Schedule and Program Information
77th Annual Meeting of the Society of Military History
20 – 23 May 2010
Marshall Hall, Center for Leadership and Ethics, Virginia Military Institute
updated 7 May
Overview of Meeting Schedule(pdf format)
Thursday, May 20
12:00 pm 7:00 pm Registration (Marshall Hall, Center for Leadership & Ethics (CLE))
12:00 pm 4:00 pm SMH Executive Board Meeting - Col Alto Hampton Inn
12:00 pm 4:00 pm Exhibitor set up, Marshall Hall, CLE
5:30pm 8:00 pm Welcoming Barbeque Dinner – Tent, VMI Parade Ground
Friday, May 21
7:30 am 8:30 am JMH Editorial Board Breakfast
8:00 am 5:00 pm Registration – Marshall Hall, CLE
8:00 am 6:00 pm Visit Exhibits – Marshall Hall, CLE
8:30 am 9:45 am Session 1
9:45 am 10:00 am Break
10:15 am 11:30 am Session 2
11:45am 1:00 pm Awards Luncheon - Marshall Hall, CLE
1:30 pm 5:30 pm Tour: D-Day Memorial, Bedford, Virginia
1:30 pm 3:00 pm Session 3
3:00 pm 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm 4:45 pm Session 4
5:30 pm 6:30 pm Graduate Student Reception – George C. Marshall Museum Lobby
Evening Dinner on-your-own
Saturday, May 22
8:00 am 5:00 pm Registration - Marshall Hall, CLE
8:00 am 5:00 pm Visit Exhibits – Marshall Hall, CLE
8:30 am 9:45 am Session 5
9:45 am 10:15 am Break
10:15 am 11:30 am Session 6
11:30 am 1:00 pm Lunch on own
12:00 pm 5:00 pm Staff Ride: New Market Battlefield
1:30 pm 3:00 pm Session 7
3:00 pm 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm 4:45 pm Session 8
6:00 pm 7:00 pm Reception – Marshall Hall, CLE
7:15 pm 10:00 pm Banquet – Marshall Hall, CLE
Sunday, May 23
7:30 am 8:30 am SMH Business Meeting - GCMF, Pogue Auditorium
8:00 am 12:00 pm Registration – Marshall Hall, CLE
8:00 am 12:00 pm Visit Exhibits - Marshall Hall, CLE
8:30am 10:00 am Session 9
10:00 am 10:30 am Break
10:30 am 11:45 am Session 10
12:00 pm 2:00 pm Exhibitor take down
2010 SMH Panels and Sessions
updated 26 March
(pdf version) (Matrix of panel schedule)
Session One: Friday, 0830-0945
Shenandoah: “Causes Forgotten: Military Operations in the Pacific All But Lost to History”
Chair: Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford Community College
Commentator: Russell Hart, Hawaii Pacific University
Papers:
“The Paulet Affair of 1843: A Turning Point in the Use of Coercive Force in Anglo-Hawaiian Relations during the Years 1825-1854?” Brendan Bliss, Hawaii Pacific University
“Like a Good Neighbor: The U.S. Navy’s Diplomatic Mission in South America in the 1930s” Joel Christiansen, West Virginia University
“A Quiet Day in Luganville: The Imprint of the U.S. Military Occupation on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, in WWII” Justin Vance, Hawaii Pacific University
New Market: “From Creation to Professionalization: Studies in US Army Logistics, 1783-1865”
Chair: Steven J. Rauch, U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence
Commentator: COL Wade Sokolosky, 23rd Quartermaster Brigade
Papers:
“Logistics Driving Operations: The Influence of Logistics on McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign (1862) and Grant’s Overland Campaign (1864)” Curtis S. King, U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute
“’The Great Question of the Campaign Was One of Supplies’: Logistics and Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign” J. Britt McCarley, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
“’Fatal Mismanagements and Neglects’: Assessing the Military and Economic Impact of Contracting Supply during the War for the Old Northwest” James K. Perrin, Jr., Ohio State University
Gillis Theater (500): “National Endowment for the Humanities Information Session and Grants Workshop” Presidential Panel Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Panelists: Douglas M. Arnold, National Endowment for the Humanities and Malcolm “Kip” Muir, Virginia Military Institute
Dr. Arnold will describe current grant opportunities at the National Endowment for the Humanities and give examples of recent grant awards in military history. He will also discuss special NEH programs (including the new Bridging Cultures initiative), describe the Endowment's evaluation process, and offer grant-writing tips. Dr. Muir will discuss a recent NEH Challenge Grant at Virginia Military Institute for a center for military history and strategic analysis. A question-and-answer period will follow.
