1. CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR
Chair and Commentator: Margaret Sankey, Minnesota State University Moorhead
“‘The fairest way and with the least amount of fuss’: Hamilton County, Ohio, Draft Boards and the Vietnam War” - James Westheider, Clermont College, and Chris Dixon, University of Newcastle
“This Was Their Finest Hour: The South Dakota National Guard and the Black Hills Flood, 1972” - Steven Bucklin, University of South Dakota

8. RACISM, THE BLACK SOLDIER, AND ACTIVISM
Chair: Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
“The Impact of Army Service on the Civil Rights’ Movement: The Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana” - Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
“Slavery’s Front Lines: The Suppression of an 1816 Slave Revolt from both Northern and Southern Perspectives” - Oscar Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Commentator: James Westheider, Clermont College

17 WILSONIAN IDEALS
Chair and Commentator: Robert Zeidel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
“Woodrow Wilson’s Nightmare: The Second Iraq War and the Crisis of Collective Security” - Albert Berger, University of North Dakota
“‘Onward Wilsonian Soldiers!’: Wilsonianism and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” - Connie K. Harris, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

21 SOLDIERING IN EARLY AMERICA
Chair and Comment: Donald Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
“‘Extreme Campaigning: The British Army’s Response to Climate and Environment in the American Revolution” - Tabitha J. Marshall, McMaster University
“Henry Knox: America’s Martial Founding Father” - James McIntyre, Morraine Valley Community College

INDIAN EXPERIENCE AND POLICY
Chair: Joseph Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
“A Reappraisal of Grant's Indian ‘Peace Policy’” - Henry Fritz, St. Olaf College, emeritus
“‘Go Now—You Are Forgiven’: General Oliver O. Howard’s Idea of Indian Policy and Its Effects upon the Nez Percés War of 1877” - Catherine R. Franklin, University of Oklahoma
Commentator: Albert Berger, University of North Dakota

33 BRITISH MILITARY PRACTICE
Chair and Commentator: Jerry Sweeney, South Dakota State University
“Major A. R. Chater, DSO, RMLI, and the Experience of War: From Boy Lieutenant to Decorated Combat Veteran, 1914–1918” - Donald Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
“British Implementation of the Martial Race Theory in the Indian Army: A Military Perspective, 1857–1893” - C. E. Wood, Glenville State College