What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part II: 1920–Present

A History Institute for Teachers

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Saturday and Sunday, May 2–3, 2009

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, was proud to present a two-part series on What Students Need To Know about America’s Wars. The first part, in July 2008, covered the colonial wars through World War I; the second part, May 2–3, 2009, covered World War II through the present.

E-mail lux@fpri.org for more information.

Conference Report

What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part 2— 1920–Present: A History Institute for Teachers
Trudy Kuehner (reporter), 7/2009

Topics and Speakers

Welcoming Remarks
Walter A. McDougall
The Gathering Storm: From World War I to World War II
Williamson Murray, Institute for Defense Analyses
The US Army in World War II
Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn
The US Navy in World War II
James Kurth, Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, and FPRI Senior Fellow
The Korean War
Allan Millett, Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History, University of New Orleans, and Director of the UNO Eisenhower Center for American Studies
Vietnam
Ronald Spector, Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
Gulf War I
LTG (Ret) Bernard Trainor, co-author of The Generals’ War and Cobra II
The Global War on Terrorism
Frank Hoffman, FPRI Senior Fellow and Research Fellow at the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia
The American Culture of War
Adrian Lewis, Professor of History, University of Kansas, and Director, KU Office of Professional Military Graduate Education

Classroom Lessons

The Rise and Fall of South Vietnam: An Examination (72K Microsoft Word document)
Anthony A. Dalasio, Lackawanna Trail Junior-Senior High School, Factoryville, Pennsylvania
U.S. Decision-Making on the Korean War, June 1950 (38K Microsoft Word document)
Ed Robson, Benton Central Junior-Senior High School, Oxford, Indiana
The U.S. Army as an Agent of Social Change in World War II (1.47MB Microsoft Word document)
Kyle T. Hickman, Wheaton Warrenville South High School, Wheaton, Illinois
WWII: A War of Systems (209K PDF)
Chris Krintzline, Clyde High School, Clyde, Ohio
America’s WWII Infantry Heroes
Larry Rogers, School of Imaging and Information Technology, Rochester, NY
Vietnam: Lost Victory or Unwinnable War?
Col. W.P. Symolon, USMC (Ret.), Apopka High School, JROTC Dept., Apopka, Florida

Sponsors

Core funding for these programs has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation. For specific weekends, additional funding has been contributed by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Mr. H.F. Lenfest, and the Stuart Family Foundation. In-kind support is provided by the Cantigny First Division Foundation of the McCormick Foundation.

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Reflections on the Arab Spring
Fouad Ajami

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Al Qaeda and Jihadi Movements After Bin Laden
Christopher Swift

Special Partner Event
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al Qaeda
Peter Bergen

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