Recent Scholarship
Military
Balfour, Joshua, “Confronting Entrenched Weapons Programs: A Short Story of Success from the George W. Bush Administration,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 93–108.
Black, Jeremy, “Midway and the Indian Ocean,” Naval War College Review, 62 (Autumn 2009), 131–40.
Evans, Michael, “Lethal Genes: The Urban Military Imperative and Western Strategy in the Early Twenty-first Century,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 32 (Aug. 2009), 515–52.
Farber, Hannah, “The Rise and Fall of the Province of Lygonia, 1643–1658,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Sept. 2009), 490–513.
Feaver, Peter D., “Debating American Grand Strategy after Major War,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 547–52.
Fitzgerald, Frances, “Vietnam and the United States: The Price of Intransigence,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 62–71. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Hall, Simon, “Scholarly Battles over the Vietnam War,” Historical Journal (Cambridge), 52 (Sept. 2009), 813–29.
Kang, Sunjoo, “Mugukeui 20Segi Jeonjange Daehan Gongsikwhaden Kieok” (American official memories of wars in the 20th century), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Sept. 2008), 5–39. In Korean.
Klein, Adam G., Carolyn M. Byerly, and Tony McEachern, “Counterframing Public Dissent: An Analysis of Antiwar Coverage in the U.S. Media,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (Oct. 2009), 331–50.
Kreps, Sarah, “American Grand Strategy after Iraq,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 629–45.
Lee, Rika Rihwa, “Hawai kaigenreika no Korian imin no nashonarizumu: ‘Tekisei gaikokujin’ kara ‘yûkôteki gaikokujin’ eno katari no keisei” (The claim against ‘enemy alien’ status of Koreans in wartime Hawaii: Redefining ‘Korean’ and reconstructing nationalism), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 137–54. In Japanese.
MacLeavy, Julie, and Columba Peoples, “Workfare Warfare: Neoliberalism, Active Welfare, and the New American Way of War,” Antipode, 41 (Nov. 2009), 890–915.
Mills, Nicolaus, “9/11 and the Road to Iraq,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 87–109. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Miscamble, Wilson D., “Roosevelt, Truman, and the Development of Postwar Grand Strategy,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 553–70.
Moyar, Mark, “Grand Strategy after the Vietnam War,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 591–610.
Noe, Kenneth W., “‘Alabama, We Will Fight for Thee’: The Initial Motivations of Later-Enlisting Confederates,” Alabama Review, 62 (July 2009), 163–89.
Park, Insook, “‘Vietnam Syndrome’ Gwa ‘Kirkpatrick Doctrine’” (The ‘Vietnam syndrome’ and the ‘Kirkpatrick doctrine’), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 29 (May 2009), 123–55. In Korean.
Penick, Steven, “A Test of Duty: Stearns County Volunteers in the Spanish-American War,” Minnesota History, 61 (Fall 2009), 292–305. Heavily illustrated.
Smoler, Fred, “The Surprising Success: The United States and Korea,” in Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, ed. Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, 40–51. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.)
Strong-Boag, Veronica, and Rupa Bagga, “Saving, Kidnapping, or Something of Both? Canada and the Vietnam/Cambodia Babylift, Spring 1975,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 39 (Autumn 2009), 271–89.
Stueck, William, “Reassessing U.S. Strategy in the Aftermath of the Korean War,” Orbis, 53 (Fall 2009), 571–90.
Wasmer, Robert A., “Partisan Warfare in Monroe County, Tennessee, during the Civil War: The Murder of Joseph M. Divine,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 68 (Spring 2009), 66–97.
Wilford, Marcus, “The Big Story: Our Embattled Media,” World Affairs, 172 (Fall 2009), 22–35.
Yaworsky, William, “Target Analysis of Shining Path Insurgents in Peru: An Example of U.S. Army Psychological Operations,” Journal of Strategic Studies (London), 32 (Aug. 2009), 651–66.
Zelizer, Julian E., “Détente and Domestic Politics,” Diplomatic History, 33 (Sept. 2009), 653–70.
Allsep, L. Michael, Jr., “New Forms for Dominance: How a Corporate Lawyer Created the American Military Establishment” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3331024.
Butler, Shannon Rae, “Into the Storm: American Covert Involvement in the Angolan Civil War, 1974–1975” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3331312.
Cahill, Charlotte, “Fighting the Vietnam Syndrome: The Construction of a Conservative Veterans Politics, 1966–1984” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336524.
Coe, Kevin M., “Words of War: Presidential Rationales for Military Action from World War II to Iraq” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337741.
Curatola, John M., “180 Degrees Out: The Change in U.S. Strategic Bombing Applications, 1935–1955” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3341916.
Faulkner, Richard Shawn, “The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces” (Kansas State University, 2008). Order No. DA3339318.
Gutiérrez, Edward A., “‘Sherman Was Right’: The Experience of aef Soldiers in the Great War” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338301.
Hwang, Junghyun, “Specters of the Cold War in America’s Century: The Korean War and Transnational Politics of National Imaginaries in the 1950s” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3336473.
Lawson, Sean Trevor, “Info[at]war.mil: Nonlinear Science and the Emergence of Information Age Warfare in the United States Military” (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3342871.
Smoley, John Knute, “Seizing Victory from the Jaws of Deterrence: Preservation and Public Memory of America’s Nike Air Defense Missile System” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3342049.
Desjardin, Thomas A., Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxii, 245 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-538231-0.) Originally published in 1995.
Ehlers, Robert S., Jr., Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xviii, 422 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1682-4.)
Fredriksen, John C., The B-45 Tornado: An Operational History of the First American Jet Bomber. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. viii, 264 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4278-2.)
Giangreco, D. M., Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–1947. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xxiv, 362 pp. $36.95, isbn 978-1-59114-316-1.)
Greiner, Bernd, War without Fronts: The usa in Vietnam. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 518 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-15451-1.) Originally published in German in 2007.
Hall, Richard C., Consumed by War: European Conflict in the 20th Century. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. x, 286 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2558-9.)
Humphrey, Robert E., Once upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xx, 366 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3946-3.)
Kovac, Jeffrey, Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 192 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-87071-575-4.)
Kulik, Gary, “War Stories”: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers—What Really Happened in Vietnam. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xii, 305 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59797-304-5.)
Moyar, Mark, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xx, 347 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-300-15276-0.)
Noles, James L., and James L. Noles Jr., Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. x, 277 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1654-9.)
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan, Allies against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xxii, 458 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1669-5.)
Shea, William L., Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. x, 358 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3315-5.)
Shisler, Gail B., For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xviii, 323 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-59114-826-5.)
Sizer, Mona D., The Glory Guys: The Story of the U.S. Army Rangers. (Lanham: Taylor Trade, 2010. viii, 293 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58979-392-7.)
Sloan, Bill, The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950; The Battles That Saved South Korea—and the Marines—from Extinction. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. xii, 385 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-1-4165-7174-2.)
Walzer, Michael, and Nicolaus Mills, eds., Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 158 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4216-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Werrell, Kenneth P., Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xvi, 332 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-59114-940-8.)
Willmott, H. P., The Last Century of Sea Power, vol.1: From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894–1922. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xx, 543 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-253-35214-9.)
Wooster, Robert, The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xviii, 361 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8263-3843-3.)
Yui, Daizaburo, Kôsen no kyôwakoku Amerika (A hawkish republic: Researching the war memories in American history). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2008. 251 pp. ¥780, isbn 978-4-00-431148-5.) In Japanese.
Schultz, Robert, and James Shell, We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xiv, 212 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-778-7.)
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