joerookery
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This is not exactly a World War I thing But it might interest some.
"Teaching about the Military in US History" is the subject of a webcast produced by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Cantigny First Division Foundation.
The March 24-25 webcast is free and open to the public but online registration is required in advance for each of two parts of the webcast. Online participants will be able to participate in Q&A.
The agenda appears below.
Agenda
TEACHING ABOUT THE MILITARY
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
A History Institute for Teachers
March 24-25, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
To register for Saturday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840324073143
Saturday, March 24, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
11:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
11: 05 a.m. War and the Military in American History
Walter A. McDougall, Co-chair, FPRI History Institute for Teachers, and the Alloy Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania Author of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 (HarperCollins, 2004)
12:15 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m. Teaching about the Military: The Basics
Paul Herbert, Ph.D., Colonel, US Army ( Ret.), Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Teaching the Classics: What Americans Can Learn from Herodotus and Thucydides
Paul Rahe, Jay P. Walker Professor of American History, University of Tulsa
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Understanding the Creation of the U.S. Armed Forces
Peter Maslowski, Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
5:15 p.m. End of Saturday's webcast
To register for Saturday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840324073143
To register for Sunday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840325073147
Sunday, March 25, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
8:30 a.m. The Social Dimensions of the U.S. Civil War
Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University Author of The Virginia Campaign: May-June 1864 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. WWII and Its Meaning for Americans
David Eisenhower, Co-Chair, FPRI History Institute for Teachers Author of Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 (Random House, 1986)
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. The U.S. and Unconventional War
Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History, Texas A & M University
12:30 p.m. End of Sunday's webcast
To register for Sunday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840325073147
All the lectures above -- PLUS the keynote by Rick Atkinson, author of In the Company of Soldiers and The Army at Dawn -- will be posted on our website shortly after the event. Go to www.fpri.org.
Chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall, FPRI's History Institute for Teachers is supported by major funding from the Annenberg Foundation.
"Teaching about the Military in US History" is the subject of a webcast produced by the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Cantigny First Division Foundation.
The March 24-25 webcast is free and open to the public but online registration is required in advance for each of two parts of the webcast. Online participants will be able to participate in Q&A.
The agenda appears below.
Agenda
TEACHING ABOUT THE MILITARY
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
A History Institute for Teachers
March 24-25, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
To register for Saturday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840324073143
Saturday, March 24, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
11:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
11: 05 a.m. War and the Military in American History
Walter A. McDougall, Co-chair, FPRI History Institute for Teachers, and the Alloy Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania Author of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 (HarperCollins, 2004)
12:15 p.m. Break
1:00 p.m. Teaching about the Military: The Basics
Paul Herbert, Ph.D., Colonel, US Army ( Ret.), Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Teaching the Classics: What Americans Can Learn from Herodotus and Thucydides
Paul Rahe, Jay P. Walker Professor of American History, University of Tulsa
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Understanding the Creation of the U.S. Armed Forces
Peter Maslowski, Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
5:15 p.m. End of Saturday's webcast
To register for Saturday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840324073143
To register for Sunday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840325073147
Sunday, March 25, 2007
All times listed are Central Daylight Time
8:30 a.m. The Social Dimensions of the U.S. Civil War
Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University Author of The Virginia Campaign: May-June 1864 (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. WWII and Its Meaning for Americans
David Eisenhower, Co-Chair, FPRI History Institute for Teachers Author of Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 (Random House, 1986)
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. The U.S. and Unconventional War
Brian McAllister Linn, Professor of History, Texas A & M University
12:30 p.m. End of Sunday's webcast
To register for Sunday's webcast go to:
http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0840325073147
All the lectures above -- PLUS the keynote by Rick Atkinson, author of In the Company of Soldiers and The Army at Dawn -- will be posted on our website shortly after the event. Go to www.fpri.org.
Chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter A. McDougall, FPRI's History Institute for Teachers is supported by major funding from the Annenberg Foundation.
