A nation must think before it acts.
What Students Need to Know About America’s Wars, Part I: 1622-1919
Date : Sat., July 26, 2008 to Sun., July 27, 2008 Category : Butcher History Institute
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.
See What Students Need to Know About America’s Wars, Part II: 1920–Present
What Students Need to Know about America’s Wars, Part I Conference Summary by Trudy Kuehner
Topics and Speakers
Welcoming Remarks
Executive Director
Alan LuxenbergDirector - Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy
The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi
Related Article(s):
The Importance of Early American Military History
The Mexican-American War
U.S. Military Academy
Related Article(s):
What American Students Need to Know about the Mexican War
The Civil War
Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
Related Article(s):
The American Civil War and Civic Virtue
The Frontier Years
Dean, School of Intelligence Studies, National Defense Intelligence College
Related Article(s):
What Students Need to Know about the Frontier Wars
Keynote: The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War
Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
Professor of History and Claudius M. Easley, Jr., Faculty Fellow Texas A & M University
Related Article(s):
The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
WWI
University of Southern Mississippi
Related Article(s):
What Students Need to Know about WWI
Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
Executive Director
Paul DicklerSenior Fellow - Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy
Neshaminy High School
Location
Venue
First Division Museum at Cantigny
IL Wheaton 60189
Registration links
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What Participants Receive:
Forty participants will be selected to receive:
- free room and board;
- assistance in designing curriculum and special projects based on the History Institute;
- stipends of $300 for well-developed lesson plans for posting on our website that effectively utilize the experience of the weekend conference, or documentation of in-service presentations based on the weekend;
- partial travel reimbursements (up to $300) for participants outside the vicinity of the conference center;
- subscription to Orbis, FPRI’s journal of world affairs; E-Notes, FPRI’s weekly bulletin; and Footnotes, FPRI’s bulletin for high school teachers.
- a certificate of participation in a program offering 12 hours of instruction. In addition, for those interested, college credit is available for a small fee through our cooperating institution, Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.