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2025 LECTURES

Great Power Diplomacy: Past and Present

October 21, 2025
Wess Mitchell

A. Wess Mitchell is an author, historian, and former diplomat. He received a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. from the Otto Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft at Freie Universität in Berlin. From 2017 to 2019, he served in the Trump administration as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

The Political and Cultural Legacies of the Vietnam War

September 13, 2025 (4th annual conference)
Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.

The South Vietnamese Exodus

September 13, 2025 (4th annual conference)
Viet Luong

Major General (Retired) Viet Luong emigrated from Vietnam with his family to the United States in 1975 as a political refugee, upon the fall of Saigon.

The Strategic Legacies of the Vietnam War

September 12, 2025 (4th annual conference)
Bing West

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Author, The Village.

The History of the Vietnam War

September 12, 2025 (4th annual conference)
Mark Moyar

Mark Moyar joined Hillsdale College in 2021 as the William P. Harris Chair in Military History. From 2018 to 2019, he served as the Director of the Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

2024 LECTURES

Military History and the Roman Empire

AUGUST 31, 2024 (3rd Annual Conference)
Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; his focus is classics and military history.

Rome, Constantine, and the Fall of Christianity: A Myth Reconsidered

AUGUST 31, 2024 (3rd Annual Conference)
Jason M. Gehrke

Jason M. Gehrke is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College.

St. Augustine and Roman Warfare

AUGUST 31, 2024 (3rd Annual Conference)
Mattias Gassman

Mattias Gassman is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. He was previously a research fellow at the University of St. Andrews and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.

The Endurance of the East Roman Empire and Its Armies

AUGUST 30, 2024 (3rd Annual Conference)
Anthony Kaldellis

Anthony Kaldellis’ research explores the history, culture, and literature of the east Roman empire from antiquity to the fifteenth century.

2023 LECTURES

Military History for the Modern Strategist

APRIL 06, 2023
DR. MICHAEL O'HANLON

Dr. O'Hanlon is the Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy.

War and Strategy during the Middle Ages

FEBRUARY 14, 2023
DR. KELLY DEVRIES

Kelly Robert DeVries (born December 23, 1956) is an American historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.

2022 LECTURES

Military History and Grand Strategy Luncheon

NOVEMBER 29, 2022
DR. ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY

Adrian Goldsworthy is an ancient historian, lecturer, and author of more than two dozen books and numerous articles and reviews on Greek and Roman history and military history. A graduate of St. John’s College, Oxford University, he received a D.Phil. in ancient history in 1994. He previously taught at Cardiff University, King’s College London, and the University of Notre Dame.

The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins ofthe Second World War

September 10, 2022
Ian Johnson

"It's especially my pleasure to be here, helping to celebrate Hillsdale's New Center for Military History and Grand Strategy."
- Ian Johnson

Stalin's Western Strategy and Its Eastern European Consequences

September 10, 2022
Sean McMeekin

"That’s why I want to conclude just by noting again how thrilled I am that Hillsdale has set up the Center for Military History and Grand Strategy, and I really look forward to many more conversations here in years to come."
- Sean McMeekin