Christians United for Israel
University of North Texas – BLB70
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM
"The Role of the IDF in Israeli Society and in the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
Born in Jerusalem, Nadav Weinberg grew up in Seattle and Cleveland. After graduating from Case Western Reserve University and declining an offer from Wall Street, he moved to Israel and joined the IDF in 2008. Sergeant Weinberg will speak about his experiences in the IDF and offer his perspectives on the military’s role in Israel and in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Israel Fair
University of North Texas – Campus Green
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Celebrate Israeli Independence Day!
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Air Power Symposium
American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum
May 7, 2012 from 11:30 AM
The Military History Center of the University of North Texas invites you to the 4th Annual Air Power Symposium: “The Two Faces of Air Power” by Dr. Dennis Showalter. The event will be held at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum (4601 Hwy 360 @ FAA Road, DFW Airport, Texas 75261) on Monday, May 7, 2012. At 11:30 a.m. will be a “Meet and Greet” hosted by the Executive Council of the Military History Center followed at 12:00 p.m. by the Lunch/Lecture/Discussion. Join us for lunch as Dr. Showalter discusses the application of airpower on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during the Second World War.
A professor of history at Colorado College, Dennis Showalter is a widely recognized expert on military history, focusing primarily on Germany and the United States. His experience includes serving as president of the Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001, and teaching at several service academies, including the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the Marine Corps University. A prolific author, Dr. Showalter’s publications include Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare; If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II; The Wars of German Unification; Tannenberg: Clash of Empires; The Wars of Frederick the Great; Railroads and Rifles: Soldiers, Technology and The Unification of Germany; and Patton and Rommel: Men Of War in the 20th Century. Tannenberg won the American Historical Association's Paul M. Birdsall Prize for best new book of 1992. Dr. Showalter also received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize in 2005 and the Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award in 2002 from the Society for Military History, and the Clio Award from the Department of History, U.S. Air Force Academy in 2000. He has served on the academic council of Center for Security Policy and on the board of directors for the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in 2008, a policy group in Washington, D.C. Dr. Showalter received his B.A. from St. John's University in 1963, his M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1965, and his Ph.D. likewise from Minnesota in 1969. He was the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1991-1993 and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1997-1998.
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Texas History Symposium
University of North Texas – EESAT 130
April 21, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Dr. Richard McCaslin will be speaking on "The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in 1862." Dr. McCaslin earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently the University of North Texas Department of History Chairman. Dr. McCaslin is the author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862.
Dr. L D. Clark will be our guest speaker. Dr. Clark received his PhD from Columbia University and has had a long career of teaching English at the University of Arizona, the University of Nice, and Korea University. He is the author of A Bright Tragic Thing and Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark.
Lunch will be catered by Randy White’s Barbeque, and a book signing will follow the seminar.
UNT Students are FREE
$25 for Adults and $15 for High/Middle School Students
http://www.tshaonline.org/forms/texas-history-symposium-registration
This link to the Texas State Historical Association allows registrants to pay for the seminar by credit card!
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Women’s Studies Presents: A 2012 Women’s History Month Lecture
University of North Texas – Terrill Hall 120
March 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Dr. Elizabeth Hayes Turner will be our guest speaker, and her lecture is “‘To Help Our Nation Find Its Soul’: Women and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.” Dr. Turner is the author of Women and Gender in the New South, 1865-1945 and Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920. In 2003, she was a Fulbright Lecturer to the University of Genoa, Italy. For spring 2011, she was awarded a Bill & Rita Clements Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America from the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. In 2011 the Texas State Historical Association elected her a Fellow. Dr. Turner’s current book project is Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration.
“To Help Our Nation Find Its Soul” is a quotation from a Poor People’s Campaign brochure and epitomizes the goals of women who participated in the campaign—that is to stop the war in Vietnam and to feed the poor, particularly African Americans in the Mississippi Delta, Native Americans in the West, and Mexican Americans in the Southwest. From May to June, nine caravans of protesters, nearly 5,000 people, came to Washington, D. C. under the sponsorship of the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) and camped for six weeks on the National Mall. Every day they lobbied to end the war and increase funding for LBJ’s war on poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was the last dream of Martin Luther King, one that thousands of women helped to fulfill. The results were nothing short of life changing for the participants.
