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Schedule of Sessions Society for Military History Annual Meeting Frederick, Maryland, 19-22 April 2007 For Questions, Contact: Program Committee Chairman, Conrad Crane at [email protected]. Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:00 p.m. Society for Military History Council Meeting Thursday, April 19, 2007 7:00 p.m. Kick-Off Teaching Military History: Transferring the Wisdom of the Past to the Students of Event Today Chair: Spencer C. Tucker, Virginia Military Institute (retired) Lee Eysturlid, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Malcolm Muir, Jr., Virginia Military Institute Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University James H. Willbanks, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Comment: Audience Friday, April 20, 2007 7:30 am Journal of Military History Editorial Board Breakfast Friday, April 20, 2007 8:30 am.-10:00 a.m. A-1 Gettysburg’s Battle and Battlefield History: New Research on the Fight and Preserving its Memory Chair: Wayne E. Motts, Adams County (PA) Historical Society “’I am Still in the Land of the Living’: Letters from the Gettysburg Battlefield” Eric Campbell, Gettysburg National Military Park “The Remaking of the Gettysburg Battlefield Five Times Over!” Ben Dixon, State University of New York at Oneonta “’Far Above Our Poor Power to Add or Detract’: Administration of the Gettysburg Battlefield by the National Park Service, 1933-1938” Jennifer Murray, Auburn University Comment: Scott Hartwig, Gettysburg National Military Park A-2 Joint Operational History Chair: Graham Cosmas, Joint History Office “Planning for the U.S. Intervention in Haiti” Ronald Cole, Joint History Office 1 “A Field Historian in the SOF Olympics: Task Force K-Bar and Documenting Joint Combat Operations in Afghanistan, 2001-2002” David Crist, Joint History Office “Planning for Post-War Reconstruction of Kuwait” Wayne Dzwonchyk, Joint History Office “Historical Coverage of Joint Operations” Hans Pawlisch, Joint History Office Comment: Audience A-3 German Armies of 1813-1814 Chair: John H. Gill, National Defense University “’I am Making Unheard of Efforts to be able, in a few months, to present Your Majesty with a new army…’: The Recreation of the Westphalian Army in 1813” Michael Pavković, U.S. Naval War College “Freiheitkrieg and Freiwillige: Volunteer Battalions in the German Armies, 1813- 1815” Rick Schneid, High Point University “The Role of Allied Streifkorps during the Invasion of France in 1814” Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport Comment: John H. Gill, National Defense University A-4 The American Social Sciences in World War I Chair: Barton Hacker, National Museum of American History “Progressive Social Sciences in the Great War” Margaret Vining, National Museum of American History “Below the Bar: The U.S. Army and Sub-Standard Manpower in World War I” Sanders Marble, U.S. Army Office of Medical History “Recipe for Citizenship: Gender, Professionalization and Power During World War I” Kate Scott, College of William and Mary Comment: Jennifer Keene, Chapman University A-5 World War II: The ‘Good War’ through a Non-Traditional Lens Chair: Theodore F. Cook, William Patterson University of New Jersey “Learning the ‘Devil’s Language’: A Comparative Analysis of Allied and Japanese Language Training Programs” Allison Gilmore, Ohio State University-Lima “The Good Book and the Good War: American Christianity in World War II” Nicholas A. Krehbiel, Kansas State University 2 “Boredom Accentuated By Routine: Scholarly Neglect and World War II Naval Medicine” William McEvoy, Kansas State University Comment: Gregory J.W. Urwin, Temple University A-6 Africa and Late Victorian Small Wars, 1870-1902 Chair: Stephen Miller, University of Maine “British Military Perspectives on Africa in the Late Nineteenth Century” Edward M. Spiers, University of Leeds “Manipulating the ‘modern curse of armies’: Wolseley, the Press and the Ashanti War, 1873-1874” Ian F.W. Beckett, University of Northhampton “Confronted with the facts: Why the Boer Delegates at Vereeining accepted a Humiliating Peace to end the South African War, 31 May 1902” Fransjohan Pretorious, University of Pretoria Comment: Stephen Miller, University of Maine Break – 10:00-10:15 Panel Friday, April 20, 2007 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. B-1 Aussies, Advisors and the NVA: 'Others' Intersect with the American Experience at the Crossroads of the Vietnam War Chair: Kenton J. Clymer, Northern Illinois University “From Saigon to Baghdad: Vietnam and the Transformation of Australian Defense Policy” Jeffrey Grey, University College, Australia “Strangers Meeting at the Crossroads of War: The U.S./Australian Combat Advisory effort in Vietnam” Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi “The Other Side of the Hill: What We Knew – and Didn’t Know – About the North Vietnamese at the Battle of Khe Sanh” John Prados, National