Projects
In addition to organizing traditional symposia and workshops, the Center has sponsored several Public and digital projects.
Teaching Military History Website
In 2021, the Center sponsored the creation of a website entirely dedicated to the teaching of military history. Teachingmilitaryhistory.com features a wide range of syllabi and assignments on military history topics designed by contributors from the United States and around the world. The website covers levels 6-12, undergraduate, graduate, and PME (Professional Military Education) and seeks to foster conversations about pedagogy and the integration of military history into the curriculum. The project will keep expanding over years to come as more people contribute materials.
“The teaching military history project is to help all of us expand beyond our own scholarly bubbles, our pedagogical bubbles, to encourage us to find inspiration in the range and the depth of our field, to think about useful ways to engage our students.”
— Beth Bailey, CMWSS Founding Director
War on Drugs Project
In 2020, CMWSS hosted a symposium entitled “The War on Drugs: Fifty Years, a Trillion Dollars, and Thirty Million Arrests.” This page is a companion to the newly published volume The War on Drugs: A History, edited by David Farber, and features material created by Clark Terrill and designed by Marjorie Galelli. It includes a teaching guide for each chapter, containing both questions and a list of key terms and themes; a timeline for the war on drugs; and a list of primary sources useful for teaching about this topic.
Hall Center Military & Society Faculty Seminar
Held at the Hall Center for the Humanities
September 21, 2017
Prof. Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society at Texas Christian University.
"No Beer, No Booze, No Babes: Entertaining America's Volunteer Military”
October 19, 2017
Greg Daddis, Director of Program in War and Society, Chapman University
“Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Men’s Adventure Magazines of the Cold War Era”
November 16, 2017
Alesha Doan & Shannon Portillo , University of Kansas
“Organizational Oblivion: Gendered Norms, Practices, and Policies in the Military”
January 18, 2018
Mariya Omelicheva, Department of Political Science, University of Kansas
“U.S. Security Assistance in Central Asia: Explaining Mixed Success in Building States’ Capacity to Combat Trafficking and Terrorism”
February 15 , 2018
Symposium, “Managing Sex in the U.S. Military”
March 15, 2018
Vincent Francisco, Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas
“Health Promotion for Military Bases and Base Communities”
April 19, 2018
John Worsencroft, Department of History and the Waggonner Center, Louisiana Tech
“Saving Marginalized Men: How the Department of Defense Fought the War on Poverty, 1964-1968.”