Recent Scholarship
Military
Adler, William D., and Andrew J. Polsky, “Building the New American Nation: Economic Development, Public Goods, and the Early U.S. Army,” Political Science Quarterly, 125 (Spring 2010), 87–110.
Bahde, Thomas, “‘Our Cause Is a Common One’: Home Guards, Union Leagues, and Republican Citizenship in Illinois, 1861–1863,” Civil War History, 56 (March 2010), 66–98.
Borch, Fred L., “The Historical Role of Military Lawyers in National Security Trials,” South Texas Law Review, 50 (Summer 2009), 717–41.
Corbett, Steve, and Michael J. Davidson, “The Role of the Military in Presidential Politics,” Parameters, 39 (Winter 2009–2010), 58–72.
Crook, Jason A., “From the Civil War to the War on Terror: The Evolution and Application of the State Secrets Privilege,” Albany Law Review, 72 (no. 1, 2009), 57–77.
Dement, Rebekah, “The Phenomenon of Five Thousand Soldiers Milling around One Business Block: World War II and Tullahoma, Tennessee,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Fall 2009), 296–323.
Eloranta, Jari, and Mark Wilson, “Thwarting the ‘Merchants of Death’ Accusation: The Political Economy of Military Procurement in Industrial Democracies during the Interwar Period,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 91–106.
Fannin, John F., “The Jacksonville Mutiny of 1865,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Winter 2010), 368–96.
Feller, Daniel, “The Seminole Controversy Revisited: A New Look at Andrew Jackson’s 1818 Florida Campaign,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Winter 2010), 309–25.
Fry, Joseph A., “To Negotiate or Bomb: Congressional Prescriptions for Withdrawing U.S. Troops from Vietnam,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 517–28.
Haack, Steven C., “‘This Must Have Been a Grand Sight’: George Bent and the Battle of Platte Bridge,” Great Plains Quarterly, 30 (Winter 2010), 3–20.
Irish, Kerry, “Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines: There Must Be a Day of Reckoning,” Journal of Military History, 74 (April 2010), 439–73.
Keene, Judith, “Bodily Matters above and below Ground: The Treatment of American Remains from the Korean War,” Public Historian, 32 (Feb. 2010), 59–78.
Korotkova, S. A., “‘355’ i drugie agenty generala Dzh. Vashingtona” (‘355’ and other agents of General George Washington), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 38–44. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.
Lawrence, Mark Atwood, “Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 589–600.
McMahon, Robert J., “The Politics, and Geopolitics, of American Troop Withdrawals from Vietnam, 1968–1972,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 471–83.
Selverstone, Marc J., “It’s a Date: Kennedy and the Timetable for a Vietnam Troop Withdrawal,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 485–95.
Skaggs, David Curtis, “River Raisin Redeemed: William Henry Harrison, Oliver Hazard Perry, and the Midwestern Campaign, 1813,” Northwest Ohio History, 77 (Spring 2010), 67–84.
Sturma, Michael, “U.S. Submarine Patrol Reports during World War II: Historical Evidence and Literary Flair,” Journal of Military History, 74 (April 2010), 475–90.
Szymczak, Robert, “The Battalion That Never Was: Dr. Teofil Starzynski, the oss, and the Polish American Special Service Unit Project, 1942,” Polish American Studies, 66 (Autumn 2009), 47–72.
Tovy, Tal, “Medidat hazlaha bemilchama neged guerila: Milchemet Vietnam kemikre mivhan” (The measure of success in guerrilla warfare: The Vietnam War as a test case), Yiunim Bebitachon Leumi (Haifa), 7 (2009), 50–64. In Hebrew.
Wilson, Mark R., “‘Taking a Nickel out of the Cash Register’: Statutory Renegotiation of Military Contracts and the Politics of Profit Control in the United States during World War II,” Law & History Review, 28 (May 2010), 343–83.
Zelizer, Julian E., “Congress and the Politics of Troop Withdrawal,” Diplomatic History, 34 (June 2010), 529–41.