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Paras, Pariahs, Precision, and Revision: Airpower Causes Won Not Lost”
Chair: Robert H. Berlin, Society for Military History
Commentator: Sebastian Cox, Air Historical Branch (RAF), UK Ministry of Defence
Papers:
“Bombers, ‘Butchers’, and Britain’s Bête Noire: Reappraising RAF Bomber Command’s Role in WWII” Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
“Iron Men, Silver Wings: Rethinking Vertical Envelopment in World War II” Donald A. MacCuish, U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College
”Whirlwind, Whiz Kids, Waziristan, and the Realization of the Airpower Cause” John G. Terino , U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Marshall Library (40): “Losses, Lessons, Lumières: Military Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century France”
Chair: Jacqueline Whitt, U.S. Military Academy
Commentator: Jacqueline Whitt, U.S. Military Academy
Papers:
“Unwitting Sacrifice: The Noble Officer Corps and the Rise of the French Soldier, 1760-1789” Julia Osman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Embracing the Epicene: Feminist Military Reform in the Enlightenment French Army” Christy Pichichero, Stanford University
“From a Lost War to a New Paradise: America’s Indians and Tahitians through the Eyes of Bougainville” Christian A. Crouch, Bard College
Moody Activities Room (100): “Forgotten Fronts of the First World War”
Chair: Mark E. Grotelueschen, U.S. Air Force Academy
Commentator: Eric W. Osborne, Virginia Military Institute
Papers:
“’Goodbyeeeee and Fuck You!’ Masculinity, Identity, and Swearing among Canada’s Great War Soldiers” Tim Cook, Canadian War Museum
“Home Front Natal: A South African Province during the Great War” Paul S. Thompson, University of KwaZulu-Natal
“Sweetness and War: An Introductory Examination of the Role of Sugar during the First World War” Robert Shafer, Pennsylvania State University
Moody Boardroom (25): “Preparing to Win: Perspectives on the U.S. Army in the Interwar Period”
Chair: Stephen A. Bourque, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
Commentator: Joseph C. Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
Papers:
“Riflemen and Guardsmen: The NRA, the NGA, and the Transformation of the Army” Barry M. Stentiford, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
“Mobile Firepower: U.S. Army Tanks and Mechanization in the Interwar Period” Dan C. Fullerton, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
“Battlefield Frameworks, Operational Art, and Reality, 1918-1945” Peter J. Schifferle, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
Session Two: Friday, 1015-1130
Shenandoah (50): “The Tenuous Cords of Imperial Unity: Britain and the Commonwealth during the Second World War and After”
Chair: David J. Bercuson, University of Calgary
Commentator: David J. Bercuson, University of Calgary
Papers:
“Tradition and Pragmatism: Anglo-Canadian Defense Relations after the Second World War” Peter Archambault, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Operational Research and Analysis
“Australia in Transition: Anglo-Australian Relations, 1939-1945” Jeffrey Grey, Australian Defence Force Academy
“Preparing to Fight the Bear: The Canadian Army at the Nexus of the North Atlantic Triangle” Alexander W. G. Herd, University of Calgary
Gillis Theater (500): “Counterinsurgency Across History” (A Roundtable Presentation)
Chair: H. R. McMaster, U.S. Army Capabilities Integration Center, Training and Doctrine Command
Panelists: Andrew J. Birtle, U.S. Army Center for Military History
Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
Mark Moyar, U.S. Marine Corps University
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Causes Won and Lost: Women’s Wartime and Peacetime Contributions and Women’s Rights” Presidential Panel Sponsored by the Minerva Center
Chair: Kara Dixon Vuic, Bridgewater College
Commentator: D’Ann Campbell, Montana State University, Billings
Papers:
“Japanese Women in a ‘Lost War’: Loyalty and Betrayal in a State of War” Haruko Taya Cook & Theodore F. Cook, William Paterson University
“Women at War: Organizing Resistance in France during WWII” Rita Kramer, Independent Scholar
“An Incremental Revolution: American Women and War, 1980 to 2010” Robert Lance Janda, Cameron University
Marshall Library (40): “The U.S. Army and Joint Command in the War against Japan”
Chair: Edward M. Coffman, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Emeritus)
Commentator: Edward Drea, Independent Scholar
Papers:
“The Interwar Army and the Rising Sun” Harold R. Winton, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
“Instrument of Revenge: The 1st Cavalry Division in the Pacific War against Japan” Peter Mansoor, Ohio State University
“MacArthur’s Lieutenants and the Schoolhouse of War” Kevin C. Holzimmer, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
Moody Activities Room (100): “Warfare and Culture (continued): Operational Connections”
Chair: Wayne E. Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Commentator: Stephen Morillo, Wabash College
Papers:
“Of Bureaucrats & Bandits: Anti-Rebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty” Kenneth M. Swope, Ball State University
“Forbearance in Battle: Class, Culture, and Combat in Early Modern Europe” John A. Lynn, Northwestern University
“Sherman’s Armies in 1864: A Study in Organizational Culture” Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University
Moody Board Room (25): “The Public Image of the American Sea Services in the Early Twentieth Century”
Chair: Aaron B. O’Connell, U.S. Naval Academy
Commentator: Charles P. Niemeyer, USMC History
Papers:
“Esprit de Marine Corps: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps through Public Relations, 1905-1918” Colin M. Colbourn, University of Southern Mississippi
“’Always Fightin’ Men’: Identity and the Marine Corps during the Veracruz Incident” Heather Pace Marshall, Duke University
“Finest Examples of American Manhood: The Ideal Sailor and the Construction of Masculinity in the Interwar Navy” Ryan D. Wadle, Texas A&M University
Session Three: Friday, 1330-1500
Shenandoah (50): “New Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Naval History”
Chair: Sarandis “Randy” Papadopoulous, Naval History and Heritage Command
Commentator: Jennifer Lyn Speelman, The Citadel
Papers:
“Charting Sea Space: Hydrography and the U.S. Navy in the Nineteenth Century” Jason W. Smith, Temple University
“The President-Little Belt Affair: A Study in Causation” Joshua Wolf, Temple University
“The Politics of American and British Naval Strategy in the War of 1812” Stephen Budiansky, Independent Scholar
Gillis Theater (500): “What is Victory?”
Chair: Robert M. Citino, University of North Texas
Commentator: J. Boone Bartholomees, Jr., U.S. Army War College
Papers:
“A Strategy of Tactics: What Population-centric Counterinsurgency Has Done to the American Army” Gian P. Gentile, U.S. Military Academy
“In Praise of Exhaustion: Breaking Will with a Grand Strategy of Contextual Change” Gail E. S. Yoshitani, U.S. Military Academy
“Reframing the Historical Problematic of War, Insurgency, and Victory” Jonathan E. Gumz, U.S. Military Academy
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Military Frontiers in American History”
Chair: Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University
Commentator: Philip D. Dillard, James Madison University
Papers:
“One Cause Won, Two Causes Lost, a Fourth Cause Continued, a Fifth Bribed Away, and a Sixth Defined Out of Existence: Conflicts of the Rio Grande Valley, 1836-1876” Irving W. Levinson, University of Texas, Pan-American
“’His Majesty’s Faithful Indian Allies’: Kennedy’s Corps and the Anglo-Provincial Victory over the Cherokees, 1761” Daniel J. Tortora, Duke University
“Scapegoat? Colonel Edwin V. Sumner and the Topeka Dispersal of 1856” Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico
Marshall Library (40): “Causes and Effects; Representing Soldiering in the Era of the All-Volunteer Military”
Chair: Janet G. Valentine, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Commentator: Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University
Papers:
“Army Games: America’s Virtual Soldiers” Beth Bailey, Temple University
“Representing American Soldiers in the Nearly Invisible Women in Military Service for America Memorial” Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan
“’No One Put a Gun to Their Head and Forced Them to Come Here’: Representing the All-Volunteer Army in Narratives on the ‘War on Terror’” David Kieran, Washington University
Moody Activities Room (100): “Airpower Causes in the Shadow of the Cold War”
Chair: Douglas Streusand, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Commentator: Douglas Streusand, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Papers:
“Air Power’s Evangelists: The Men and Women Who Sold Airpower through Popular Culture, 1945-1963” Steven C. Call, Broome Community College
“General Otto Weyland and the Origins of an Expeditionary Air Force: USAF Tactical Air Command and Power Projection, 1956-1960“ Paul D. Gelpi, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
“General Paul Adams and Joint Strike Command: A Failed Opportunity for Enhanced Close Air Support” Michael Perry May, U.S. Air Force Air University
Moody Board Room (25): “Some Battles Won and Lost in Military Medicine”
Chair: Justin Woodson, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Commentator: Justin Woodson, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Papers:
“Medical and Surgical Care in the Russo-Japanese War” Justin Barr, Yale University
“Some Problems in Saving Lives: Why and How Forward Surgery Was Brought to Battlefields” William Sanders Marble, U.S. Army Office of Medical History
“A Battle Won and Lost: Allied Medical Support during Operation Market-Garden” Stephen C. Craig, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Session Four: Friday, 1515-1645
Shenandoah (50): “Native American Warfare in 17th Century New England: Reactions and Adjustments to European Contact and Colonization”
Chair: John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Ohio State University
Commentator: Joseph Fischer, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Papers:
“The Evolution of Native Warfare in Southern New England: 1200-1637” Kevin A. McBride, University of Connecticut
“Native Perspectives on Violence in War and the Consequences of the Mystic Massacre” Matthew S. Muehlbauer, U.S. Military Academy
“Maintaining the Initiative: The Connecticut Colony-Mohegan-Pequot Alliance on the Offensive” Jason W. Warren, U.S. Military Academy
New Market (50): “The Southern Way of War: The Lost Cause and the Southern Military Tradition”
Chair: Richard B. McCaslin, University of North Texas
Commentator: Jennifer D. Keene, Chapman University
Papers:
“The Texas Brigade and the Lost Cause” Susannah J. Ural, University of Southern Mississippi
“Picking Up the White Man’s Burden: African Americans and the Philippine War, 1899-1902” David J. Silbey, Alvernia University,
“Southern Women and the Vietnam War” Heather M. Stur, University of Southern Mississippi
Gillis Theater (500): “Researching and Writing about the Vietnam War” (A Roundtable Discussion)
Chair: Edward J. Marolda, Naval History and Heritage Command (ret.)
