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Vita for Dale E. Wilson

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Education

BA, Business (minor, Journalism), McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois (1981).

MA, History, Temple University, Philadelphia (1988).

Ph.D., History, Temple University (1990). Russell F. Weigley, major adviser. Major field: Military history since the fourteenth century. Minor fields: American political (with Herbert T. Bass) and social (with Kenneth E. Kusmer) history since 1870, and American diplomatic history (with Waldo H. Heinrichs).

Teaching Experience

Professor, American Military University, Manassas Park, Virginia, 1996–2004. Taught two-semester American military history graduate studies course. AMU is a distance-education school.

Adjunct instructor, Department of History, University of San Francisco (1992). Taught American history survey.

Adjunct instructor, Social Sciences Department, College of Marin, Kentfield, California, (1991–92). Taught American history survey under special contract to inmates at St. Quentin Prison.

Instructor and Assistant Professor, Department of History, United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York (1988–91). Taught two-semester military history survey and honors sections of same course.

Instructor, Defense Information School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana (1976–78). Taught undergraduate-level journalism courses.

Teaching Interests/Strengths

Modern military history survey and electives (emphasis on western warfare since the seventeenth century). U.S. military history with emphasis on the Civil War, the two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, and the African-American military experience.

American history survey and post-Reconstruction American history electives (with emphasis on social/cultural and diplomatic history).

Scholarly Publications

''Treat ‘Em Rough! The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20'' (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1989). A pioneering, critically acclaimed study of the U.S. Army Tank Corps from its creation through its disbandment with the National Defense Act of 1920.

Articles and Pamphlets

"A Time to Live; a Time to Die: The Sad Saga of Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers," in the special fiftieth anniversary of WWII commemorative issue of the Negro History Bulletin published jointly by the Association for the Study ofAfro-American Life and History and the United States WWII 50th Anniversary Committee, May 1994: 52–56.

"Recipe for Failure: Major General Edward M. Almond and Preparation 92d Infantry Division for Combat in World War II," Journal of Military History 56, no. 4 (July 1992): 473–88.

"Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.," in New American Biography, Oxford University Press.

Eight articles in The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia. Anne Cipriano-Venzon, ed. (New York: Garland, 1995).

"The Army’s Black Tank Battalions," Armor (March-April 1982): 30–31.

A Handbook for Stringers in the Armed Forces (USGPO, 1978). A pamphlet covering basic journalism techniques.

Numerous other articles in various military and civilian trade publications and professional journals on a wide variety of subjects.

Book Reviews

Review of Into Cambodia: Spring Campaign/Summer Offensive, 1970, by Keith W. Nolan, in Military Review (November 1990): 86.

Review of Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962–1968, by William M. Hammond, in Army (May 1990): 66–67.

Review of Hamburger Hill, by Samuel Zaffiri, in Military Review (April 1990): 91.

Review of The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965–1973, by Shelby L. Stanton, in Military Review (January 1987): 93–94.

Conference Presentations

Paper, "Paradigms Lost: The Impact of Segregation on African Americans in the Second World War," 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II Commemorative Conference, Valley Forge Military Academy & College, Wayne, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1995.

Paper, "Patton, Eisenhower, and the Tank Corps in WWI," Western Front Association/Great War Society annual meeting, Wheaton, Illinois, September 18, 1994.

Panel chair, "The Military and Minorities," Society for Military History annual meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, April 9, 1994.

Paper, "Patton, Eisenhower and the Development of Mechanization," presented at the "Cantigny at 75: A Perspective" conference, Cantigny/1st InfantryDivision Museum, Wheaton, Illinois, May 1993.

Paper, "Black Tankers in the ETO," Conference of Army Historians, Washington, D.C., June 11, 1992.

Keynote address, "African American Tankers in 1942: Preparing to Fight on Two Fronts," 50th Anniversary of WWII (1942) conference, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, June 4, 1992.

Panel chair, "18th Century Joint and Combined Operations," Society for Military History annual meeting, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 10, 1992.

Paper, "Recipe for Failure: Major General Edward M. Almond and Preparation of the 92d Infantry Division (Negro) for Combat in World War II," Society for Military History annual meeting, Durham, North Carolina, March 22, 1991.

Paper, "'Waging Peace'?: Eisenhower and Indochina Intervention, 1954," Northern Great Plains Historical Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 4, 1990.

Invited Lectures

Numerous presentations on military history, leadership, writing for publication, and U.S. diplomacy for the New York Military Affairs Symposium at the City University of New York Graduate School, Columbia University, Siena College, the United States Military Academy, Santa Rosa Community College, the University of San Francisco, and Valley Forge Military Academy & College.

Academic Administration

Member, curriculum review committee, Military History Division, Department of History, USMA (1989).

Director and Deputy Director, USMA-ROTC Military History Fellowship, USMA (1989–1990). The Fellowship is a highly acclaimed, four-week, postgraduate program conducted annually for history professors who teach the Army ROTC military history requirement at colleges and universities nationwide.

Course Director, HI351, Advanced History of the Military Art, the first semester of a two-semester honors survey course in modern military history, USMA (1990).

Honors 

Honors in Business, McKendree College, 1981.

Phi Kappa Phi Academic Achievement Award, USMA, 1988–89.

Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of History, USMA, 1990–91.

Moncado Prize, Society for Military History, 1993 (for "Recipe for Failure" published in the Journal of Military History, July 1992).

Gaspar Roca Award for Tactical Officer Excellence, Valley Forge Military Academy & College, 1996–97.

Professional & Service Affiliations

Society for Military History

Military Order of the Purple Heart (Life Member)

Combat Infantrymen's Association (Life Member)

Disabled American Veterans (Life Member)

Veterans of Foreign Wars (Life Member)

Vietnam Veterans of America (Life Member)

Americal Division Veterans' Association (Life Member)

Hill 4-11 Association (Life Member)

Knight of the Order of Saint George (Armor Branch), Silver Medallion _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________