Reenacting the Pamphlet War in an Age of Turmoil

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Richard Johnston
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Living Culture ◽  
Us Air Force ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status

Published in 1790, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France triggered a pamphlet war whose major players included Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and the artist James Gillray. The debate that ensued about the French Revolution, which Percy Shelley called “the master theme of the epoch in which we live,” was fundamentally a debate between past and present, between tradition and the needs of a living culture, and between the status quo and innovation. This essay describes an attempt by the author to reenact the Pamphlet War at the US Air Force Academy to help cadets negotiate these tensions at their institution and, in doing so, participate in the work of Romanticism. The essay also suggests ways Romanticists could harness the Pamphlet War to engage political and cultural debates in our own age of upheaval and turmoil. Finally, it offers the Pamphlet War as a vehicle for debating the state of the field and the work of the Romantic classroom itself.

Interests Aligned but Not Integrated

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-150
Author(s):  
Howard G. Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
Us Air Force ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter explores the inception of the USAF's two educational institutions: the Air University (AU), and the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). The chapter shows that the AU, building on the interwar experience of the ACTS (Air Corps Tactical School), was able as a graduate school to go beyond expectations by becoming a fertile hub for professional learning. Conversely USAFA by mirroring Army and Navy institutions, established an undergraduate school with a solid curriculum, if not innovative in its approach. Tied to the rise of an independent air force service, the establishment of AU and USAFA sponsored by important military figures such as Billy Mitchell and Dwight Eisenhower heralded the rise of airpower theory in the Cold War era.

Do Capstone Students Really Understand the Needs of the Customer?: Observations on Students’ Blind Spots Left by Early Program Curriculum

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Goodson ◽  
Carl Sorensen ◽  
Michael Anderson ◽  
Christopher Mattson
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Us Air Force ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract Student capstone teams have varying degrees of success in meeting the expectations of their project sponsors. Keeping sponsors happy is important to these programs in order to ensure continued support from these industry representatives, so finding ways to improve project outcomes is critical. In order to find blind spots that students may have been left with after their first 6–7 weeks of instruction, we conducted structured interviews with students in capstone programs at Brigham Young University and the US Air Force Academy. These interviews were then transcribed, coded, and analyzed for themes that may have been well understood or misunderstood by students. We found that a significant number of students had not understood concepts such as a design being more than a prototype, that sponsors have expectations for the tradeoffs between product cost and performance, or that they need to be thinking about how their designs might be deployed. It was also interesting to note that most students also reported feeling confident in their understanding despite their apparent lack thereof, indicating that these could represent major blind spots for students. We propose that developing methods for teaching these principles early on will help students see more clearly what their end goals need to be, and thus help them be more successful in delivering desirable designs.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Laslie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Us Air Force ◽  
The Us

The Kuters collectively wrote hundreds of letters during their life together. Beyond their letters to each other, they routinely wrote long missives to their families keeping them appraised of current goings-on. These letters began during Larry’s time in the Presidio and ran through his time as commander of NORAD and beyond. Beyond the letters, there were the scrapbooks, photographs, and numerous other materials that Ethel and Larry kept before donating the entirety of the collection to the Special Collections Branch of the US Air Force Academy library. Amassed together, the collection constitutes an almost daily entry of their activities from high school through retirement....

“I Wish All the Ladies Were Holes in the Road”: The US Air Force Academy and the Gendered Continuum of Violence

Signs ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Bayard de Volo ◽  
Lynn K. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Air Force Academy ◽  
The Road ◽  
Us Air Force ◽  
The Us
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