Recent Scholarship
Military
Birtle, Andrew J., “provn, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal,” Journal of Military History, 72 (Oct. 2008), 1213–47.
Buecker, Thomas R., “The Fort Robinson War Dog Reception and Training Center, 1942–1946,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 115–40.
Burris, Val, “From Vietnam to Iraq: Continuity and Change in Between-Group Differences in Support for Military Action,” Social Problems, 55 (Nov. 2008), 443–79.
Cruse, J. Brett, “The Battle of Round Timber Creek and the Use of Experimental Carbines during the Red River War of 1874,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 51–83.
David, William C., “Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (Jan. 2009), 19–23.
Deitchman, Seymour J., “The ‘Electronic Battlefield’ in the Vietnam War,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 869–87.
Flint, James, “A Chaplain’s Diary: Reverend Victor Laketek, O.S.B., 1942–1946,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 853–67.
Frederick, Julia, “In Defense of Crown and Colony: Luis de Unzaga and Spanish Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 49 (Fall 2008), 389–422.
Geiger, Mark W., “Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Feb. 2009), 49–82.
Perras, Galen Roger, and Katrina E. Kellner, “‘A Perfectly Logical and Sensible Thing’: Billy Mitchell Advocates a Canadian-American Aerial Alliance against Japan,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 785–823.
Rafael de la Cova, Antonio, “The Kentucky Regiment That Invaded Cuba in 1850,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 105 (Autumn 2007), 571–615.
Renard, Paul, “With the XXV Corps along the Rio Grande in 1865: Two usct Officers in Postwar Texas,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 29–50.
Stentiford, Barry M., “The Meaning of a Name: The Rise of the National Guard and the End of a Town Militia,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 727–54.
Wolters, Timothy S., “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” Journal of Military History, 72 (July 2008), 755–83.
Conner, Robin S., “Gendered Garrisons: Masculinity, Femininity, and Class Identity in the Post–Civil War Western Army, 1865–1898” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310247.
Dockery, Jared, “‘Quick on His Feet, and Even Quicker in His Brain’: Lightning Joe Collins at War” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317807.
Faughnan, Michael J., “You’re in the Army Now: The Students’ Army Training Corps at Selected Virginia Universities in 1918” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3308108.
Hampton, Isaac W., II, “The Journey of African American Officers through the Vietnam Era” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3311737.
Schwartz, Rebecca Press, “The Making of the History of the Atomic Bomb: Henry DeWolf Smyth and the Historiography of the Manhattan Project” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3312809.
Urayama, Kaori, “Missile Defense, U.S.-Japan Alliance, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3314085.
Waterman, Adam John, “The Price of the Purchase: Black Hawk’s War and the Colonization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3310577.
Whitt, Jacqueline Earline, “Conflict and Compromise: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304383.
Zwald, Zachary John, “Solving an Imaginary Problem: Why Should Determines Can on U.S. National Missile Defense” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306407.
Allardice, Bruce S., and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. viii, 336 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2475-9.)
Bobrick, Benson, Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. 416 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-7432-9025-8.)
Bonk, David, Trenton and Princeton, 1776–77: Washington Crosses the Delaware. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2009. 96 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-84603-350-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Cimbala, Stephen J., Shield of Dreams: Missile Defense and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Strategy. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2008. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 978-1-59114-116-7. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-1-59114-117-4.)
Coddington, Ronald S., Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxiv, 288 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9019-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Craft, Stephen G., Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xviii, 313 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3299-3.)
Davis, William C., and James I. Robertson Jr., eds., Virginia at War, 1863. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xiv, 218 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2510-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Durham, Walter T., Nashville: The Occupied City, 1862–1863. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 307 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-633-9.)
Durham, Walter T., Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, 1863–1865. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxvi, 327 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-57233-634-6.)
Gero, Anthony F., Black Soldiers of New York State: A Proud Legacy. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. xiv, 174 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2615-0. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-1-4384-2616-7.)
Kan, Paul Rexton, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-1-59797-256-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-59797-257-4.)
Lassman, Thomas C., Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: The Role of In-House Research and Development, 1945–2000. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2008. xii, 153 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-16-079418-6.)
McKenney, Tom C., Jack Hinson’s One-Man War. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 400 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58980-640-5.)
Neville, Leigh, Special Operations Forces in Iraq. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2008. 64 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-357-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Rafuse, Ethan S., Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xviii, 263 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3970-8.)
Regis, Margaret, When Our Mothers Went to War: An Illustrated History of Women in World War II. (Bellingham: NavPublishing, 2008. 175 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-879932-05-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Ross-Nazzal, James, The U.S. Veto and the Polemics of the Question of Palestine in the United Nations Security Council, 1972–2007. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. vi, 192 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5062-2.)
Ryan, Maureen, The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $98.00, isbn 978-1-55849-685-9. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-686-6.)
Sussna, Stephen, Defeat and Triumph: The Story of a Controversial Allied Invasion and French Rebirth. (Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2008. 719 pp. Cloth, $38.99, isbn 978-1-4257-6586-6. Paper, $28.99, isbn 978-1-4257-6555-2.)
Thomàs, Joan Maria, Roosevelt and Franco during the Second World War: From the Spanish Civil War to Pearl Harbor. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 272 pp. $84.95, isbn 978-0-230-60450-6.)
Tucker, Todd, Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History. (New York: Free Press, 2009. x, 277 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-4433-3.)
Yardley, Laura E., Generations of Service. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2008. iv, 47 pp. Paper.)
Andrews, Martha Shipman, ed., The Whole Damned World: New Mexico Aggies at War, 1941–1954; World War II Correspondence of Dean Daniel B. Jett. (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2009. xii, 371 pp. Cloth, $45.95, isbn 978-1-890689-51-3. Paper, $35.95, isbn 978-1-890689-38-4.)
Figg, Royall W., Where Men Only Dare to Go, Or the Story of a Boy Company, C.S.A. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xxiv, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3378-1.) Originally published in 1885.
Kacandes, Irene, Daddy’s War: Greek American Stories. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 396 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-1933-5.)
Lea, Tom, The Two Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea’s World War II, ed. Brendan M. Greeley Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xx, 227 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60344-008-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Wright, Catherine M., ed., Lee’s Last Casualty: The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxx, 231 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57233-630-8.)
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