Security Archive Comment: Kenton J. Clymer, Northern Illinois University B-2 Soldiers, Politicians & Civilians at the Crossroads: National Socialist Germany & Europe, 1933-1945 Chair: Dan Mortensen, Airpower Research Institute “The Sword and the Swastika; The German Military an Nazi Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union” Geoffrey Megargee, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies 3 “The Pen and the Sword: The Development of Austrian Military Policy and its Intersection with Austrian Diplomacy, 1934-1938” Alex Lassner, Air War College “Special ‘Sonderbehandlung’: The Impact of Wehrmacht Nihilistic Violence During the Final Days of National Socialism, April-May 1945” Russell Hart, Hawai’i Pacific University Comment: Dan Mortensen, Airpower Research Institute B-3 19th Century Military Education Chair: Ethan Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College “Military Knowledge and Professionalism at West Point before the Civil War” Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, U.S. Naval Academy “A ‘Most Unworthy Fellow’: Cadet William H. Carter’s Witness to racial Integration at old West Point” Ronald Machoian, U.S. Air Force “Citizens, Not Soldiers: Military Service and Antebellum Military Schools” Bradford Wineman, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Comment: Samuel J. Watson, U.S. Military Academy B-4 On the Threshold of Modern Technology: Anti-Submarine Warfare at the End of WWII Chair: Michael Whitby, Directorate of History and Heritage, National Defence Headquarters, Canada “Fido: A Case Study of Allied Cooperation in World War II” Kathleen Broome Williams, Cogswell Polytechnial College “Smart Mining without Smart Mines – Second World War British Operations in the Baltic” W.J.R. Gardner, Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom “’One of your Bedtime Stories’: The Destruction of U-247, September 1944” Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones, Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom Comment: Michael Whitby, Directorate of History and Heritage, National Defence Headquarters, Canada B-5 Occupation and Incursion: New Perspectives on the Union Army and the Southern Home Front Chair: George Rable, University of Alabama “Libby Prison: A Study of Power and Resistance on the Southern Home Front 1863-1864” Angela Zombek, University of Florida 4 “’I am not so Patriotic as I Was Once’: The Effects of Military Occupation on Occupying Union Soldiers” Judkin Browning, Appalachian State University “Creating Military Policy at the Local Level: Black Union Soldiers and Counter- Guerrilla Warfare on the North Carolina Coast” Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia Comment: Paul C. Anderson, Clemson University B-6 Media in War Chair: William Allison, Weber State University “The War that Saved Hollywood” Candice Shy Hooper, Independent Scholar “A Lesson Mis-Learned: The U.S. Military Response to Embedded Journalists and the Falklands War of 1982” Jeremy Spahr, University of Maryland, Baltimore County “When Civilian News Reporters, Correspondents, and Journalists Lined up to Enlist” Rob Taglianetti, U.S. Marine Corps Historical Division Comment: William M. Hammond, U.S. Army Center of Military History Lunch -- 12:00-1:30 Friday, April 20, 2007 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Society for Military History Awards Luncheon Panel Friday, April 20, 2007 1:45p.m. -- 3:15 p.m. C-1 PRESIDENTIAL PANEL -- Crossroads of War: At the Intersection of Military, Diplomatic and Environmental Histories Co-Sponsored by the American Society of Environmental History Chair: Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University “Yellow Jack and the British Army: Cartagena 1741 and Havana 1762” John McNeill, Georgetown University “Gallipoli: The Environmental Face of Battle” William Storey, Millsaps College “Give me Blubber or Give Me Bullets: The U.S. Military Restores Japanese Whaling, 1945-1951” Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire Comment: Lisa M. Brady, Boise State University C-2 Unconventional Warfare in the Civil War Chair: David Fitzpatrick, Washtenaw Community College “Military Counter-Terrorism Operations in the Reconstruction South” Stephen 5 Budiansky, Independent Scholar “Raid, Murder, and Retribution: The 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and the Destruction of the Weldon Rail Road, December 1864” George E. Deutsch, Independent Scholar “Burning Randolph: The Guerrilla Problem and the Union Decision to Wage War Against Civilians” John C. Mountcastle, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Comment: Robert J. Dalessandro, Army Heritage and Education Center C-3 Economics in War in the 18th Century Chair: Wayne Lee, University of North Carolina “The Crucible of the American Revolutionary War: The Military Conversion of the New England Cod Fishing Industry” Christopher P. Magra, California State University at Northridge