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New Director of The Eisenhower
Center Announced
Collaborative partnership between UNO and National D-Day
Museum
advances vision of Stephen Ambrose
NEW ORLEANS: One of the world’s leading military
historians and educators has been appointed as Director
of The Eisenhower Center, an interdisciplinary center
of excellence of the University of New Orleans and partner
institution of The National D-Day Museum. Dr. Allan
R. Millett assumes the leadership of the Center which
was originally founded by Dr. Stephen Ambrose as The
Eisenhower Center for Leadership Studies.
During Ambrose’s founding
years as Director, he recorded several thousand oral
histories of World War II veterans and established both
The Eisenhower Center and The National D-Day Museum
as internationally renowned centers for research, education,
conferences, publications and films on the WWII years.
Dr. Ambrose’s work was continued by his first
successor, Dr. Douglas Brinkley.
Dr. Gordon H. “Nick”
Mueller, President and CEO of The National D-Day Museum,
noted “With this great launching platform from
the Ambrose years, we are proud to announce the beginning
of a new era of collaboration and partnership in education
and research between UNO and The National D-Day Museum.
This new chapter will be written by the exceptional
new Director of Te Eisenhower Center, Dr. Millett, who
was a great friend of Steve Ambrose and is highly regarded
throughout the world for his scholarship and leadership.”
Under Dr. Millett’s direction,
the Center will advance Ambrose’s original vision:
the study of the interaction between the political culture
of the United States in the 20th Century and the causes,
conduct and consequences of U.S. defense policy and
the use of force as an instrument of policy. This period
coincides with the life and public career of General/President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and includes three major historical
epochs: the extension of U.S. power beyond North America
(1898-1916), the collapse of European domination and
the two world wars (1914-1945), and the U.S.-U.S.S.R.
rivalry of the Cold War and the process of global decolonization.
The work of the Center also will reflect the Eisenhower
legacy of public service, civic leadership and public
education.
Dr. Millett was previously the
Major General Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor of Military
History at The Ohio State University where he was a
veteran of thirty-seven years as a faculty member and
Mershon Center associate. In 2005, he became a professor
emeritus at Ohio State, where he directed sixty-two
doctoral dissertations to completion, a national record
in his specialty.
Dr. Millett is a widely recognized
authority on the history of American military policy
and twentieth century wars and military institutions.
He is author of many books including Semper Fidelis:
The History of the United States Marine Corps; The
Politics of Intervention: The Military Occupation of
Cuba, 1906-1909; The General: Robert L. Bullard
and Officership in the United States Army; and In
Many a Strife: General Gerald C. Thomas and the U.S.
Marine Corps. He is the co-author of For the
Common Defense and A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second
World War.
In the past decade, Millett also
has become a specialist of international stature on
the history of the Korean War. He began his work on
the war as a Fulbright Distinguished Professor, Korean
National Defense University, in 1991, and a Fellow of
the Korea Foundation, 1996. In this area of scholarship,
Millett has written Their War for Korea (2000)
and A House Burning: The War for Korea (2005).
Four of his books are on the required reading list for
officers of the U.S. Armed Services and he has contributed
original essays to fifteen books on the Korean War,
World War II, American historiography, foreign and defense
policy and military history. Dr. Millett also has written
more than thirty articles for such publications as International
Security, The Americas, Armed Forces and
Society, Strategic Review, Journal of
Strategic Studies, and Military History Quarterly.
He has lectured at the academies
and war colleges of all the U.S. armed forces, as well
as the Japanese National Institute of Defense Studies,
the German Military History Institute, the Korean Military
Academy, the National War College and the Imperial College
of Defense Studies (U.K.) . Dr. Millett is a colonel
in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. His military experience
included twelve years of reserve service in infantry
units, including command of an infantry battalion, for
which he was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1989.
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