A Monumental Task: The Creation and Legacy of West Point’s Most Iconic Memorial.

A Presentation by Jennifer Voigtschild

Thursday, April 17, 7 pm, at the Library

Event Four of a year-long series to mark the publication of the book Flesh and Stone.

Jennifer Voigtschild, Command Historian of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY will discuss the initial idea, coordination, design, and engineering feats that enabled West Point’s Battle Monument to grace historic Trophy Point. Additionally, she will delve into some of how Battle Monument has taken on different meanings and uses in the over 130 years of its existence as it towers over West Point and inspires the cadets who will go on to serve the nation as commissioned leaders of character.

Jennifer Voigtschild graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 1993 as an American History major with academic honors. She was commissioned into the Adjutant General’s Corps and was stationed in Germany, Fort Jackson, Fort Meade, West Point, Fort Hood, and the Pentagon throughout her twenty-year Army career, commanding a station of the Defense Courier Service and the Army Element of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Defense Attaché System. Jenn earned a Master’s Degree in American History from Rutgers University with a follow-on assignment teaching American History to cadets at the Academy. She deployed to Bosnia twice in the 1990s and Iraq in 2010 before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2013. She currently serves as the USMA Command Historian, a Department of the Army Civilian position on the Superintendent’s special staff.