Panelists: John M. Carland, State Department History Office
John Darrell Sherwood, Naval History and Heritage Command
Andrew A. Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
James H. Wilbanks, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Causes Lost and Won: France, Austria, and Piedmont: War Planning for Campaigning in Italy”
Chair: John A. Lynn, Northwestern University
Commentator: Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
Papers:
“Looking for the Right Way: Habsburg Planning for War in Italy, 1797 to 1809” Lee W. Eysturlid, Illinois School of Math and Science
“A Well-Coordinated Affair: Franco-Piedmontese War Planning and the Second War of Italian Unification” Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University
“Austrian and Italian War Planning in 1866” Geoffrey D. W. Wawro, University of North Texas
Marshall Library (40): SMH Professional Development Seminar: The Academic Hiring Process from an Administrator’s Perspective (A Discussion for Graduate Students and Others in the Job Market)
Participants:
Carol Reardon, Director of Graduate Studies, Pennsylvania State University
William Allison, Chair, Department of History, Georgia Southern University
Kurt Hackemer, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of South Dakota
Frank Wetta, Department of History, Kean University, and immediate past Vice President of Academic Affairs, Ocean County College
Moody Activities Room (100): “Strategic Visions in the Age of Fighting Sail, Fulfilled and Unfulfilled”
Chair: Eugenia C. Kiesling, U.S. Military Academy
Commentator: Peter D. Haynes, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Papers:
“The Tale of the Milk Pot: Vice Admiral Comte d’Estaing’s Strategic Vision for the War of 1778 in America” Michael J. Crawford, Naval History and Heritage Command
“Iron, Fire, and Patriotism: Triumphs and Failures of French Naval Strategy in 1794” Kenneth G. Johnson, U.S. Military Academy
“A Strategic Vision in Evolution: Admiral Warren and British Strategic Options against the United States, 1812-13” Kevin D. McCranie, U.S. Naval War College
Moody Board Room (25): “The Undersea Cold War”
Chair: Kathleen Broome Williams, Cogswell Polytechnical College
Commentator: Alex Roland, Duke University
Papers:
“From the Depths: British Cold War Submarine Operations” W. J. R. “Jock” Gardner, Naval Historical Branch (UK)
“A Blockade by Any Other Name: Adapting to the Cold War” Gary E. Weir, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
“Doin’ the Biz; Anti-SSBN Patrols by Canadian Submarines, 1983-87” Michael Whitby, Canadian Department of National Defence
Session Five: Saturday, 0830-0945
Shenandoah (50): “Thought and Practice in Chinese Warfare”
Presidential Panel Sponsored by the Chinese Military History Society
Chair: David A. Graff, Kansas State University
Commentator: David A. Graff, Kansas State University
Papers:
“The Seven Military Classics and an 11th-century Military Historian” Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University
“Guerrilla vs. Conventional Warfare: Myth-making and Myth-busting in Contemporary Chinese Military Thought” Morgan Deane, Trine University
“Military Theory and Practice in the Sino-Japanese Korean War (1592-1598): The Continuing Relevance of The Seven Military Classics during the ‘Gunpowder Revolution’” Christopher R. Lew, U.S. Department of Defense
New Market (50): “The U.S. Cavalry in the Civil War Era”
Chair: John W. Mountcastle, University of Richmond
Commentator: Samuel J. Watson, U.S. Military Academy
Papers:
“The Organization and Employment of Cavalry in the East—Another Look” Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
“Hindquarters for Headquarters? Class Rank at West Point and Appointments to the Cavalry Branch, 1832-1861” Richard N. Grippaldi, Temple University
“A Most Disagreeable Mission: The 1st Cavalry and Bleeding Kansas” Tony R. Mullis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Gillis Theater (500): “On War’s Precipice: The U.S. Army and the Cold War from 1946 to 1962” (A Roundtable Discussion)
Chair: Brian M. Linn, Texas A&M University
Panelists: Michael J. Doidge, University of Southern Mississippi
William M. Donnelly, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Donald A. Carter, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Ingo Trauschweizer, Ohio University
Paul C. Jussel, U.S. Army War College
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Settling Losses”
Chair: L. Michael Allsep, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Commentator: David J. Ulbrich, U.S. Army Engineer School
Papers:
“A Cause Lost and Won: Renegotiating Victory in the Memory of the Vietnam War” Meredith H. Lair, George Mason University
