Message from the Director Geoffrey Wawro:
Welcome to the Military History Center at the University of North
Texas. Our goal is to build one of the premier military history
programs in the world. We are hiring great military historians,
who teach and write well. We will use this center to pull together
our own faculty and our advisory fellows -- heavyweights like Niall
Ferguson, Holger Herwig, and Jeremy Black -- and to attract speakers
and conferences like our hugely successful Alfred Hurley Military
History Seminar, which has been an annual event in North Texas for
twenty-five years. Speakers have included Michael Howard, Martin
Blumenson, Dennis Showalter, David Glantz, Carlo D'Este, Allan Millett,
and Gerhard Weinberg. At the UNT Military History Center we are
introducing a PhD. in military history. Here we study, analyze and
discuss the history and future of warfare in every era and culture.
Join us in North Texas, or right here on the web.
UNT and the Military History Center are proud to
announce the hire of Dr. Michael V. Leggiere, who is one of the
leading historians in the world of the Napoleonic Wars. Mike comes
to us from
LSU-Shreveport; his PhD in history is from Florida State University.
Mike has published two acclaimed books, Napoleon and Berlin:
The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 (2002) and
The Fall of Napoleon: the Allied Invasion of France, 1813-14 (2007).
He is presently writing volume two of the Fall of France
for Cambridge University Press, and is also writing a biography
of Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard von Bluecher and, for Yale University
Press, a new history of the Battle of Waterloo. Mike is an active
member of the Society for Military History and the German Studies
Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Consortium
on Revolutionary Europe. He is thrilled to be moving with his wife
and two children to the Dallas Metroplex to work with UNT's strong
history department and dynamic Military History Center, where he
will serve as Dr. Geoff Wawro's deputy. Mike enjoys teaching the
French Revolution, Napoleon, the Age of Nationalism, and the
military history of 18th century Europe.
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