Webcast for Students

What Students Need to Know About War, and Why

Jeremy Black

February 25, 2009

As Elihu Root once put it, we study war “not to promote war, but to preserve peace.” Indeed, it is impossible for students to learn US or world history without frequent reference to war. So in this webcast, we interviewed one of the world’s most distinguished historians of war and enabled students from the online and live audiences to “interrogate” our guest as well.

Alan Luxenberg, director of FPRI’s Wachman Center, interviewed Jeremy Black, professor of history at Exeter University (United Kingdom) and a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Prof. Black is author of many books, including Great Military Campaigns and Their Leaders (Thames and Hudson, 2008); America as a Military Power 1775–1882 (Praeger, 2002); War: An Illustrated World History (Sutton, 2003). and World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003).

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Morning Session

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