control. . . . But tensions have always existed . . ." The recent episode involving Gen. Stanely McChrystal is but the latest instance. FPRI and the Cantigny First Division Foundation are proud to feature the leading scholars and practitioners on the subject.
E-mail lux@fpri.org for more information.
Topics and Speakers
- Welcoming Remarks
- Paul Herbert, Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation
- Walter A. McDougall, Co-Chair, FPRI History Institute, and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
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- The Philosophical Basis of Civilian Control of the Military
- Maj. Gen. (ret.) Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Duke University School of Law
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- Civil-Military Relations and the American Founding
- Richard Kohn, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Rise to Globalism and the Changing Role of the Military in American Politics
- Karl Walling, Naval War College
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- Supreme Command and Wartime Civil-Military Relations
- Mackubin Thomas Owens, Naval War College/FPRI
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- Future Trends in American Civil-Military Relations
- Don M. Snider, United States Army War College/United States Military Academy
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- The Military and Society in America
- John Allen Williams, Loyola University Chicago/IUSAFS
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- Gen. George C. Marshall and the Development of a Professional Military Ethic
- General Josiah Bunting, head of ISI-Lehrman American Studies Center
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Additional Information
For information about future and previous programs visit: http://www.fpri.org/education/historyinstitutes.html
For information about FPRI's Military History program visit: http://www.fpri.org/education/militaryhistory/
Previous History Institutes on Military History
- The Role Of The Military In America's (Domestic) History, April 10–11, 2010
The First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois
- What Students Need to Know about America’s Wars, Part II: 1920–Present, May 2–3, 2009
The First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois
- Teaching the Nuclear Age, March 28-29, 2009
Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
- What Students Need to Know about America’s Wars (Part I), July 26–27, 2008
The First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois
- America in the Civil War Era, 1829–77, May 17–18, 2008
Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Teaching Military History: Why and How,
September 29–30, 2007
First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois
- Teaching about the Military in American History, March 24–25, 2007
First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois
- Teaching 9/11 and the War on Terrorism, October 15–16, 2005
The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- Teaching the Vietnam War, keynoted by George Herring, May 6–7, 2000
The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- The Cold War Revisited, keynoted by John Lewis Gaddis, May 2–3, 1998
The American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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