“The Driftwood of War: Managing Refugees in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949” Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University
“Acts of Charity: War Department Benefits for Widows, Orphans, and Invalids, 1784-1800” Christopher H. Hamner, George Mason University
Marshall Library (40): “U.S. Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century”
Chair: Van Mobley, Concordia University, Wisconsin
Commentator: Michael Bonura, U.S. Army
Papers:
“The Airman and the State: An F-22 Pilot’s Perspective on Civil-Military Affairs” Alexus Grynkewich, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
“Joint Vision 2010: Framing Future Forces or Fruitless Futurology? Christopher E. Sund, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Moody Activities Room (100): “Religion in the American Military”
Chair: Bradley Carter, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Commentator: Nancy Gentile Ford, Bloomsburg University
Papers:
“Atheists in Foxholes? The Religious Life of the American GI” G. Kurt Piehler, University of Tennessee
“Bullets Addressed ‘To Whom It May Concern’: American Interpretations of Fate, Providence, and Divine Intervention in Combat” Jacqueline Whitt, U.S. Military Academy
“’The Lord Has Called Us to a Hard Task’: Chaplain Robert Boston Dokes, Black Soldiers, and the Practice of Transgressive Citizenship in World War II” George White, Jr., York College, CUNY
Moody Boardroom (25): “Rising Stars: The Leadership Origins of Three American Generals”
Chair: LTG Steven Boutelle, U.S. Army (ret.)
Commentator: David Murphy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Papers:
“Zachary Taylor and the Crucible of Experience: Democracy, Professionalism, and Leadership in the Antebellum U.S. Army” Gregory Hospodor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
“Learning Leadership: Training, Experience, and the Making of Ulysses S. Grant” Harry S. Laver, Southeastern Louisiana University
“From Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War: The Education of General Colin Powell” Jeffrey J. Matthews, University of Puget Sound
Session Six: Saturday, 1015-1130
Shenandoah (50): “Achieving the Complex and the Creative: The Continental Army and Supporting Operations, 1778-1779”
Chair: John R. Maass, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Commentator: Glenn F. Williams, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Papers:
“Mud Forts and River Pirates: Land Privateers in the American Revolution, 1778” Charles P. Niemeyer, USMC History
“To ‘Prevent the Enemy from Receiving any Benefit [and] to Supply the Present Emergencies of the American Army’: Foraging and Combat Operations at Valley Forge, February-March 1778” Ricardo A. Herrera, U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute
“The Road Not Taken: The Coos Country Expedition, 1779” Holly A. Mayer, Duquesne University
New Market (50): “Civil War in Greece and Spain”
Chair: R. Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute
Commentator: Count Niccolo Capponi, Capponi Archive
Papers:
“The Military Lessons of the Spanish Civil War” Michael P. Marino, The College of New Jersey
“Success and Failure of Soviet Naval Personnel Serving the Spanish Republican Fleet in War, 1936-1939” Willard C. Frank, Jr., Old Dominion University (Emeritus)
“The Greek Civil War and the Principles of Operations Other than War” Kevin J. Dougherty, University of Southern Mississippi
Gillis Theater (500): “Ancient Generalship”
Chair: Michael F. Pavkovic, U.S. Naval War College
Commentator: Michael F. Pavkovic, U.S. Naval War College
Papers:
“Greek Generalship: Where Did Military Hierarchy Come From?” Jon E. Lendon, University of Virginia
“Ancient Generals and Their Orders” Fred S. Naiden, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A War Without Battles: Unconventional Warfare in Second Century BC Egypt” Paul Johstono, Duke University
“Who’s the Best? Ancient Criteria for Evaluation of Roman Generalship” Everett L. Wheeler, Duke University
Pogue Auditorium (100): “The Cause Won: New Perspectives on the United States’ Cause in the Civil War Era”
Presidential Panel Sponsored by the Society of Civil War Historians
Chair: Carol Reardon, Pennsylvania State University
Commentator: Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Papers:
“Seeking the Meaning of Union Victory: Participants, Historians, and ‘The Grand Review’” Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia
“Clasping Hands over the Bloody Chasm: Civil War Veterans’ Reunions and the Path to Reconciliation” Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University
