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

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

Topics and Speakers:

The Colonial Wars and the Revolutionary War
Kyle Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
The Mexican-American War
Paul Springer, US Military Academy
The Civil War

Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University
The Frontier Years
Vance R. Skarstedt, National Defense Intelligence College
The American Military and Society
Peter Karsten, University of Pittsburgh
The Spanish-American War
Brian McCallister Linn, Texas A & M University
World War I
Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
Teaching American Military History: A Panel Discussion
Paul Herbert (Col., US Army, Ret.), Cantigny First Division Foundation
Paul Dickler, FPRI Wachman Center

The conference begins 11 am CT on Saturday, July 26 and concludes at 1 pm CT on Sunday, July 27, 2008.

Register for Webcast

The History Institute will be broadcast over the web. To sign up to view the webcast, use the link below:

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:


To Apply

Please EMAIL to lux@fpri.org a résumé and a short statement describing your current teaching or professional assignments, your reasons for wanting to attend, and how your students or school district will benefit from your participation. NOTE: At the time of application, you are asked to make a commitment either to prepare a curriculum unit based on the weekend or to do in-service activities based on the weekend.

Schools with a school membership in FPRI’s Wachman Center are guaranteed one place at one History Institute weekend per year. For information about school membership, contact lux@fpri.org.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 15, 2008

If you cannot participate in person, note that portions of the History Institute will also be webcast and will be viewable online at no cost. Videos will be posted subsequently on our website. For information about registering for the webcast, please contact lux@fpri.org.

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