Carlson, Robert D., “Breach of Faith: Conscription in Confederate Georgia” (Emory University, 2009). Order No. DA3359941.
Clark, Jason Patrick, “The Many Faces of Reform: Military Progressivism in the U.S. Army, 1866–1916” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3366749.
Dudlo, Edward J., “Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598–1912” (Southern Methodist University, 2009). Order No. DA3356157.
Goler, Robert I., “The Symbol of the Veteran Amputee in American Culture” (George Mason University, 2009). Order No. DA3365598.
Lefebvre, Andrew Robert, “Forgotten by History: The Panama Canal in World War Two” (University of Calgary, Canada, 2009). Order No. DANR49613.
Mak, Stephen Seng-hua, “‘America’s Other Internment’: World War II and the Making of Modern Human Rights” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355703.
Nosco, Mary Lou, “The Last wacs: A Case Study of Women in Leadership Focusing on Women in the Last Direct Commissioning Class of the Women’s Army Corps” (Drake University, 2009). Order No. DA3361456.
Carnahan, Burrus M., Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 165 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2569-5.)
Christ, Mark K., Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xii, 321 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4087-2.)
Cubbison, Douglas R., The British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758: A Military History of the Forbes Campaign against Fort Duquesne. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 241 pp. Paper, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4739-8.)
Grathwol, Robert P., and Donita M. Moorhus, Bricks, Sand, and Marble: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947–1991. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xxiv, 672 pp. Cloth, $73.00, isbn 978-0-16-084164-4. Paper, $61.00, isbn 978-0-16-081738-0.)
Lee, Dan, Kentuckian in Blue: A Biography of Major General Lovell Harrison Rousseau. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. viii, 246 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4818-0.)
Logusz, Michael O., With Musket and Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 418 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-935149-00-2.)
Monahan, Evelyn M., and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, A Few Good Women: America’s Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (New York: Knopf, 2010. xviii, pp. $32.50, isbn 978-1-4000-4434-4.)
Powell, James S., Learning under Fire: The 112th Cavalry Regiment in World War II. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. xviii, 242 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60344-171-1.)
Salling, Stuart, Louisianians in the Western Confederacy: The Adams-Gibson Brigade in the Civil War. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 260 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-4218-8.)
Sears, David, Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2010. xiv, 395 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-306-81851-6.)
Tillman, Barrett, Whirlwind: The Air War against Japan, 1942–1945. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. xviii, 316 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4165-440-7.)
Townsend, Mary Bobbitt, Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010. xvi, 270 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1875-9.)
Trimble, William F., Hero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2010. xvi, 270 pp. $47.95, isbn 978-1-59114-879-1.)
Tucker, Phillip Thomas, Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth. (Drexel Hill, Pa.: Casemate, 2010. xvi, 404 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-1-932033-93-9.)
Wolk, Herman S., Cataclysm: General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2010. xii, 300 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-57441-281-9.)
Conway, Christopher, ed., The U.S.-Mexican War: A Binational Reader, trans. Gustavo Pellón. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010. xxxii, 208 pp. Cloth, $42.00, isbn 978-1-60384-221-1. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-60384-220-4.)
Curry, John P., Volunteers’ Camp and Field Book Containing Useful and General Information on the Art and Science of War, for the Leisure Moments of the Soldier: 1862 Edition with Notes and an Appendix, ed. William B. Sargeant and John W. Brinsfield. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xviii, 190 pp. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-88146-169-5.)
Fredriksen, John C., ed., The War of 1812 in Person: Fifteen Accounts by United States Army Regulars, Volunteers, and Militiamen. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. vi, 324 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4792-3.)
Hoyle, Joseph J., ‘Deliver Us from This Cruel War’: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle, 55th North Carolina Infantry, ed. Jeffrey M. Girvan. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 233 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4757-2.)
Marshall, Albert O., Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal; Incidents, Sketches, and Record of a Union Soldier’s Army Life, in Camp and Field, 1861–64, ed. Robert G. Schultz. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xviii, 340 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55728-917-9.)
Topping, Seymour, On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent’s Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xviii, 435 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3556-3.)
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