Recent Scholarship
Military
Abe, Hiroko, “Mo no kyodotai: Nashonaru shimboru toshiteno Betonamu Beteranzu Memoriaru” (The community of mourning: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a national symbol), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 107–25. In Japanese.
Brouns, Thomas, “Exploiting Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan,” Military Review, 89 (July–Aug. 2009), 10–20.
Browning, Judkin, “‘I Am Not So Patriotic as I Was Once’: The Effects of Military Occupation on the Occupying Union Soldiers during the Civil War,” Civil War History, 55 (July 2009), 217–43.
Buchanan, Chester C., “Jesse Copher: One of Daniel Boone’s Salt Makers,” Kentucky Ancestors, 44 (Spring 2009), 119–35.
Dawson, Joseph G., III, “Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy’s ‘Offensive-Defensive’ Strategy in the U.S. Civil War,” Journal of Military History, 73 (April 2009), 591–607.
Garfield, Seth, “A Amazônia no imaginário norte-americano em tempo de guerra” (Amazonia in the U.S. wartime imaginary), Revista Brasileira de História, 29 (no. 57, 2009), 19–65. In Portuguese.
Gelpi, Paul D., Jr., “Piney Woods Stalag: The Internment of Axis Prisoners of War in Camp Ruston, Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 50 (Summer 2009), 341–50.
Gerber, David, “Creating Group Identity: Disabled Veterans and American Government,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (July 2009), 23–28.
Gilman, Carolyn, “L’Anneé du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780, Part 1,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (April 2009), 133–47.
Gilman, Carolyn, “L’Anneé du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780, Part 2,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (July 2009), 195–211.
Goldman, David I., “The Generals and the Germs: The Army Leadership’s Response to Nixon’s Review of Chemical and Biological Warfare Policies in 1969,” Journal of Military History, 73 (April 2009), 531–69.
Gonzalez, Michael, “War and the Making of History: The Case of Mexican California, 1821–1846,” California History, 86 (no. 2, 2009), 5–25. Heavily illustrated.
Goodman, David, “Anglophilia and Racial Nationalism in the Debate about U.S. Entry into World War 2,” in Projections of Britain in the United States of America, Australia, and New Zealand: 1900–1950, ed. Heather Kerr and Lawrence Warner, 17–24. (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2008. vii, 72 pp. Paper, isbn 978-1-921-01318-8.)
Haw, James, “‘Every Thing Here Depends upon Opinion’: Nathanael Greene and Public Support in the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 109 (July 2008), 212–31.
Kimble, Lionel, Jr., “‘The Only Way to Get What’s Coming to Us’: African American Coalition Building and Veterans’ Rights in Post–World War II Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Spring 2009), 53–70.
Kurosaki, Akira, “Kakuheiki no kyozon o mosakusuru kagakusha: Paguwosshu kaigi niokeru saishogen yokushiron no juyo to beikokiu no kagakusha no yakuwari, 1955–1963 nen” (The Pugwash Conference and American scientists’ quest for disarmament and stable mutual deterrence, 1955–1963), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 77–98. In Japanese.
LaFeber, Walter, “The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (Spring 2009), 71–93.
MacKinnon, William P., “‘Who’s in Charge Here?’: Utah Expedition Command Ambiguity,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Spring 2009), 30–64.
Mallett, Derek R., “Who Was the ‘Enemy among Us’? Missouri’s World War II Prisoners of War,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (July 2009), 226–40.
McCall, Jack H., Jr., “‘Amazingly Indiscreet’: The Plot to Capture Wilhelm II,” Journal of Military History, 73 (April 2009), 449–69.
McGhee, James E., “‘A Damned Tight Place’: General Jeff Thompson Confronts the Federals at Fredericktown, Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (April 2009), 148–60.
McPherson, Robert S., “Soldiering in a Corner, Living on the Fringe: Military Operations in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1890,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 126–50.
Mieszkowski, Jan, “Great War, Cold War, Total War,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (April 2009), 211–28.
Mimaki, Seiko, “‘Amerikateki Heiwa’ no sekaika o mezashite: Senkan-ki Amerika no senso ihoka undo” (Globalizing ‘American peace’: The outlawry of war movement in interwar America), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 197–212. In Japanese.
Pomeroy, C. David, Jr., “Reassessing the Location of Vince’s Bridge: Critical Prelude to the Battle of San Jacinto,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (April 2009), 411–27.
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, and , “Brief Encounter: A New York Cavalryman’s Striking Conversation with Abraham Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 30 (Summer 2009), 1–24.
Ross, John F., “Wilderness Ordeal,” American Heritage, 59 (Summer 2009), 32–43.
Sakade, Takeshi, “Kakufukakusan rejimu to gunji sangyo kiban: 1966 nen nato kiki o meguru Bei-Ei-Doku Kaku gunjihi kosho (1966 Nen 3 Gatsu–1967 Nen 4 Gatsu)” (npt regime and defense industrial base: U.S., U.K., and West Germany nuclear and military expenditure negotiations (March 1966–April 1967) surrounding the nato crisis of 1966), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 99–118. In Japanese.
Savage, Cynthia, “A Modern Response to the Cold War: Paul Harris and the Lawton National Guard Armory,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 410–27.
