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Cadets in Strategic Landpower
8. U.S. Army Cadet Command scholarship application and
award data for high school seniors graduating in the academic year
2013.
9. Data for 2013 calculated by author based on “Data: SAT
(Scholastic Aptitude Test) Program Participation and Performance
Statistics,” College Board website, http://research.collegeboard.org/
programs/sat/data.
10. Complete Army ROTC scholarship data for the 2013-2014
academic year were not available. The estimate of STEM scholarships as 20% or less of the total is based on comparing the fall

2013 STEM scholarships to all ROTC scholarships for the 2012 to
2013 academic year—in which about two thousand ROTC scholarships worth about $41 million were awarded. As the total amount
for ROTC scholarships is expected to decline due to shrinking
budgets, the percentage attributable to STEM scholarships could
be slightly higher. See University of North Georgia website’s “Army
ROTC Scholarships FAQs,” http://ung.edu/military-college/scholarships-and-grants/army-rotc-scholarship-faqs.php.

MR We Recommend

The American
Revolution:

A Historical Guidebook
Frances H. Kennedy, editor, Oxford
University Press, New York, 2014

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n 1996, Congress commissioned the National Park Service to compile
a list of sites and landmarks connected with the American Revolution
that it deemed vital to preserve for future generations. Some of
these sites are well known–such as Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, and Fort
Ticonderoga–and in no danger of being lost; others less so–such as Blackstock’s Plantation in South Carolina or
Bryan’s Station in Kentucky–and more vulnerable. But all are central to the story of our nation’s fight for independence. From battlefields to encampments, meeting houses to museums, these places offer us a chance to rediscover
the remarkable men and women who founded this nation and to recognize the relevance not just of what they did
but also of where they did it.
Edited by Frances H. Kennedy, The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook takes readers to nearly 150
of these sites, providing an overview of the Revolution through an exploration of the places where American
independence was articulated, fought for, and eventually secured. Beginning with the Boston Common, first
occupied by British troops in 1768, and closing with Fraunces Tavern in New York, where George Washington
bid farewell to his officers on December 4, 1783, Kennedy takes readers on a tour of the most significant places of
Revolutionary history.  From the publisher.
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