Lecture Series Topics

April 14 - “America’s Lost Initiative: How the Suez Canal Crisis Stole America’s Goodwill in the Middle East”
February 10 - "Hide the Women and Children...for God’s Sake: Reflections on the Schmalkaldic War of Religion, 1546-47."

February 10 -- "The Interaction Between Runaway Slaves and Northern Reformers During the Civil War."
March 3 -- "African Warfare in the Era of the Slave Trade: Technology, Violence and the Making of the Atlantic World."
April 28 -- "Pro Deo et Patria (For God and Country): Chaplains in the U.S. Military"
October 13 - "Freedom on the Wings of Hope - The Berlin Airlift." at Tri-State Warbird Museum
November 11 - "Piracy - Then and Now"

February -- "I Am Ireland: Padraic Pearse and the Easter Rebellion of 1916."
March -- "The Gender of Good and Evil: Women and Holocaust Memory."
September 10 -- "House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War."
October 15 -- "Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and The Civil War In Kentucky."
October 28 -- "Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army."
November 12 -- "He Was One Of Us: American Jewry's Relationship With Abraham Lincoln."

February -- "Our Film -- Inspiring World War II British Workers to Support the Soviet Union."
March -- "I'd Rather Stalk with a Camera than a Gun: Women Photographers in World War II."
April -- "A Patch of Ground: Khe Sahn Remembered."
September 11 -- "The Effects of the 1967 War on Israeli and Palestinian Societies."
October 3 -- "The Carpetbaggers: B-24 Airdrops to the European Resistance in World War II."
October 23 -- "More than Court Jesters: What Historians Could Tell Policy Makers and Media about War, but are Seldom Asked."
November -- "World War I and Its Effects on 20th Century History."

February -- "Founding Myths: Revolution, Resistance and Nationhood in Korea."
March -- "Women and the Civil War: Paradoxes of Domesticity and Violence."
April -- "Friends for Life: The Story of a B-17 Pilot and a Tuskegee Airman."
September -- "In God We Trust: All Others We Monitor: The Role of Cryptology and Communications Intelligence in the U.S."
October -- "Blackhawk Ops Somalia Super 65: The Battle of Mogadishu, October 1993."
November -- "Are Special Operations Troops 'Expendable?'"

February -- "One Country, Two Armies: African Americans in the U.S. Military."
March 2 -- "What is the Special Relationship? The History of Anglo-American Relations in War and Peace."
April 5 -- "Just War, Jihad and Crusade: Medieval Manifestations of Holy War."
September -- "Endless Devastation: A Voyage from Khe Sahn 1968 to Gio Lihn 2003."
October -- "Flying into the Teeth of the Tiger: Air Combat over China in World War II."
December -- "The Vietnam War: One Soldier's Experience."

January 28 -- "Independence or Death: South America's Great War (The Paraguayan War of 1864-1870)."
February 26 -- "The Flying Fortress: The Story of the B-17."
March 24 -- "Flyers In Search of a Dream: Early African American Aviation."
April 5 -- "Down the Ohio and Into the Wilderness: The Lewis and Clark Expedition."
October -- "German Soldiers and Soviet Jews: The Holocaust on the Eastern Front."
November -- "How to End a War: The Case of the Bosnian Conflict."
December -- "Niccolo Machiavelli and the Renaissance 'Art of War.'"

February 11 -- "The Regulars: The American Regular Army 1898-1941."
March 19 -- "The Retrieval and Restoration of 'Glacier Girl' -- a World War II P-38 Airplane."
April 15 -- "Liberating Presidential Records."
September 30 -- "Wasn't the Future of the Airship Wonderful?"
October -- "The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age."

January 14 -- "The Meaning of Courage: The Holocaust and a Mission Against Hate."
February 20 -- "The Tuskegee Airmen: Freedom Fighters At Home and Abroad."
April 9 -- "Blood In the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War 1915."
September 17 -- "If You Can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em: Richard I, Cannibalism and the Third Crusade."
October 23 -- "I Knew the Top Nazis: Recollections of an Interrogator at the Nuremberg Trials."

