What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part I: 1622–1919: A History Institute for Teachers

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Saturday and Sunday, July 26–27, 2008

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, held in July 2008, covered the colonial wars through World War I; the second part, to be scheduled for 2009, will cover World War II through the present.

Conference Report

Topics and Speakers:

Welcoming Remarks
Paul Herbert, Executive Director, First Division Museum
Alan Luxenberg, Director, FPRI’s Wachman Center
The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
Kyle Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
Multimedia: Kyle Zelner on The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History
Slides for Early American Military History, 1607–1783 (8.8MB Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
The Importance of Early American Military History, FPRI FootNotes, Kyle F. Zelner, 8/2008
The Mexican-American War
Paul Springer, US Military Academy
Multimedia: Paul Springer on The Mexican-American War
Slides for the Mexican War: What Students Need to Know (5.7MB Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
Mexican War Reading Guide
  • What American Students Need to Know About the Mexican War, FPRI FootNotes, 9/2008
    • The Frontier Years
    Vance Skarstedt, Dean, School of Intelligence Studies, National Defense Intelligence College
    Multimedia: Vance Skarstedt on the What Students Should Know About the North American Frontier Wars
    Slides for What Students Should Know About the North American Frontier Wars
    What Students Need to Know about the Frontier Wars, FPRI FootNotes, 9/2008
    The Civil War
    Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University 
    Multimedia: Mark Grimsley on the Civil War
    Keynote: The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War 
    Peter Karsten, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
    Multimedia: Peter Karsten on The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War
    The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
    Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History and Claudius M. Easley, Jr., Faculty Fellow Texas A & M University 
    Multimedia: Brian McAllister Linn on The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War
    The Spanish-American War and the Philippine War, FPRI FootNotes, 9/2008
    WWI
    Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
    Multimedia: Michael Neiberg on World War I
    What Students Need to Know about World War I, FPRI FootNotes, 8/2008
    Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
    Paul Herbert
    Paul Dickler
    Multimedia: Panel on Teaching American Military History

    Classroom Lessons

    Social History Outcomes of Early American Wars (48K Microsoft Word document)
    Bridget Leiskau Dickler, St. Joseph’s School
    The Mexican War and the Iraq War (2003–): A Comparison (54K Microsoft Word document)
    Paul Dickler, FPRI
    World War I: Total War as Seen in Poster Propaganda (40K Microsoft Word document)
    Martha Kinney, Suffolk County Community College (Grant Campus), Brentwood NY
    End of the Colonia Era Newspaper Assignment (37K Microsoft Word document)
    Greg Stock, Centennial High School, Champaign, Illinois
    Native Americans Leaders (46K Microsoft Word document)
    Bernadette Parsons
    Patriotism, Civic Virtue, and the Citizen-Soldier (35K Microsoft Word document)
    Slides for Patriotism, Civic Virtue, and the Citizen-Soldier (79K Microsoft Word document)
    Col. W.P. Symolon, USMC (Ret.), Apopka High School, Apopka, Florida