America in WWII
The Center for Free Inquiry's Crowe Academy presents ...
America in World War II
June 18-21, 2000
This presentation of the Crowe Academy provides a thorough and wide-ranging look at World War II as it affected and was affected by the lives of all Americans. The Academy will open on June 18, 2000 with a dinner for all participants.
With the help of some outstanding scholars, we will relive battles, look at the lives of ordinary citizens, study the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike.
We will also watch a WWII-era film in nearby Madison, Indiana. There will be plenty of opportunity for lively interaction and discussion. There will also be ample opportunity to enjoy the serene beauty of Hanover College's 650 acre wooded campus.
Faculty
D'Ann Campbell - VP of Academic Affairs University of New Hampshire-Manchester - Dr. Campbell earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and is the author of Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era (Harvard University Press, 1984). She has also published 41 research articles in scholarly journals and books. She lectures frequently on topics that range from women's issues to teaching with computers. A versatile and well-known scholar, Dr. Campbell will be an interesting addition to the Crowe Academy faculty.
David Kahn, Author - Dr. Kahn is the author of three books: The Codebreakers, Hitler's Spies, and Seizing the Enigma and many articles on cryptology and intelligence in such publications as the New York Times, Playboy, Atlantic Monthly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and the Encyclopedia Americana. He was for many years an editor at Newsday. He holds a Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford University and has taught courses on political and military intelligence at Yale and Columbia. He has lectured widely on intelligence, has testified before Congress on policy matters dwelling with cryptology, and appears on television from time to time as an expert in the history of cryptology. He is a founding co-editor of the scholarly quarterly Cryptology and is a member of the board of editors of Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Cryptology, and MHQ: The Military Intelligence Quarterly. He serves on the boards of trustees of the World War Two Studies Association, the St. Antony's College (Oxford) North American Trust and the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation. He has lived in Paris, where he helped edit the International Herald Tribune, in Freilburg-im-Breisgau, where he researched in the Militarachiv, and in oxford, where he wrote his dissertation. At present he lives in Great Neck, Long Island, where he grew up.
William Leyden, World War II veteran - As a participant in the actual conflict, Mr. Leyden will give the Crowe Academy participants an eyewitness account and analysis of the global war arena.
Jim Madison, Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington - a specialist in: U.S., Indiana and Midwest, and 20th-century United States history. Dr. Madison earned a Ph.D. from IU in 1972. Author of several books and articles, he is the former editor of Indiana Magazine of History. He teaches courses on WW II home fronts and has won the Sylvia E. Bowmen Distinguished Teaching Award and the Indiana Historical Society's Distinguished Hoosier Historian Award. With his knowledge and experience, Dr. Madison will educate Crowe Academy participants about the conditions facing American's left to carry on at home.
Daniel Murphy, Associate Professor of History, Hanover College. Dr. Murphy earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1988 and joined the Hanover College faculty that same year. Dr. Murphy is a specialist in American History and will give Crowe Academy participants a glimpse of American home front culture during WW II.
Gerhard Weinberg, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - With a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, Dr. Weinberg earned many fellowships and won several awards for his studies of WWII. He served in the US Army during the aftermath of WW II before attending UC and went on to teach college. The author of 12 books and numerous articles, Dr. Weinberg will be the keynote speaker at the Crowe Academy, 2000.
Schedule of Events
Sunday, June 18
4:00 p.m. through 5:30 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Keynote "America in the War," Professor
Gerhard Weinberg
Monday, June 19
8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. "America on War's Eve," Professor
Daniel Murphy
10:30 a.m. to Noon "War on the Home Front," Professor
Jim Madison
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Ohio Theatre
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Dinner
Tuesday, June 20
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. "Women and the War," Professor
D'Ann Campbell
10:30 a.m. to Noon "The Post War Economic Plans of Roosevelt and
Hitler, Professor Gerhard Weinberg
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. "Personal Experiences of the War" - Panel
Discussion
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Dancing to the Ovation Orchestra
Wednesday, June 21
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. "Codes and Code Breaking in
the War," Dr. David Kahn
10:30 a.m. to Noon "A Marine's Experience in the Pacific Theatre,"
Mr. William Leyden
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch, End of Symposium