Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

OFF-SITE SESSION
Armed Forces Interactions with American Science and Technology: From the Revolution to the Twenty-first Century

31. Life Sciences and the Armed Forces
National Museum of American History, Carmichael Auditorium
13th and Constitution N.W., on the National Mall

Chair: Barton C. Hacker, National Museum of American History
Papers:

Smallpox in Washington’s Army: The Development of Inoculation as a Military Medical Procedure
Ann M. Becker, State University of New York at Stony Brook

The Role of the Army and Navy in American Zoological Research, 1803–60
Keir B. Sterling, Combined Arms Support Command

“ A More Successful Defensive Warfare”: The U.S. Army and the Fight against Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1900–02
Mariola Espinosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Albert B. Sabin, the U.S. Army, and the Conquest of Epidemic Disease
John M. Morra, Independent Scholar

Comment: The Audience
Directions: Take Metro Red Line from Woodley Park Station to Metro Center (4 stops). Go to lower platform and take Blue or Orange Line (toward Addison Road or New Carrollton) one stop to Federal Triangle. Exit station. At top of escalator, turn 180 degrees and walk to 12th Street. Turn right on 12th and walk half a block to Constitution. You will see the National Museum of American History across the street to your right. Cross Constitution, turn right, and walk one-half block to entrance. Carmichael Auditorium is immediately to your left after you pass through visitor screening. The guard can direct you.