February 8 -- "Myths, Misrepresentations and Misconceptions: Samori and Resistance to Colonial Conquest In West Africa, 1881-1898."
March 1 -- "They Caught Us On A Mountain Bald: Patrick Ferguson, King's Mountain, and the American Environment."
March 22 -- "With Doolittle To Japan: A Memoir by Thomas C. Griffin."
April 19 -- "Alexander and Asia: The Politics of Historical Interpretation."
September 18 -- The First Emperor of China and His Terra Cotta Warriors."
October 23 -- "POW Reminiscences of World War II."
November 15 -- "Camp Dennison: Civil War Museum and Memories."

February 10 -- "France and the Mirage of Grandeur and Independence."
March 23 -- "Breaking the Cycle of Violence and War: Political Forgiveness In International Relations."
April 20 -- "The Atom Bomb: The Truth At Last."
September 7 -- "'The English Patient' and the Wounds of War."
October 12 -- "On the Spot: Lincoln Visits Civil War Battlefields."
November 2 -- "Col. John Singleton Mosby: Gray Ghost and Folk Hero."
November 15 -- "Appalachia's Battle of Blair Mountain and Denise Giardina's 'Storming Heaven.'"

January 26 -- "She Served Too: Women and the Vietnam War Experience."
March 11 -- "It Was Sweet While It Lasted: British Women Tell Stories of Their Relationships With American GIs During World War II."
March 24 -- "Vietnam: The War That Never Seems To Go Away."
April 20 -- "A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II."
September 21 -- "An Unmilitary History: The Cold War In Germany, 1952-1953."
October 21 -- "Rape In Wartime."
November 10 -- "Patton Trooper: "I Was There."

January 29 -- "The Civil War and American Painting."
February 17 -- Fighting On Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War."
February 26 -- "Towards A German America? The German Nazis in the United States 1933-1945."
September 17 -- "Coastal Group 37: A Memoir of the Junk Force in the Mekong Delta."
November 4 -- "What Parker Did and Pitcairn Said: An Investigation Into the Affair on Lexington Green, April 19, 1775."

January 28 -- "Worthy Descendants of the Maccabeans: English Speaking Jewry, Ethnic Identity, and the Great War.
February 7 -- "Mary Boykin Chestnut: Confederate Critic of Slavery."
April 3 -- World War II and Housing In America: Technology on the Domestic Front."
September 25 -- "The Environmental Legacy of the U.S. Nuclear Shield."
November 6 -- "Disease and the War of the Rebellion."

January 25 -- "The Knights Fought Without Cowardice Or Faint Hearts: What Really Happened at the Battle of Otterburn."
February 12 -- "Forever Free: On the Character of the Black Union Regiments In Charleston and the Sea Islands."
April 16 -- "With the U.S. 4th Armored Division In World War II: Normandy Breakout, Bastogne, The Rhine, The Russians."
September 17 -- "Fighting Without Mercy: Prisoner Rebellions in Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz/Birkenau."
November 21 -- "Irregular Warfare: The Parallel Tactics of Mosby's Rangers and Navy SEALs."

January 25 -- "The Dreyfus Affair: A Centennial Appraisal."
February 28 -- "D-Day Revisited."
April 5 -- "Poet Whitman and General Custer: A Paper with Illustrations."
September 26 -- "The Pocahontas Legend; The Uses Of A Myth."
October 26 -- "The Gettysburg Nobody Knows."
November 28 -- "Women and Children First?: The World War II Internment of Japanese-Americans."

February 7 -- "The Black Union Regiments In Charleston and the Sea Islands During the Civil War."
February 15 -- "To Enhance the Suffering: Chemical Warfare In World War I and Since."
November 1 -- "The Frontier Thesis and Kentucky Culture: What Is the Kentucky Mind?"
December 1 -- "Today's Poets, Yesterday's War."

October 19 -- The Best Propaganda Films of All: The RAF, Hollywood and the Making of Eagle Squadron 1940-1942."
November 11 -- "Personality, Policy and Public Pressure, The Machine Gun Question in the U.S. 1916-1918."