Earl H. Tilford, Ph.D.

The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College

ABOUT

RESEARCH

FELLOWS & STAFF

DAVID J. AYERS, PH.D.

JASON R. EDWARDS, PH.D.

MARVIN J. FOLKERTSMA, PH.D.

JEFFREY M. HERBENER, PH.D.

STEVEN L. JONES, PH.D.

PAUL C. KEMENY, PH.D.

PAUL G. KENGOR, PH.D.

DURWOOD B. RAY, PH.D.

CORY L. SHRECKENGOST

GARY S. SMITH, PH.D.

JOHN A. SPARKS, J.D.

E. WARREN THROCKMORTON, PH.D.

EARL H. TILFORD, PH.D.

KATHRYN A. VAN TIL

L. JOHN VAN TIL, PH.D.

EVENTS

06/15/2010 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Fall and the Founding"
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04/15/2010 : CVV Conference: The Progressive Surge and Conservative Crackup?
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04/07/2010 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Dr. Jeffrey M. Herbener
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03/30/2010 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: By Dr. L. John Van Til
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03/03/2010 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
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02/10/2010 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Dr. Shawn Ritenour
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02/03/2010 : Fourth Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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12/08/2009 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: By Dr. John A. Sparks
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11/09/2009 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Thomas O'Boyle & Dr. Paul Kengor
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10/26/2009 : V&V Executive Director to speak at Eureka College
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10/14/2009 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Glen Meakem
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09/28/2009 : "The Politics of Laura Ingalls Wilder"
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09/23/2009 : Freedom Readers Lecture Series: By Matt Kibbe ’85
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09/22/2009 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “The Founders, the Bible and Political Discourse”
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06/09/2009 : American Founders Luncheon Series: "Abraham Lincoln and the Founders"
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04/16/2009 : CVV Conference: Faith, Freedom and Higher Education
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04/15/2009 : Freedom Readers Dessert: by Ben Stafford
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04/14/2009 : Dr. Bob Mancabelli Lecture: “Tablet PCs: Gateway to Change”
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03/31/2009 : Charles Wiley Lecture: "Modern Youth in a Time of Economic Crisis"
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03/17/2009 : Freedom Readers Dessert: "The Challenge of Affluence"
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03/10/2009 : American Founders Luncheon Series: Let Their First Word be “Washington” -- The Founders and Public Education
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02/18/2009 : Freedom Readers Dessert: "Rising Food Prices: Who is to Blame?"
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02/12/2009 : Bicentennial Lectures Honor Lincoln's Birth
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02/05/2009 : Third Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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01/27/2009 : Freedom Readers Dessert: "Free Markets and Funding the Arts"
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12/11/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “Give me Liberty” -- Patrick Henry and Religious Freedom in America
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09/23/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders and the Presidents: from July 1776 to November 2008"
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06/10/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “Gun Control, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Second Amendment”
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04/10/2008 : CVV Conference: Church & State 2008
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04/02/2008 : Charles Wiley Lecture: "Principles for Developing a Sound American Foreign Policy"
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03/18/2008 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "Hamilton and the Greenback"
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02/12/2008 : Second Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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12/18/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Significance of the Declaration"
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11/02/2007 : Heritage Foundation Lecture by Paul Kengor: "The Judge: Ronald Reagan's Top Hand"
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10/24/2007 : Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Lecture by Thomas J. Usher: "Engineering for Wealth Creation"
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10/15/2007 : Steve Mosher Lecture: "China's One-Child Policy"
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10/10/2007 : Lisa Thompson and Patricia Green Lecture
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10/08/2007 : Pew Memorial Lecture by Tom Ridge: “Security and the Future”
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09/11/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "James Madison and the Temptation of Terror"
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06/19/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders Abroad"
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04/12/2007 : CVV Conference: The De-Christianization of Europe
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03/20/2007 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: "The Founders, the Ten Commandments, and the Supreme Court"
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02/23/2007 : The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises
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02/22/2007 : First Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
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02/14/2007 : Michael Kazin Lecture: “The Gospel of William Jennings Bryan”
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12/05/2006 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “The Maligned Faith of Thomas Jefferson”
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11/03/2006 : 2006 Austrian Student Scholars Conference
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10/04/2006 : Wilfred McClay Lecture
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09/19/2006 : The American Founders Luncheon Series: “George Washington as the Model of American Statesmanship”
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04/05/2006 : CVV Conference: Mr. Jefferson Goes to the Middle East
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02/27/2006 : Global Perspectives Seminar
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02/22/2006 : Medicine and Theology: From Embryos to the Posthuman
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11/04/2005 : 2005 Austrian Student Scholars Conference
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07/20/2005 : Paul Kengor Lecture and Booksigning at the Ronald Reagan Library
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04/04/2005 : CVV Inaugural Conference: The Road From Poverty to Freedom
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Earl H. Tilford, Ph.D.

Working Group Coordinator, Middle East & Terrorism
Fellow, Middle East & Terrorism

Dr. Earl Tilford
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Dr. Earl Tilford is a professor of history at Grove City College. He also is an Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and holds a White House appointment to the U.S. Army War College’s Board of Visitors. Dr. Tilford also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Vietnam magazine.

He is the author of three books on the Vietnam War, including A History of U.S. Air Force Search and Rescue Operations in Southeast Asia, 1961-1975 (Center for Air Force History, 1981) which was nominated for the Furniss Award “Best First Book in Military History” Award. He also published Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam, and Why (Air University Press, 1991); and Crosswinds: The Air Force’s Setup in Vietnam (Texas A&M University Press 1993). Additionally, with historian William P. Head, he co-edited Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on the Persian Gulf War (Praeger, 1996). He has published more than fifty articles in refereed journals as well as numerous book reviews.

Prior to coming to Grove City College in 2001, Tilford served as Director of Research at the Strategic Studies Institute, the U.S. Army’s strategic research institute charged with looking twenty-five years into the future to approximate the strategic paradigm and then recommending force structures, strategies and weapons systems that might best-fit future national security requirements. From 1969 to 1990, he served as an Air Force intelligence officer with tours in Vietnam and at Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, where he was a nuclear targeting specialist. During his Air Force career, Tilford also served on the faculties at the Air Force Academy and the Air Command and Staff College and was editor of the Air University Review, the professional journal of the Air Force. He was voted Air University “1991 Professor of the Year” and in 1992, the Air Force Association gave him the “General Hoyt Vandenberg Award” as Air Force Educator of the Year.

At Grove City College, Dr. Tilford teaches courses in the Humanities core, US Military History, Russian History, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War and US National Security. He frequently appears on the History Channel and is a frequent commentator on national security matters on National Public Radio as well as a variety of radio talk shows.

Earl H. Tilford, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Grove City College | Box 3043 | Grove City, PA 16127
Tel: 724.458.3825 | Email: ehtilford@gcc.edu