The Maginot Line has assumed a mythical status as the height of French interwar doctrinal stagnation. The reality, however, is that the Maginot Line represented a potential solution to the […]
Join the Dole Institute Student Advisory Board for the spring Student Advisory Board Program, featuring a discussion on how the One Big Beautiful Bill's effects on Medicaid and the new […]
Come one, come all, for the Dole Institute’s Easter Egg Roll with Dole! Join us on Saturday, April 4, for a morning of family fun, including a White House-style egg […]
Ben Franklin promised us unparalleled freedom with burdens to uphold it, never before placed upon a citizenry. What was this novel form of government bestowed on our young nation and […]
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More information about the Spring 2026 edition of The Counselors is coming soon. Save the date to join us at the Dole Institute on Thursday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. This event […]
We live in a land of unprecedented wealth and success. Yet, America is plagued with economic disparities and despair – a place where our “happiness” ranks only 24th among developed […]
This presentation examines the experiences of American military and political figures who were present in France for the Prussian victory in 1870-71 over Napoleon III, as well as the observations […]
Napoleon remains a character of endless fascination, even more than two centuries after his death. The God of War, as one biographer identified him, conquered much of Europe before his […]
Following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britian, the United States’ Continental Army under the leadership of George Washington attempted to defend New York City in August of 1776. During […]
Perhaps the most memorable campaign that underpinned US Army LTG Ulysses S. Grant’s military strategy of 1864, MG William Tecumseh Sherman’s Savannah Campaign exhausted the Southern Confederacy and hastened an […]
More information on this Ft. Leavenworth Series program is coming soon. Save the date to join us at the Dole Institute of Politics on the first Wednesday of each month […]
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