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Women’s History Lecture
University of North Texas – BLB 80
March 8, 2012 at 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Dr. Laura Bier will be our guest speaker, and she will be lecturing on "Women in Egypt’s Three Revolutions: The Forces of History and the Prospects for the Future." Dr. Bier is an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at Georgia Tech. She earned her PhD from New York University in History and Middle East Studies and has received a number of grants, including a Fulbright and a Fulbright-Hays for her research on gender and state socialism in Egypt. Dr. Bier is the author of Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity and the State in Nasser’s Egypt.
Book Signing to Follow
FREE and open to the public
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Black History Lecture
University of North Texas – ESSC 255
February 29, 2012 at 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Dr. Devin Fergus will be our guest speaker, and he will be lecturing on "Land of the Fee: The Hidden History of the Ghetto Tax, 1980-2008." Dr. Fergus earned his PhD from Columbia University and has been a Mellon Fellow at Cambridge University, a Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellow, and a Fellow at The James Weldon Johnson Institute. Dr. Fergus is the author of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 and currently teaches history at Hunter College in New York.
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UNT Jewish Studies Talk: "The Life of a Holocaust Survivor and Theatre-Film Artist"
University of North Texas – Golden Eagle Suite
January 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
“The Life of a Holocaust Survivor and Theatre-Film Artist” — A lecture at the University of North Texas by Jack Garfein, who survived imprisonment in a concentration camp at age 13 and became a successful Broadway director after immigrating to America. Presented by UNT’s Jewish Studies Program. Followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing.
Cost: FREE
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UNT Jewish Studies Talk: "Entertaining Nazis"
University of North Texas – ESSC 255
December 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM
"Entertaining Nazis: American Universities' Shameful Relationship with Hitler's Germany"
Dr. Norwood will discuss how American universities forged friendly ties with Nazi Germany, helping the Hitler regime enhance its image in the West as it intensified its persecution of Jews and strengthened its armed forces. The lecture will contrast the significant American grassroots protest against Nazism with campus quiescence and university administrators' harsh treatment of professors and students who challenged their universities' determination to maintain friendly relations with the Third Reich.
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Incorporating East Asia Into the Secondary Curriculum
Southern Methodist University
February and March of 2012
The University of North Texas Department of History and Southern Methodist University Department of Religious Studies Present:
THE SPRING SEMINAR ON INCORPORATING EAST ASIA INTO THE SECONDARY CURRICULUM
FREE lecture series!
Sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia and funded by a grant from the Freeman Foundation This Spring Seminar consists of a series of seven in-person sessions to be held on the campus of Southern Methodist University and three online sessions hosted on Blackboard through the University of North Texas website. The Spring Seminar is designed to supply teachers of social studies and world history with the basic knowledge needed to incorporate East Asia into their courses. Topics have been chosen with the needs of the TEKS and of the AP World History standards in mind. Teachers in other disciplines (such as literature or art) whose courses can incorporate East Asia are also welcome to register.
Seminar topics: Geography and the Foundations of East Asian Civilizations, Belief Systems: Daoism, Confucianism, and Legalism, Chinese Empires and Their Neighbors: Qin, Han, Period of North/South Division and Tang, Aesthetes and Warriors in Japanese History, The Mongols in World History, China and the World in the Ming Dynasty, East Asia’s 19th Century: Dealing With Imperialism, East Asia in WWI and WWII, The Korean and Vietnam Wars: Background and East Asian Perspectives, Mao Zedong’s China, and Democracy in East Asia.
Study Tour Eligibility: Teachers who participate in NCTA programs may become eligible to apply for heavily subsidized Study Tours to East Asia by attending at least 30 hours of NCTA seminars and submitting a report on how they have used the knowledge and material from the NCTA seminars into their teaching by February 1 of the year the person applies for a study tour. Study Tours will be offered on a competitive basis and are subject to the availability of funding.