“’Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable’: Remembering the Won Cause” Barbara A. Gannon, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Marshall Library (40): “Unintended Consequences: The Effects of Air Operations in France, 1944”
Chair: Thomas A. Bruscino, Jr., U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
Commentator: Peter S. Kindsvatter, U.S. Army Ordnance Center & Schools
Papers:
“La Semaine Rouge: Rouen under Allied Bombs” Stephen A. Bourque, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
“Losing the Brains of the Army: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair” Mark T. Calhoun, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
“Adapting Precision Airpower: The Transportation Plan in WWII” G. Scott Gorman, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies
Moody Activities Room (100): “Informal Responsibilities: Militaries and Roles Short of War in Early America”
Chair: David J. Silbey, Alvernia University
Commentator: John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Papers:
“’So Many Cords of Affection’: The Antebellum Military and the Construction of American National Identity” William Adler, CUNY
“Brothers in Arms: French and Quapaw Indians in Colonial Arkansas” Sonia Toudji, University of Arkansas
“’Reduced to Order’: State Violence and the Contest over Social Discipline in the Early Republic” Chris Bray, UCLA
Moody Board Room (25): “The Navy as an Instrument of Foreign Relations”
Chair: James C. Bradford, Texas A&M University
Commentator: C. Thomas Long, George Washington University
Papers:
“’By Putting Ourselves in a Position to Punish Them’: The United States’ Decision to Fight the Barbary Wars” Thomas Sheppard, Florida State University
“The Providence of Most Men … and the Longest Cannon” John A. Tures, LaGrange College
“Churchill, New Zealand, and the Royal Navy: Imperial Relations and Naval Defense in the Pacific, 1911-1914” John C. Mitcham, University of Alabama
Session Seven: Saturday, 1330-1500
New Market (50): “The Anglo-American Military Experience in the 18th Century”
Chair: Mark Danley, University of Memphis
Commentator: Dennis M. Conrad, Naval History & Heritage Command
Papers:
“’The Soul of All Armies’: Discipline, Control, or the Lack Thereof, in the mid-18th-century British Army” Scott N. Hendrix, Cuyahoga Community College
“’To Recover the Sinking Hopes of the People’: North Carolina and Public Spirit in the American Revolution” John R. Maass, U.S. Army Center of Military History
“’In Free Liberty of Conscience and Lawful Rights’: The Military Association of Pennsylvania during Two Mobilizations” Joseph Seymour, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Shenandoah (50): “Comparative Perspectives of the Normandy Invasion”
Chair: Jay B. Lockenour, Temple University
Commentator: Harold R. Winton, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
Papers:
“The Beginning of the End: D-Day in British Cultural Memory” Sam Edwards, University of Lancaster
“'Portal of Liberation’: D-Day’s Role in American Self-Affirmation” Michael R. Dolski, Temple University
Gillis Theater (500): “Armies at War amongst the People: Three Case Studies”
Chair: Brian Holden Reid, King’s College, London
Commentator: Michael Neiberg, University of Southern Mississippi
Papers:
“Butcher and Bolt: Winning Hearts and Minds in Victorian Campaigning, 1872-1899” Ian F. W. Beckett, University of Kent
“Charles Townshend’s Dilemma: The 6th Indian Division and the Civilian Population of Kut-al-Amara, December 1915-April 1916” Nikolas Gardner, U.S. Air Force Air War College
“War without Mercy? American Armed Forces and the Deaths of Civilians during the Battle for Saipan, 1944” Matthew Hughes, U.S. Marine Corps University
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Coping with Causes Lost and Won”
Chair: Lisa Mundey, University of St. Thomas
Commentator: Andrew A. Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
Papers:
“Scar Wars: Injured Servicemen and Comparative Suffering in Early Postwar Japan” Lee Kennedy Pennington, U.S. Naval Academy
“Forgetting Korea: Civil-Military Relations and Trauma after Korea” Aaron B. O’Connell, U.S. Naval Academy
“Thailand’s ‘Victory’ in the Vietnam War: Recalling the Personal and Professional Triumphs of America’s Southeast Asian Ally” Richard A. Ruth, U.S. Naval Academy
Marshall Library (40): “Recapturing Lost Memories of the First World War”
Chair: Mark A. Snell, Shepherd University
Commentator: G. Kurt Piehler, University of Tennessee
Papers:
“E. M. Viquesney’s Spirit of the American Doughboy and American Memory of World War I” Steven Trout, Fort Hays State University
