American And
Military History
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-George
Washington - God's Man For America
(106 Slide .PDF - 14 MB)
-George
Washington - God's Man For America
(Article)
-Washington's Farewell Address To The People of The United States
Little
recognition is paid anymore to the character development of our country’s
foremost founding father,
George Washington. Discover how Washington’s lack of formal training
in French prevented him from fulfilling
his life-long dream, but led to his subsequent role as our nation’s
first commander-in-chief.
-The
Family Connection Between George Washington
And Robert E. Lee
General Henry Lee (1756-1818) delivered the eulogy for President George Washington (1732-1799) at his state funeral in December 1799. His son, Robert E. Lee was born on his 51st birthday, just five miles from Washington’s birthplace, on the shores of the Potomac Estuary in the Great Neck of Virginia. Like Washington, Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) lost his father at a tender age and served his widowed mother admirably the remainder of her life. After graduating from West Point in 1829, Robert E. Lee married the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), George Washington’s step-grandson, who was raised by Washington at Mt. Vernon.
Retracing Steps - Mountain Man - Joe Walker
In October 1833 Mountain Man Joe Walker led a party of 60 free trappers across the Great Basin along the Humboldt River, thence across the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Alta California, in vicinity of what is now Yosemite National Park. While making their crossing they lost 24 horses, but also described grand vistas, cliffs that appeared a mile high, waterfalls, and giant Sequoia trees. Walker was the only American to trek overland with a U.S. Passport and Mexican visa issued in Washington, DC. Find out why in “Re-examining the Route of Mountain Man Joseph Walker in October 1833.”
-Background
And Review of The Film
Gods And Generals
The
trilogy Gods and Generals, Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure profile
some of most intriguing
personalities of the American Civil War, which have been made into feature
films. This film review focuses
on Gods and Generals, the first in the series, but also summarizes the other
two. The stress of war inevitably
exposes the character and values of its leaders, some of whom fail miserably,
while others shine forth, leaving
their mark on history. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863)
rose from almost complete obscurity as
a teacher at Virginia Military Institute to become one of the great tacticians
of military history in the brief span
of two years. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) left his teaching
job at Bowdoin College, never imagining
the impact his service will have on his country and on his subsequent career.
-Theodore
Judah And The Blazing of The
First Transcontinental Railroad Over The Sierra Nevadas
The
son of a New England Episcopal minister, Theodore Judah (1826-1863) conceived
and laid out the
route of the First Transcontinental Railroad over the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
but did not gain a single
penny from the enterprise. This great civil engineer changed the course
of American history by opening
the West and bringing fabulous fortunes to the Big Four that owned the Central
Pacific Railroad.
-Abstract:
Nine Ways The Titanic Might Have Been Saved
-Titanic
Lecture Notes
RMS
Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith (1850-1912) was the most experienced captain
on the North Atlantic
and highest paid mariner in the world at the time of his untimely death in
April 1912. Why didn’t he pay more
heed to the iceberg reports he received from other ships? How might all of
the Titanic’s passengers have been
saved? The innumerable lessons of the Titanic disaster are as important today
as they were almost a century ago.
-Development of the World's
Fastest Battleships
The
Iowa Class were the fastest battleships ever constructed, and the longest
lived (1943-1992).
Explore the political intrigue to lead to their timely development
and learn how these vessels kept
re-emerging and soldiering on, long after most people had written them off
as useless dinosaurs.
The U-505 was the only enemy warship captured by America on the high seas between the War of 1812 and present.
Read Capture of the U-505 and learn how this unusual vessel came into American hands and why it is displayed at the
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
The U.S. Navy went from 150 Civil Engineering Corps personnel in September 1939 to over 350,000 personnel by 1945.
These are two in a series of lectures I give to my combat engineering students at nearby Fort Leonard Wood, to expose them to the remarkable heritage of the Navy Seebees.
-East Meets West at Pearl Harbor:
A Historical Perspective 50 Years Later
One of the most interesting facets of my military career was participating in the 50th anniversary symposium of
the attack on Pearl Harbor, convened over three days in the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu in December 1991.
Japanese and American participants described their roles in history, providing historians with much new information.
Of particular interest to me were the near-continuous misunderstandings in the interpretation of collected information and
intelligence
gathered by either side in regards to the intentions and supposed reactions of the other.
The Pacific War
was a clash between two distinctly different cultures, who struggle to understand one another to this day.
How One Man Can Change History
The diligence of these four men aboard the battleship USS Nevada on December 7, 1941 impacted millions of people who might otherwise been killed during the Second World War. Find out how a modest engineer who raised seven sons in Abilene, Kansas around the turn of the last Century also changed the course of history in World War II.
-Doolittle,
Black Monday, and Innovation
In
January 1944 Jimmy Doolittle replaced Ira Eaker as commander of the U.S. 8th
Air Force in England, the largest aerial
armada ever assembled. Doolittle defeated the German
Luftwaffe, but not by bombing their aircraft factories,
which the Germans smartly moved below ground. Find out why successful
leaders must be masters of innovation.
-
Iwo Jima: The costliest battle in American history
It
is the most storied image of the Second World War, taken by a near-sighted
31-year old Associated
Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal, who stood just 5 feet-5 inches tall.
The story behind the picture
and the world’s tallest cast bronze sculptures is one of intrigue, timing,
and sacrifice.
-The Race To Build The Atomic Bomb
It
was the greatest research enterprise in history, which almost no one knew
about and even fewer
believed would bear fruit. Its success brought a quick and unexpected
end to the most deadly conflict in
human history, but left the specter of terror over mankind in the wake of
its deployment. The success of
Manhattan Project only came about because of the unprecedented marriage between
scientists, politicians,
and the military.
-Sigma Xi Lecture: The Race To Build The Atomic Bomb
-The Conversion
of Commander Rogers
A
baby boomer who grows up believing that the dropping of the atomic bombs were
unnecessary is challenged
by interviews he conducts with members of Emperor Hirohito’s cabinet
40 years later. The generational
rift in America about the role of the atomic bombs in bringing about a premature
end to World War II is
much the same in Japan. The actual story of how the world’s bloodiest
conflict was brought to an
unexpected end should never be forgotten.
Questions
or comments on this page?
E-mail Dr. J David Rogers at rogersda@mst.edu.
