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to the new Eisenhower Foundation Web Site! Our goal for the site is to
bring to life the contributions that Dwight D. Eisenhower has made to
our country and the world. We hope you enjoy your stay and encourage you
come back as more interesting items will be added on a regular basis.
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This
section will always have the latest news about the Eisenhower Foundation
and its activities as well as general information about Dwight D. Eisenhower
happenings. Check out our News Archive
to read aging news releases. Click on the links below to learn the latest
news and events:
 Spring 2009 Travel Grant Recipients.
Fall 2008 Travel Grant Recipients.
Lois Leyda Student Internships
Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial Approved
Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady
The Eisenhower Library and St. Andrew's Students Link Up with Mount Rushmore National Memorial
WW II Honor Roll Kiosk
Reader's
Digest Foundation Education Center
Primary Sources
National
History Day Resources Available
RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS AWARDED - Spring 2009
Devan Bissonette and Brian McNeill at the Eisenhower Library
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Alessandra Bitumi, Ph.D. candidate, History of European Integration, University of Pavia, Porto San Giorgio, Italy;
“The European Union Visitors Program: Public Diplomacy in the Transatlantic Crisis of the Seventies: In Search of a European Identity ”
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Rian T. Bobal, Ph.D. candidate, History, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas;
“The American Crusades: Religion, Race, and Relations with the Levant in Eisenhower’s America”
- Michael J. Doidge, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Southern Mississippi;
“An Army Worth Fighting For: Doctrinal, Strategic, and Bureaucratic Transformation in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1963”
- Dr. Ronald B. Frankum, Jr., Department of History, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania; “The Year of the Rat: Ngo Dinh Diem and the End of the Special Relationship with the United States, 1959-1961”
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Jonathan R. Hunt, Ph.D. candidate, History, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas;
“Destroyer of Worlds: The Nuclear Revolution and the Global Environment”
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Dr. Robert S. Jordan, visiting fellow, Eisenhower Institute;
“Career Biography of General Andrew Goodpaster”
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Maurice M. Labelle, Jr., Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Akron, Ohio;
“Walking the Arab Street: Arab Anti-Americanism and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, 1957-69”
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Brian E. McNeil, graduate student, University of Texas at Austin, Texas;
“A New Look for Ghana: Africa, the United States, and the Politics of Third World Nationalism”
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Andrea K. O’Brien, graduate student, George Washington University, Washington D.C.;
“Democracy’s Best Ambassadors: Social and Cultural Encounters Between Americans and Germans in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949”
- Dr. Sarah B. Snyder, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;
“The Rise of Human Rights in United States Foreign Relations”
- Jaclyn E. Woolf, instructor, Midland College, Midland, Texas;
“Interests, Constraints, and Judicial Selection: A Rational Approach to Presidential Selection of Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court Nomine
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RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS AWARDED - Fall 2008
Rebecca Friedman and Brian Plummer at the Eisenhower Library
- Devan L. Bissonette, Ph.D., candidate, Department of History, The State University of New York at Binghampton, Binghampton, New York; resident of Spencerport, New York;
“The Time of Our Life: Visuality, Textuality, and the Art of Newsmaking, 1957-1972”
- James R. Blackstone, Ph.D., candidate, History Department, Clare College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; visiting assistant in research, Yale University;
"The Influence of the Senate Republican Right Upon American Foreign Policy, 1950-1954"
- Dr. Feng Deng, History Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; associate professor, College of History and Culture, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, People’s Republic of China;
"Armistice Negotiations During the Korean War: A Comprehensive Study of the Chinese, Russian, and American Archival Literature"
- Rebecca R. Friedman, undergraduate student, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
"Understanding Foreign Policy Transitions: The Problem of Intelligence Transmission to the President-elect"
- Jason C. LaBau, Ph.D., candidate, History Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California;
"Phoenix Rising: Arizona and the Origins of Modern Conservative Politics"
- Ray Pence, lecturer, American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas;
"Idealism and Bureaucracy: Oveta Culp Hobby, Joseph LaRocca, and Vocational Rehabilitation in the Eisenhower Era."
- Brian K. Plummer, Ph.D., candidate, History Department, Claremont Graduate University; professor, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California;
"John Foster Dulles and the Influence of Christianity Upon the Formulation of Foreign Policy in the Eisenhower Era"
- Dr. Asaf Siniver, lecturer, International Relations, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom;
"The Quest for Peace: Abba Eban and the Search for Peace in the Middle East"
- Dr. Ginger G. Strand, independent writer, New York, New York;
"Exit Ramp Eden"
- Tao Wang, Ph.D., candidate, History Department, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; citizen of China;
"Isolating the Enemy: U.S.-China Relations, 1953-1955"
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Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial Approved
The Eisenhower Memorial received final approval for a site on September 21, 2006. Now that we know where the memorial will be located, we need to figure out what the memorial will be.