“What Is To Become of Those Dead Over There?” Lisa M. Budreau, Office of the U.S. Army Surgeon General
“The Memory of the Great War in the African-American Community” Jennifer D. Keene, Chapman University
Moody Activities Room (100): “Jihad, Terror, and National Defense”
Chair: Adrienne R. Lauzon, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Commentator: William T. Dean III, U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Papers:
“The War at Home: Responding to Terrorism and Racketeering in France during the Algerian Conflict” Barnett Singer, Brock University
“The Roots of the Israeli Army” Robert B. Kane, U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency
“The Influence of History upon Modern Jihadists” Michael A. Palmer, East Carolina University
Moody Board Room (25): “Army Special Operations Forces in the Korean War”
Chair: Robert P. Wettemann, Jr., U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
Commentator: Charles H. Briscoe, U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
Papers:
“Special Operations Reaction to the Korean War” Eugene G. Piasecki, U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
“Rangers in the Korean War” Kenneth Finlayson, U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
“Ad hoc Special Operations Units in Korea” Troy J. Sacquety, U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
“Psychological Warfare Units in Korea” Robert W. Jones, Jr., U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
Session Eight: Saturday, 1515-1645
Shenandoah (50): “The British Army: Winning the Wars and Losing the History, 1899-1945”
Chair: Howard J. Fuller, University of Wolverhampton
Commentator: Howard J. Fuller, University of Wolverhampton
Papers:
“The British Army and the Boer War, 1899-1902” Spencer Jones, University of Wolverhampton
“The British Army and the First World War, 1914-1918” Stephen Badsey, University of Wolverhampton
“The British Army and the Second World War, 1939-1945” John Buckley, University of Wolverhampton
Gillis Theater (500): “Waterloo Commanders: New Interpretations of Decision-making at Waterloo”
Chair: Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University
Commentator: Donald D. Horward, Florida State University (Emeritus)
Papers:
“Napoleon and the Waterloo Campaign: Observations on the Strategy, Operations, and Tactics of the Campaign” Robert M. Epstein, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
“’To Defeat the French’: Wellington, Military Planning, and the Waterloo Campaign” Hew J. Davies, King’s College, London
“Bluecher, Decisive Victory, and Waterloo: The Long Road to a Prusso-German Way of War” Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Auxiliaries for Empires”
Chair: Terry L. Beckenbaugh, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Commentator: Robert P. Wettemann, Jr., U.S. Army Special Operations Command History Office
Papers:
“Turning Their Own against Them: Indian Auxiliary Units in the American Southwest, 1870-1886” Adam C. Kane, U.S. Naval Institute
“Hope and Glory? The Experience of the Imperial Service Troops of British India” Derek W. Blakeley, McNeese State University
“Oral Histories of Black Veterans of the Rhodesian Army and Police” Timothy J. Stapleton, Trent University
Marshall Library (40): “Covert Commandos: The Impact of OSS and CIA Paramilitary Operations on World War II and the Early Cold War”
Chair: Matthew Penney, Central Intelligence Agency
Commentator: Matthew Penny, Central Intelligence Agency
Papers:
“’The Initial Arrow of Penetration’: The OSS and the Origins of Special and Covert Paramilitary Operations, 1942-1947” Clayton D. Laurie, Central Intelligence Agency
“The Development and Application of the CIA’s Covert Paramilitary Function in the Early Cold War, 1946-1961” Nicholas Dujmovic, Central Intelligence Agency
“CIA Paramilitary Operations in Southeast Asia, 1961-1975: Findings in Recently Declassified Histories and Documents” David Robarge, Central Intelligence Agency
Moody Activities Room (100): “Military Tribunals during the Philippine Insurrection: Courts Martial, Military Commissions, and Army Lawyers”
Chair: Timothy K. Nenninger, National Archives
Commentator: Andrew J. Birtle, U.S. Army Center for Military History
Papers:
“Courts Martial of U.S. Officers” Gary Solis, Georgetown University Law Center
“Prosecuting the Insurgents” Gary M. Bowman, Judge Advocate General’s Corps
“JAG George Davis and the Role of Military Law” Frederic L. Borch, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School
Moody Board Room (25): “Modernization of the Mounted Arm in the United States Army, 1920-1945”
