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, 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, covered the colonial wars through World War I; the second part, scheduled for May 2–3, 2009, will cover World War II through the present.

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

Topics and Speakers

The Gathering Storm: From World War I to World War II
Williamson Murray, US Naval Academy
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

The conference begins at 8:50 am CT on Saturday, May 2 and concludes at 1:00 pm CT on Sunday, May 3, 2009.

What Participants Receive

Social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors and faculty at junior colleges are nvited to apply for participation in the History Institute. Forty participants will be selected to receive

How to Apply

Please email to lux@fpri.org a résumé and a short statement describing your current teaching or professional assignments, your reasons for wanting to attend, and how your students or school district will benefit from your participation. NOTE: At the time of application, you are asked to make a commitment either to prepare a curriculum unit based on the weekend or to do in-service activities based on the weekend for a professional educational association.

Schools with a school membership in FPRI’s Wachman Center are guaranteed one place at one History Institute weekend per year. For information about school membership, contact lux@fpri.org.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 1, 2009

Video

Video of the entire conference will be posted subsequently on our website at this URL.

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.

FPRI Wishes to Thank its 2011 Partners
Who help make all our programs possible.

On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

FPRI 2011 Annual Dinner

Video of keynote address
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

FPRI Dinner Booklet and Annual report