Dwight D. Eisenhower influenced the lives of millions of people and his legacy influences the world today. If you have ever driven on the interstate, talked on a cellular phone, traveled to Europe, Hawaii, or Alaska, then you have been directly influenced by Eisenhower. All aspects of Dwight D. Eisenhower's life, accomplishments, character, and views could never be detailed in a single memorial.
We need you to help us decide what is most important and most special about Eisenhower.
So, tell us what you think by filling out the eight-part survey to help us figure out what should be included in a national, permanent memorial to Ike. There is no right or wrong here — just tell us what is important or meaningful to you.
Continue to the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Memorial Survey
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Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady
 "Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady"
A lecture by
Marilyn Irvin Holt
with remarks by
Mary Jean Eisenhower,
granddaughter of Mamie Doud Eisenhower
7:00 PM, October 11 in the Visitors Center Auditorium,
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kansas.
A reception and book signing
follows the book lecture.
The Eisenhower Foundation and the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
wish to express their gratitude to
Automotive Center, Abilene, Kansas
for underwriting the lecture and reception.
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The Eisenhower Library and St. Andrew's Students Link Up with Mount Rushmore National Memorial
 Can you name the presidents enshrined on Mt. Rushmore? Do you know which modern-day presidents have actually visited this historic site? Students from Abilene, Kansas, and Custer, South Dakota, certainly do—and even more; they studied presidential quotations on the topic of freedom by these presidents.
On April 26, the combined fourth- and fifth-grade class at St. Andrew’s School joined students from Custer Elementary School via video-conferencing technology to learn more about these two “presidential” sites and to share their original writings, based on interpretations of presidential quotations.
 St. Andrew’s students, broadcasting from the Education Center of the Eisenhower Library, introduced President Eisenhower and the Eisenhower Library to fellow students situated at the Sculptor’s Studio at the Mount Rushmore site. The Custer Elementary students returned the favor by reading from Who Carved the Mountain? The Story of Mount Rushmore, a new children’s book by author Jean L.S. Patrick. Students at both sites presented their original writings, based on quotes from Mount Rushmore Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. In addition, modern presidents including Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Bush, and Clinton provided inspiration for students’ own writings. Students at the Eisenhower Library were actually able to view Mount Rushmore and the original plaster model that the artist Gutzon Borglum used to design the sculpture.
 Rhonda Schier, National Park Service Education Specialist and Park Ranger, observed that the students at Mount Rushmore were “wildly enthusiastic about the event, telling me it was ‘awesome’—a ‘blast!’ ” Students, teachers, and the principal from St. Andrew’s School, at the Eisenhower Library, were equally enthused with the program, especially with the opportunity for students to share their knowledge of these historic sites, as well as presidential wisdom, with each other, though separated by hundreds of miles.
Kim Barbieri, education specialist at the Eisenhower Library, noted that the program far exceeded her expectations. “It was an exciting afternoon and a very successful collaboration with the National Park Service. The students from Abilene and from Custer wrote outstanding essays and their presentations were very polished. The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, in conjunction with the Eisenhower Foundation, looks forward to developing even more of these valuable educational connections that so effectively bridge time and space.”
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CURRICULUM UNIT:
WORLD WAR II SPY KIT - THE GREAT NAZI INTELLIGENCE COUP
 The
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and The Eisenhower Foundation invite teachers
and students to download materials from World War II Spy Kit: The Great
Nazi Intelligence Coup. This engaging simulation/project is designed
to introduce students to primary source material by having them participate
in an exercise in historical "what might have been". Students
will engage in critical thinking and document analysis and through the
process, will learn more about Operation OVERLORD and World War II in
general. Click here to go directly to the
unit or find it under Curriculum Units
in the Education section.
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KOREAN WAR PRIMARY
SOURCES
Korean
War primary sources are now posted in the Education Section of the website!
They include 30+ photos and approximately 70 documents. Click the Primary
Sources button in the Education section.
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NATIONAL
HISTORY DAY RESOURCES AVAILABLE
 The
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library has been the site for the Kansas finals of
National History Day since 1983. The manuscript collections and
audiovisual archives at the Library contain many documents and photographs
that would be very useful to students working on historical papers,
exhibit projects, media or dramatic performances. Documents and photographs
are included for the following topics:
U-2 Spy Plane Incident
International Geophysical Year
Sputnik and the Space Race
Salk Polio Vaccine
U.S.S. NAUTILUS
World War II: D-Day, The Invasion of Normandy
1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy
Interstate Highway System
Saint Lawrence Seaway
Click
here for Resources at the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
for Class Assignments and National History Day Projects
Click here for more
information on National
History Day.
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