Chair: John T. Broom, Norwich University
Commentator: George F. Hofmann, University of Cincinnati (Emeritus)
Papers:
“’There Is No Substitute for Cavalry!’ The Life of Major General John K. Herr, Last Chief of Cavalry” Bob Seals, Norwich University
“Putting the Cart before the Horse: Strategy, Technology, and the Failure of the United States Cavalry to Innovate during the Interwar Years” Alan M. Anderson, Norwich University
“McNair’s Cavalry” Christopher N. Prigge, Harvard University
Session Nine: Sunday, 0830-1000
Shenandoah (50): “More Causes Lost and Won in Military Medicine”
Chair: Dik Daso, Smithsonian Institution
Commentator: Bob A. Wintermute, Queen’s College, CUNY
Papers:
“Nurses in Vietnam: Reluctant Volunteers or Compassionate Servants?” John R. “Ron” Milam, Texas Tech University
“Into the Domain of Medical Science: Circular No. 2 and the Development of Scientific Medicine during the American Civil War” Shauna Devine, University of Western Ontario
“’An Object of Public Attention’: Late 18th Century Military and Naval Medicine and the Literature Campaign against Yellow Fever” Monica Ayhens, University of Alabama
New Market (50): “Germany 1933-1945: ‘Enemies’ on All Fronts”
Chair: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
Commentator: Jay B. Lockenour, Temple University
Papers:
“Destroying German Ground Forces in Northwest Europe: Application of Force and Operational Tempo” John N. Rickard, Directorate of Army Training (CAN)
“’The Situation Is Once Again Quiet’: Gestapo Crimes in the Rhineland, Fall 1944” Michael P. McConnell, University of Tennessee
“Stabbed in the Back: German-Jewish Veterans under Hitler” Michael J. Geheran, Clark University
Pogue Auditorium (100): “New Paradigms in War: Enemies, Friends, and Others”
Chair: Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University
Commentator: Jonathan M. House, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Papers:
“Forging Trust by Planning for War, 1948-1968: Civil Emergency Planning and the Creation of the Franco-German Special Relationship” Nicholas J. Steneck, Florida Southern College
“The U.S. Army and the Repatriation of Soviet Citizens in Austria, 1945-1948” Ralph W. Brown III, University of Louisiana, Monroe
“Holding ‘with a Firm Hand’: The U.S. in French North Africa, 1942-1943” J. Casey Doss, U.S. Military Academy
Marshall Library (40): “How to Lose an Empire: Three Pre-Modern Case Studies”
Chair: Sarah C. Melville, Clarkson University
Commentator: Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, Maryland
Papers:
“The Qadi of Xelb’s ‘Invincible Fortress and the Decline of a Medieval Empire” Dana Cushing, Independent Scholar
“The Criteria for Winning and Losing: The Chinese Righteous War Tradition and the Judgment of Wars in the Spring and Autumn Period” Cheng-yun Chang, Kansas State University
“The Failure of Sparta” David L. Berkey, California State University, Fresno
Session Ten: Sunday, 1030-1145
Shenandoah (50): “Military Cross-currents in Africa”
Chair: Bruce Vandervort, Virginia Military Institute
Commentator: Paul Melshen, U.S. Marine Corps Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Papers:
“Troops of an Admirable Order: The British Military and the Origin of the Crown Colony of Sierra Leone” Dawn M. Hewitt, University of Calgary
“’Too Late’: Public Opinion and the Sudan Campaign of 1884-1885” Joseph M. Bickley, San Diego State University
“British Intelligence in the South African War, 1889-1902” Fransjohan Pretorius, University of Pretoria
New Market (50): “Ordinary Men in Extraordinary Times: Military Leadership in Early America, 1675-1783”
Chair: Guy Chet, University of North Texas
Commentator: Ira D. Gruber, Rice University (Emeritus)
Papers:
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Major Samuel Appleton and the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut during King Philip’s War, 1675-1676” Kyle F. Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi
“Chosen to Lead: New England Provincial Officers in the Early French Wars, 1689-1748” Steven C. Eames, Mount Ida College
“Loyalist Leadership in the Revolutionary South” Jim Piecuch, Kennesaw State University
Pogue Auditorium (100): “Americans at War in Vietnam”
Chair: Spencer C. Tucker, ABC-Clio
Commentator: Alexander S. Cochran, Office of the Chief of Staff Army
Papers:
“The Marine Corps Way: Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam” John Southard, Texas Tech University
“Men at Arms: Chivalry and the American Experience in Vietnam” Christopher J. Levesque, University of Alabama
“U.S. Commitment and Defeat in Southeast Asia” John Prados, George Washington University
Marshall Library (40):