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Executive Council Discussion Series
University of North Texas – Art 223
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM
We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 30 November, Colonel John Antal, US Army (retired), will present the Fall 2011 Lecture of the Executive Council Discussion Series on the subject of “Warfare in the 21st Century.” Colonel Antal is a military affairs expert; the author of twelve books on military subjects; a professional developer of military software applications, simulations and constructive war games; and a life-long student of the art of war. As a military officer he has commanded combat units from platoon to regiment and held sensitive key positions on high level Army, joint and combined military staffs. He is an Airborne Ranger and retired as Colonel of Armor. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, the Command and General Staff College, the Army War College and has a Masters Degree in Military Science.
Colonel Antal’s presentation will begin at 7:00 P.M. on the evening of 30 November. Due to space constraints, the lecture will be held in room 223 of the Art Building on the northern end of Welch Avenue. Metered Parking is available across the street on Welch, as well as further down Welch in the UNT Parking Garage. Please park only in the metered lots or in the garage to avoided being ticketed. This link will bring you to an interactive map of campus to help you find the Art Building and parking locations. http://maps.unt.edu/
Please feel free to call the History Department at 940 565 2288 with any questions. This event is free and open to the public.
29th Annual Alfred and Johanna Hurley Military History Seminar
October 8, 2011
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Teaching of History Conference 2011
University of North Texas – Wooten Hall
September 24, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
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Central Texas Military History Symposium
University of North Texas – Central Texas College: Nursing Building
August 6, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Military History: Past Perspective and Future Relevance
Event is located at BLDG 155 of CTC, 6200 W. Central Texas Expwy, Killeen, Texas 76549. Registration costs $25 and bust be completed by July 30.
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Third Annual Air Power Symposium
University of North Texas – American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum
May 2, 2011 11:30 AM
The Military History Center of the University of North Texas is pleased to announce that it will hold the 3rd Annual Air Power Symposium on Monday, May 2, 2011 at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum (4601 Hwy 360 @ FAA Road, DFW Airport, Texas 75261). The title of the program is "Designing an Air Force for the 21st Century" and Dr. Grant Hammond will give the luncheon address. At 11:30a will be a "Meet and Greet" hosted by the Executive Council of the Military History Center followed at 12:00p by the Lunch/Lecture/Discussion. For more information, please go to: http://military.hist.unt.edu/apsymposium.htm
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Texas History Symposium
University of North Texas – Wooten Hall 222
April 23, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Dr. Gary Joiner of LSU-Shreveport and Mr. Scott Dearman of the Mansfield National Battlefield Site will be our speakers for this year’s Texas History Symposium, focused on the topic of Texas and the Red River Campaign, 1864. There will a delicious BBQ catered lunch provided for all attendees. Registration and further details coming soon.
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Women's History Month at UNT
University of North Texas – ESSC 255
March 31, 2011 at 6:00 PM
Guest Speaker: Dr. Megan Conway, LSU-Shreveport
Dr. Conway will be giving a lecture entitled "Olympe de Gouges: The Feminist’s Passionate Path to the Guillotine." Born May 7th, 1748 and guillotined November 3rd, 1793 Olympe de Gouges was a remarkable French playwright and activist, dangerously steadfast in her belief that French women should have the same rights as French men.
Military History Discussion Series
University of North Texas – Wooten Hall 122
March 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM
http://military.hist.unt.edu/2011-march-discussionseries.htm
National Consortium on Teaching about Asia
Professional Seminars, 2011
Southern Methodist University
“Xinjiang: From Silk Road to the Nuclear Age” Saturday April 16th, 2011. 9:45 am - 2:30 pm
The goal of this seminar will be to prepare teachers to incorporate Xinjiang in world geography and world history courses both as an example of the diversity and complexity of the “Silk Roads” and as an example of the political, economic, and ethnic challenges of modern China.
“The Mongols in World History” Saturday April 30th, 2011. 9:45 am - 2:30 pm
This seminar represents a rare opportunity to learn about the Mongols from two of the leading scholars of Mongolian studies.
“East Asia: an Introduction for Teachers” Monday May 2nd, 2011. 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The purpose of this workshop is to provide teachers who are unfamiliar with East Asia with a general introduction to the area and to resources and opportunities to learn more about it.
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