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
The Mexican-American War
Paul Springer, US Military Academy
Multimedia: Paul Springer on The Mexican-American War
The Frontier Years
Vance Skarstedt, Dean, School of Intelligence Studies, National Defense Intelligence College
The Civil War
Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University 
Keynote: The American Military and Society, from Revolution through World War 
Peter Karsten, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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 
WWI
Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
Paul Herbert
Paul Dickler

Classroom Lessons

End of the Colonia Era Newspaper Assignment (37K Microsoft Word document)
Greg Stock, Centennial High School, Champaign, Illinois
The Mexican War and the Iraq War (2003–): A Comparison (54K Microsoft Word document)
Paul Dickler, FPRI
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
Social History Outcomes of Early American Wars (48K Microsoft Word document)
Bridget Leiskau Dickler, St. Joseph’s School
Southern Pacification in the Revolutionary War (96K Microsoft Word document)
Lynne Wilbanks, Mountain Brook High School, Alabama
Understanding War (35K Microsoft Word document)
Daniel L. Hicks, Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Illinois
World War I: Total War as Seen in Poster Propaganda (40K Microsoft Word document)
Martha Kinney, Suffolk County Community College (Grant Campus), Brentwood NY