"The Evolution of Military Occupations from Antiquity into the Future": Badger Talk in Amery, WI

Name: "The Evolution of Military Occupations from Antiquity into the Future": Badger Talk in Amery, WI
Start: 2026-05-08T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 104 Maple St W, Amery, WI 54001-1049, United States

Schedule

Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

104 Maple St W, Amery, WI 54001-1049, United States | Amery, WI

This is a free, in-person talk hosted on May 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM CST by Amery Area Public Library in Amery, WI. No registration necessary for this event. This talk will not be held virtually.
After millenia in which warfare was an almost exclusively male domain predominated by armed combatants, industrialization increased the scale, lethality, and complexity of war in unprecedented ways. Professor John Hall, military historian at the University of Wisconsin, will trace the evolution of these changes, including the dramatic expansion of non-combat roles in the military. Taking a broad view of military history, this talk will shed new light on contentious issues such as the role of women in combat and the future of armed conflict.
John W. Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at UW–Madison. He holds a B.S. in History from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He specializes in American military history with particular emphasis on early and Native American warfare. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare, including “An Irregular Reconsideration of George Washington and the American Military Tradition,” Journal of Military History (July 2014), which won an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Prize. He is a past president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.