In this episode, our moderator, Anotida Chikumbu sits with Robert Citino, the Museum's Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian. He is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published 10 books including The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich and numerous articles covering World War II and 20th century military affairs. In 2021, he won the Samuel Morison Prize from the Society for Military History, for lifetime achievement in the field. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as World War II. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in history from Ohio State University and earned a M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the US military establishment, and taught one year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and two years at the U.S. Army War College.

Overview

The National World War II Museum and The Society for Military History is currently co-hosting “The Summer Seminar in Military History” from June 12 – July 2, 2022. The purpose of this three-week, in-residence experience is to grow and strengthen the study of military history by introducing fellows to the profession’s fundamental concepts and questions, its contemporary concerns and approaches, and its leading scholars.

Summer Seminar in Military History Goals

-Fellows master the pedagogical techniques required to develop and teach survey courses and more focused course offerings in military history.
-Fellows gain the methodological and historiographical knowledge that will prepare them to make scholarly contributions to the field.
-Fellows are exposed to the historiography that has shaped the development and directions of military history.
-Fellows are introduced to the wealth of resources available in the field and offered advice on how to use them in their teaching and scholarship.
Leading military historians share their knowledge with fellows and a broader audience through public presentations at the Institute.
-Fellows become familiar with the expectations of Army and Navy ROTC courses fulfilling curricular requirements for pre-commissioning military and maritime history.
-Fellows grow personally and professionally by developing networks among and across chronological and topical fields of study.

N.B. THIS SEMINAR IS A PARTNERED PROGRAM BETWEEN THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM'S JENNY CRAIG INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND DEMOCRACY AND THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY WITH SUPPORT FROM THE DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION.

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