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

War and the Military in American History

March 24–25, 2007

The First Division Museum, Wheaton, Illinois

Walter A. McDougall is Co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers. He is Alloy Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828 (HarperCollins, 2004).

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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