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SUMMARY:America at 250 Special Exhibits
DESCRIPTION:Commemorate America at 250 with three special exhibits highlighting the Declaration of Independence\, Kansas\, and the last major commemoration of America’s founding. Experience these special exhibits starting Feb. 16\, on display in the Elizabeth Dole Gallery & Reading Room. \nDeclaration 1776: The Big Bang of Modern Democracy uses primary sources to illustrate how Americans and people across the world have been inspired by the Declaration of Independence in their pursuit of equality and self-determination. This special exhibit was developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. \nSpirit of ’76 features original artifacts from the Dole Archives that highlight the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations\, which commemorated 200 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. \nKansas in 1776 provides insight into what the Kansas landscape looked like while the Founding Fathers penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776. This special exhibit was developed by Humanities Kansas. \n  \n \nThis exhibit is presented in partnership with Humanities Kansas
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/america-at-250-special-exhibits/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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SUMMARY:Arctic Security: The New Front Line
DESCRIPTION:Join Ambassador Mike Sfraga\, former Ambassador-at-large for Arctic Affairs\, and Colonel Russell Vanderlugt\, commanding officer of the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division’s Arctic Aviation Command\, for a high-level conversation moderated by Dole Institute Visiting Fellow Jerry Seib on why the Arctic matters now—where diplomacy and military strategy converge amid strategic chokepoints\, great power competition\, and evolving national security challenges. \n  \n          \nThis program is presented in partnership with the KU Office of National Defense Initiatives\, the Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence\, and the KU Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies. This program is co-sponsored by KU International Affairs and the KU Department of Political Science. \n  \n\n  \nJerry Seib has been a journalist with The Wall Street Journal for almost 45 years. He served as the Journal’s Executive Washington Editor and wrote the weekly “Capital Journal” column for 29 years. He also reported from the Middle East for the Journal in the mid-1980s\, covered the White House\, has moderated three presidential debates\, and interviewed every president since Ronald Reagan. \nAmbassador Mike Sfraga\, Ph.D.\, was nominated and later confirmed by a bipartisan vote of the U.S. Senate to serve as the nation’s first ambassador-at-large for Arctic affairs. He was twice appointed to serve as chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission. Sfraga previously served as the founding director and then-chair and distinguished fellow of the Polar Institute\, as well as director of the Global Risk and Resilience Program\, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is a Fulbright Scholar and co-developed and twice served as co-lead scholar for the U.S. State Department’s inaugural Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Sfraga earned the first Ph.D. in Northern studies and geography from UAF. He also has a bachelor’s degree from UAF and a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University. \nColonel Russell Vanderlugt assumed command of the 11th Airborne Division’s Arctic Aviation Command at Fort Wainwright on August 8\, 2024. The Arctic Aviation Command is a brigade-level organization consisting of 71 aircraft and all aviation elements assigned to the US Army’s Arctic Division. In his previous assignment\, he served at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as Joint Director of Strategy and Plans\, J-5\, for the Alaskan NORAD Region and Alaskan Command – a joint command reporting to US Northern Command. He holds a doctorate in Arctic and Northern History from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While serving on active duty in the Army over the past 24 years\, he and his spouse have raised four children – now all teenagers – two of whom were born in Fairbanks.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/arctic-security/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dole Forum
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SUMMARY:The Operational Perspective: American Observations of the Franco-Prussian War
DESCRIPTION: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 of newspaper editors and columnists in the United States opining on military events overseas. Some of these observers were veterans of the American Civil War. Their commentary offers a window into how warfare in Europe\, including the innovations of Helmuth von Moltke and the Prussian army\, compared with American understandings of large-scale military operations. \n  \n\n  \nZachery A. Fry is an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, and the author of A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020). He taught history previously at the U.S. Military Academy West Point. Fry’s research focuses on politics in Civil War armies\, and his work has received the Coffman Prize from the Society for Military History\, the Hay-Nicolay Prize from the Abraham Lincoln Institute / Abraham Lincoln Association\, and the Hubbell Prize from Civil War History. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-operational-perspective-american-observations-of-the-franco-prussian-war/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
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