UC Historian Joins West Point's Bicentennial

George F. Hofmann, adjunct associate professor of history for the University of Cincinnati College of Evening and Continuing Education, was selected from a national search of academics to present a paper as part of the United States Military Academy's bicentennial celebration. Hofmann will join a panel invited by the West Point Department of History to present a paper on Major General Frank Parker. The event takes place in West Point, N.Y. March 7-9.

Hofmann says Parker graduated from West Point in 1894 and was an instructor from 1900-1903. From 1916-1917, he was head of the American military mission in France and towards the end of the war commanded the famous 1st Division. After the war, Hofmann says Parker was active in promoting the use of tactical air power with mechanized forces, a doctrine the Americans used in WWII and especially in the Persian Gulf War.

Hofmann's paper is titled, "Major General Frank Parker, Theorist and Reformer."