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![A students stands with a Zimbabwean man holding two certificates](/media/content-assets/images/academic-departments/history/CadetZimbabwe-1-300x300.jpg)
It’s not unusual for a highly motivated cadet to have a passion for research—or for a cadet to be willing to travel to do that research. But a passion so strong that it involves 44 hours on an airplane? Now that’s unusual.
![A portrait of Lt. Col. John Hall.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2017-18/John-Hall[1]-1-400x266.jpg)
Lt. Col. John W. Hall, an early American historian who currently serves as historian for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in Gillis Theater in Marshall Hall.
![Dr. Klaus Schmider answers a question during his class on European land warfare in Scott Shipp Hall.](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/KlausSchmider2018KN42-1-400x266.jpg)
Col. Geoff Jensen is teaching this fall at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, while Dr. Klaus Schmider, a member of the Sandhurst faculty, is teaching at VMI.
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A summer research project by Andrew Kelly '17 explores the role of Walt Disney Studios in creating World War II propaganda.
![Rob Havers holding Vol. 7 of the Marshall papers](/media/content-assets/images/news/2016-17/Rob-Havers-and-Vol.-7.jpg)
On June 23, the George C. Marshall Foundation celebrated an accomplishment nearly four decades in the making: the publication of the seventh and final volume of "The Papers of George Catlett Marshall."