Shrake, Peter, “Chasing an Elusive War: The Illinois Militia and the Winnebago War of 1827,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Spring 2009), 27–52.
Singh, Nikhil Pal, “Beyond the ‘Empire of Jim Crow’: Race and War in Contemporary U.S. Globalism,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 20 (2009), 89–112.
Smith, Michael M., “General Rafael Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Border Crisis of 1877,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 112 (Jan. 2009), 235–60.
Veasey, Ashley, “Liberty Shipyards: The Role of Savannah and Brunswick in the Allied Victory, 1941–1945,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Summer 2009), 159–81.
Yost, David S., “Assurance and U.S. Extended Deterrence in nato,” International Affairs (London), 85 (July 2009), 755–80.
Zdon, Al, “Colvill of Minnesota,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2009), 260–71. Heavily illustrated.
Esplin, Emron Lee, “Racial Mixture and Civil War: The Histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the Novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes” (Michigan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331903.
Hagerott, Mark R., “Commanding Men and Machines: Admiralship, Technology, and Ideology in the 20th Century U.S. Navy” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3324805.
Lukasik, Sebastian Hubert, “Military Service, Combat, and American Identity in the Progressive Era” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3330826.
McLaughlin, John J., “General Albert Coady Wedemeyer, 1897–1989: Soldier, Scholar, Statesman” (Drew University, 2008). Order No. DA3335386.
Muehlbauer, Matthew S., “Justice and Just War: A History of Early New England, 1630–1655” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326359.
Nowowiejski, Dean A., “The Diplomat and the Democrat: Two American Military Governors of Germany” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3332428.
Reardon, Jeff T., “The Evolution of the U.S. Navy into an Effective Night-Fighting Force during the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942–1943” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3327141.
Sweeney, Patrick C., “Collateral Damage: Technology’s Influence upon the American Warrior’s Ethical Obligation to the Noncombatant from the Civil War to the War on Terror” (Salve Regina University, 2008). Order No. DA3333058.
Atkinson, Rick, The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. (New York: Holt, 2007. xxii, 791 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8050-6289-2. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-8050-8861-8.)
Baggett, James Alex, Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee’s Union Cavalry in the Civil War. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xvi, 444 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3398-9.)
Bradley, Mark Philip, Vietnam at War. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi, 233 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-280349-8.)
Cilella, Salvatore G., Jr., Upton’s Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xiv, 586 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1645-9.)
Donovan, James, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn; The Last Great Battle of the American West. (New York: Little, Brown, 2008. xvi, 528 pp. Cloth, $26.99, isbn 978-0-316-15578-6. Paper, $16.99, isbn 978-0-316-06747-8.)
Gustafsson, Mai Lan, War and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 206 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4770-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7501-6.)
Harder, Robert O., Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xii, 299 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-359-8.)
Hatley, Allen G., Reluctant Rebels: The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Regiment. (Hillsboro: Hill College Press, 2006. x, 191 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9121-7242-2.)
Hess, Earl J., In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xxiv, 403 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3282-0.)
MacDonald, L. Lloyd, Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution. (Gretna: Pelican, 2009. 365 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-58980-638-2.)
Matsuda, Takeshi, Sengo nihon niokeru Amerika no sofuto pawa: Han-eikyuteki izon no kigen (The American soft power in postwar Japan: The origins of semi-permanent dependence). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2008. 452 pp. ¥6,090, isbn 978-4-00023-676-8.) In Japanese.
Mayers, Robert A., The War Man: The True Story of a Citizen-Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown. (Yardley: Westholme, 2009. xii, 284 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-59416-082-0.)
O’Hara, Vincent P., Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xviii, 324 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-59114-648-3.)
Settles, Thomas M., John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xiv, 346 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8071-3391-0.)
Tully, Anthony P., Battle of Surigao Strait. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xx, 329 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-253-35242-2.)
Villahermosa, Gilberto N., Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2009. xviii, 329 pp. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-0-16-083324-3.)
Yui, Daizaburo, Kosen no kyowakoku: Senso no kioku o tadoru (A republic of militarism: Tracing the memories of war). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2008. 258 pp. ¥780, isbn 978-4-00431-148-5.) In Japanese.
Burkhardt, George S., ed., Double Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and Soldier Edward W. Bacon. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. xvi, 258 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8093-2910-6.)
Gorrell, Henry T., Soldiers of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936–1943, ed. Kenneth Gorrell. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xiv, 314 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1851-3.)
Haynes, Fred, and James A. Warren, The Lions of Iwo Jima. (New York: Holt, 2009. xii, 272 pp. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-8050-8325-5.)
Heller, Francis H., Steel Helmet and Mortarboard: An Academic in Uncle Sam’s Army. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xvi, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1838-4.)
Kerns, Raymond C., Above the Thunder: Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xviii, 305 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87338-980-8.)
Kniptash, Vernon E., On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary, ed. E. Bruce Geelhoed. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xiv, 236 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4032-2.)
Patrick, Jeff, ed., Guarding the Border: The Military Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 1912–1917. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xiv, 205 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60344-096-7.)
Sypher, Francis J., Jr., New York State Society of the Cincinnati: Histories of New York Regiments of the Continental Army. (Fishkill: New York State Society of the Cincinnati, 2008. xiv, 359 pp. $200.00.)
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