As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge.
Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education.
For this week‘s edition (#1289), Bob has selected Jon Mikolashek’s military history segment. A professor of history at American Public University, Dr. Mikolashek focused on the potentially false presentation of historical narratives.
Jon Mikolashek is currently an Associate Professor of History at the United States Army Command and General Staff College and American Military University. Previously, he worked as a historian for the United States Army Center of Military History at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C. in the Contemporary Studies Branch and as a military/political analyst for the Terrorism Research Center in Arlington, Virginia. In addition, he has taught at Florida State University, James Madison University, and community colleges.
His book, General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome was released in March 2013. He also released Operation ENDURING FREEDOM: 2002-2005 in 2013. Along with the two books, he is the author of a chapter in Tip of the Spear: Small Unit Actions in Iraq, and numerous articles on World War II and counterinsurgency. Aside from the project on 5/2 SBCT, he is also working on a book on the Battle of Wanat, a significant battle that took place in July 2008.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Longwood College; a Masters of Arts in United States History from James Madison University and his Ph.D. from Florida State University where he studied modern United States history and the Islamic World. He married Colleen Ganley in 2005, who herself graduated from Longwood University in 2003. They have two sons, Alexander, 5 and Jacob, 2.
