Ann Scott, Vice Regent for Missouri of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association Board.
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association was the first national historic preservation organization and is the oldest women's patriotic society in the United States. Its pioneering efforts in the field of preservation set an important precedent and have served as a model for many.
2023
Dr. Kevin Vance is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Liberty at Benedictine College.
Dr. Vance earned his BA in Government from Claremont McKenna College and his Ph.D. in Constitutional Studies and Political Theory from the University of Notre Dame.
Most recently he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Political Science and the Lyceum Program, and prior to that a Forbes Postdoctoral Research Associate in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Craig Bruce Smith is an associate professor of military history at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He authored American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era and co-authored George Washington’s Lessons in Ethical Leadership.
Smith earned his PhD in American history from Brandeis University. Previously, he was an assistant professor of history and the director of the history program at William Woods University, and he has taught at additional colleges, including Tufts University.
He specializes in American Revolutionary and early American history, with a specific focus on honor, ethics, war, the founders, transnational ideas, and national identity. In addition, he has broader interests in colonial America, the early republic, leadership, the Atlantic world, and early American cultural, intellectual, and political history.
James B. Martin, Ph.D.
Dean of Academics
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Dr. Martin spends time researching and writing in two different areas of academic endeavor. As an historian, he is focused largely on the 19th Century and the study of irregular warfare in the Civil War and the American Indian Wars. As an adult educator, he is focused on the administration of adult and accelerated education programs to include faculty development, curriculum development, and academic assessment. In recent years he has spent considerable time working with foreign militaries to foster improvement in the professional military education. His engagements include militaries from Italy, Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Rwanda, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Brunei. He works with the African Military Education Program (AMEP) and Partnership for Peace (PfP) in creating and presenting professional military education opportunities for a variety of countries.
Dr. Martin’s latest books are The Third War: Irregular Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865 and African American War Heroes. He has also written numerous book chapters on adult education and articles in both the fields of History and Adult Education
Keil Hileman
2008 Alumni Classroom Fellow De Soto, Kansas
Bio/Overview: Hileman currently teaches High School Archeology and Artifacts and Museum Connections to 6th, 7th and 8th graders at Monticello Trails Middle School in Shawnee, Kansas. He has taught at the middle and secondary level for 18 years in the De Soto Unified School District. His classroom museum contains over 20,000 teaching artifacts. You are invited to tour the Classroom Museum. Contact Mr. Hileman at keilh@usd232.org. Hileman also teaches a “Hands On” Archeology class at Johnson County Community College, a “Classroom Museum” Course for teachers at Mid America Nazarene College and a Graduate/Undergraduate “Artifact Supported” History course at U.M.K.C. Educational Values/Philosophy: Hileman’s classroom credo is “ExploreYour World, Empower Yourself and Those Around You, Excel In Everything You Do.” Achievements: Hileman was named Kansas Teacher of the Year in 2004 and one of four finalists for the 2004 National Teacher of the Year. In addition, he was selected as a NEA Horace Mann Award winner. He was most recently inducted into the Midwest Education Hall of Fame and honored by Dolly Parton as the 2011 National Chasing Rainbows Award Winner. In recent years he was honored by the Daughters of The American Revolution, the 2007 National Outstanding Teacher of American History. His work was also featured for a “Window on Great Teaching” at NBC’s 2011 Education Nation Summit. Leadership Experience: Hileman has a passion for presenting to, evaluating and working with Teaching American History grants all over our nation. Affiliations: National Teacher of the Year program, Kansas Exemplary Educators Network, U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grants Program Education: Hileman holds a bachelors and masters in Middle and Secondary Social Studies from the University of Kansas. Areas of Interest/Expertise: History teaching Resources and instruction
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