SMH SPONSORED SESSIONS:

 

1. 1 October, Wednesday evening:     Panel on Operation Iraqi Freedom

            Donald Bittner, Selika Ducksworth-Lawton, Hal Friedman, Keith Bjerke (NDSU, Chair)

 

6.  2 Oct Thursday, 9 AM Ñ  The Great War      

Chair and Comment: Donald Bittner, (US Marine Corps Command and Staff College), bittnerdf@starpower.net

 

Stan Parsons (University of MissouriÐKansas City) Parsonss@umkc.edu, ÒCaptain TrumanÕs War: the Meuse ArgonneÓ

 

James Westheider (University of CincinnatiÐClermont) jameswestheider@aol.com, ÒThe ÔOtherÕ Camp Des Moines: Training African American Medical Personnel In World War One.Ó

 

25. 2 Oct Thursday, 2:30 PM Ñ The United States Marine Corps and Navy and the Pacific War: Prewar Preparations and Postwar Conceptions, 1933-1947

Chair: Selika Ducksworth-Lawton (UW Eau Claire) duckswsm@uwec.edu

 

David J. Ulbrich (Temple University) ulbirchdj@aol.com, ÒFacing the Rising Sun in the Pacific: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy, 1933-1941.Ó

 

Hal Friedman, (Henry Ford Community College) friedman@hfcc.edu , ÒSea-Air Power in paradise: The Role of the Pacific Basic in the United States NavyÕs Postwar Conception of American Naval Power, 1945-1947,Ó

 

Commentator: Katherine K. Reist, (University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown), kreist@pitt.edu

 

33. 3 Oct Friday, 9 AM Ñ Agents of Empire    Ñ

Chair and Comment: Robert Berlin, USArmy Command and Staff College, ROBERT.BERLIN@LEAVENWORTH.ARMY.MIL

 

Donald Bittner (US Marine Corps Command and Staff College) bittnerdf@starpower.net

, ÒLT. Colonel C. F. JERRAM, CMG, DSO, Royal Marines: Representative of the Best of the British Military Heritage, 1901-1945Ó

 

Matthew A. Crump, LT USN (Texas Christian) crumpma@cox.net , ÒAir Control: Air Power as Imperial Enabler.Ó

 

David Grabitske (Minnesota Historical Society) david.grabitske@mnhs.org , "Fur Trade & Settler's Rights: The Upper Mississippi Campaign of 1814 and the Development of Minnesota."

 

35, 3 Oct Friday, 11 AM Ñ Memorials and Explorations

Chair and Commentator: Tom Isern, North Dakota State, isern@plainsfolk.com

 

Bruce Tyler, ÒThe Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Movement in Louisville, Kentucky,Ó

585 Hawthorne Ave., Louisville, Ky 40065

 

M. John Lubetkin Lubetkin174@hotmail.com, ÒThe 1873 Yellowstone Surveying Expedition: Thomas L. Rosser, David S. Stanley, and George A. CusterÓ

1748 Great falls St., McLean, VA 22101-5458

 

55, 4 Oct Saturday, 9 AM Ñ Writing Home

Chair and Commentator: James Westheider (University of Cincinnati-Clermont), jameswestheider@aol.com

 

Richard Lofthus (Mount Marty College) rlofthus@mtmc.edu, ÒLetters Home from the Western Front: The World War I Experiences of Private John WarnsÓ

 

Joe Fitzharris (University of St. Thomas) jcfitzharris@stthomas.edu, ÒPortraying the South and Southerners: Letters to the Minnesota Home Front in the Civil WarÓ

 

57, 4 Oct Saturday, 11 AM Ñ Pre-modern Tactics and Command: Ð Put on either Thursday or Saturday

Chair and Comment: Margaret Sankey (Minnesota State University Moorhead) sankeym@mnstate.edu

 

James McIntyre (Moraine Valley), ÒTactics of the Continental Army, 1775-1778Ó

McIntyreJ@morainevalley.edu

 

Brian Melton (Texas Christian University) bandkmelton@earthlink.net, ÒAssessing a Commander: Henry Slocum, of XII CorpsÓ

Dept of History TCU Box 297260, Fort Worth, TX 76132

 

Alan Lamm (Mount Olive) alamm@moc.edu, "Perfect in Combat: General John A. Logan"