September 29–30, 2007

Teaching Military History, Why and How

A History Institute for Secondary School Teachers

At The First Division Museum
1 S. 151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL

Sponsors:

Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education,
A Division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Cantigny First Division Foundation

Conference Report

Speakers and Topics

Welcoming Remarks
Paul Herbert, Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation
Alan Luxenberg, Director, FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
Why Teach Military History?
Jeremy Black, Exeter University (United Kingdom); Senior Fellow, FPRI and author of The Age of Total War, 1860–1945 (Praeger, 2006)
Teaching about War in the Ancient World
Kimberly Kagan, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of War and author of The Eye of Command (University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Thucydides on Strategy and Leadership
Karl Walling, US Naval War College
War and Diplomacy
Angelo Codevilla, Professor of International Relations, Boston University and author of No Victory, No Peace (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)
Warfare and Technology
Martin Van Creveld, Professor, Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University and author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Cambridge, 2004)
The First Division at War: A Case Study
Paul Herbert, Executive Director, First Division Museum
War and the East
Andrew Wilson, US Naval War College
War and the West
Williamson Murray, Institute for Defense Analyses and author of The Iraq War: A Military History (Harvard, 2003)

Classroom Lessons

American Civil War Reading and Discussion Guide (2007), Kathryn Lerch (164K Microsoft Word document)
Analysis of the Battle of Gettysburg (2007), Sam Varsano (49K Microsoft Word document)
The Battle of Bunker Hill: An Intellectual Examination (2007), Amy Moyer (61K Microsoft Word document)
War, Technology, and the Balance of Terror (2007), Ben King

Major funding for the History Institute for Teachers has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation.