A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Teaching About the Military in American History
A nation must think before it acts.
Teaching About the Military in American History
Date : Sat., March 24, 2007 to Sun., March 25, 2007 Category : Butcher History Institute
FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to cooperate with the Cantigny First Division Foundation in sponsoring a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers on “Teaching about the Military in American History.” This program is especially designed for high school social studies and history teachers and curriculum supervisors. We also invite JROTC instructors to apply.
Teaching About the Military in American History Conference Summary by Trudy Kuehner
Topics and Speakers
War and the Military in American History
Co-Chair - Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy
Alloy Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
Author of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828
Related Article(s):
War and the Military in American History
Teaching about the Military: The Basics
Ph.D., Colonel, US Army ( Ret.), Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation
Related Article(s):
Teaching About the Military: Some Basics
Teaching the Classics: What Americans Can Learn from Herodotus and Thucydides
Jay P. Walker Professor of American History, University of Tulsa
Related Article(s):
Teaching the Classics: What Americans Can Learn from Herodotus
Understanding the Creation of the U.S. Armed Forces
Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Related Article(s):
Understanding the Creation of the U.S. Armed Forces
Keynote Address
Author of In the Company of Soldiers and The Army at Dawn
The Social Dimensions of the U.S. Civil War
Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University
Author of The Virginia Campaign: May—June 1864
Related Article(s):
The Social Dimensions of the U.S. Civil War
Related Multimedia:
The Social Dimensions of the US Civil War
WWII and Its Meaning for Americans
Co-Chair - Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy
Author of Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945
Related Article(s):
World War II and Its Meaning for Americans
The U.S. and Unconventional War
Professor of History, Texas A & M University
Location
Venue
First Division Museum at Cantigny
IL Wheaton 60189
Registration links
Register Deadline
What Participants Receive:
Social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors and junior college faculty are invited to apply for participation in the History Institute. 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 $250 in exchange for curriculum units based on the History Institute, plus a representative selection of student work;
- partial travel reimbursements (up to $250) 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.