Recent Scholarship
Military
Adelberg, Michael S., “An Evenly Balanced County: The Scope and Severity of Civil Warfare in Revolutionary Monmouth County, New Jersey,” Journal of Military History, 73 (Jan. 2009), 9–47.
Brew, Wayne, “The Hole in the Map: Letterkenny Army Depot, Historic Preservation, and Base Realignment and Closure (brac),” Material Culture, 41 (Spring 2009), 61–77. Heavily illustrated.
Dunn, David Hastings, “Innovation and Precedent in the Kosovo War: The Impact of Operation Allied Force on U.S. Foreign Policy,” International Affairs (London), 85 (May 2009), 531–46.
Foster, John Michael, Jr., “‘For the Good of the Cause and the Protection of the Border’: The Service of the Indiana Legion in the Civil War, 1861–1865,” Civil War History, 55 (March 2009), 31–55.
Hauptman, Laurence M., and Heriberto Dixon, “Cadet David Moniac: A Creek Indian’s Schooling at West Point, 1817–1822,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Sept. 2008), 322–48.
Hilliard, Jerry, et al., “A Confederate Encampment at Cross Hollow, Benton County,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Winter 2008), 359–74.
Hudson, Linda S., “The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas, 1858–1861: An Analysis of the First (Military) Degree Knights,” in The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas during the Civil War, ed. Kenneth W. Howell, 52–67. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009. xiv, 348 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57441-259-8.)
Kohn, Richard H., “The Danger of Militarization in an Endless ‘War’ on Terrorism,” Journal of Military History, 73 (Jan. 2009), 177–208.
Owens, Scott W., “The Federal Invasion of Pickens County, April 5–7, 1865: Croxton’s Sipsey River Campaign,” Alabama Review, 62 (April 2009), 83–112.
Parker, Christopher S., “When Politics Becomes Protest: Black Veterans and Political Activism in the Postwar South,” Journal of Politics, 71 (Jan. 2009), 113–31.
Raynor, Laura A., and Douglas J. Kennett, “Dietary Variability among a Sample of United States Soldiers during the War of 1812,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 76–87.
Walters, Lori C., “Beyond the Cape: An Examination of Cape Canaveral’s Influence on the City of Cocoa Beach, 1950–1963,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Fall 2008), 235–57.
Williams, Chad L., “Vanguards of the New Negro: African American Veterans and Post–World War I Racial Militancy,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Summer 2007), 347–70.
Brown, Melissa Tracey, “Enlisting Masculinity: Gender and the Recruitment of the All-Volunteer Force” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3319594.
Clifton, David J. G., “Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, and Regime Change: Political Linguistics and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq” (York University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR38997.
Daigle, Craig A., “The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969–1973” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311383.
Grant-Costa, Paul Joseph, “The Last Indian War in New England: The Mohegan Indians v. the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, 1703–1774” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317120.
Hentschel, Timothy Robert, “United States Army Organizational Transformation during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations and Its Impact on the Army Officer Corps” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323059.
Black, Jeremy, Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century. (New York: Continuum, 2008. viii, 216 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-84725-243-2.)
Call, Steve, Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2009. xiv, 224 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-60344-091-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-60344-100-1.)
Churchill, Robert H., To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant’s Face: Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xiv, 370 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-472-11682-9.)
Davies, Bruce, The Battle at Ngok Tavak: Allied Valor and Defeat in Vietnam. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xxii, 242 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-89672-658-1.)
Hunt, David, Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiv, 272 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-691-0. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-692-7.)
Jeffers, H. Paul, Taking Command: General J. Lawton Collins from Guadalcanal to Utah Beach and Victory in Europe. (New York: Caliber Books, 2009. x, 325 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-0-451-22687-7.)
Kastenberg, Joshua E., The Blackstone of Military Law: Colonel William Winthrop. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. x, 342 pp. Paper, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6177-0.)
Kozak, Warren, LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay. (Washington: Regnery, 2009. xiv, 434 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-59698-569-8.)
Langley, Lester D., Simón Bolívar: Venezuelan Rebel, American Revolutionary. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xxvi, 139 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7425-3752-1.)
von Lingen, Kerstin, Kesselring’s Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945–1960, trans. Alexandra Klemm. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. x, 451 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1641-1.)
Morton, Matthew Darlington, Men on Iron Ponies: The Death and Rebirth of the Modern U.S. Cavalry. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. xiv, 286 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-87580-397-5.)
Norman, Michael, and Elizabeth M. Norman, Tears in the Darkness: The Story of Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009. xiv, 463 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-374-27260-9.)
Ocampo, Emilio, The Emperor’s Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. xxiv, 503 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1646-4.)
Parrish, Thomas, To Keep the British Isles Afloat: fdr’s Men in Churchill’s London, 1941. (New York: Collins, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $26.99, isbn 978-0-06-135793-0.)
Pieslak, Jonathan, Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35323-8. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-22087-5.)
Preble, Christopher A., The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 212 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-8014-4765-5.)
Strebe, Amy Goodpaster, Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. (Dulles: Potomac, 2009. xviii, 109 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-59797-266-6.)
Wilson, Marc, Hero Street, U.S.A.: The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xvi, 192 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4012-4.)
Block, Mary R., “‘The Stoutest Son’: The Mexican-American War Journal of Henry Clay Jr.,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Winter 2008), 5–42.
Gray, Wesley R., Embedded: A Marine Corps Adviser inside the Iraqi Army. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. x, 257 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-1-59114-340-6.)
Hutton, Paul Andrew, and Durwood Ball, eds., Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xii, 404 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3997-5.) Originally published in 1987.
Ladd, Dean, and Steven Weingartner, Faithful Warriors: A Combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xxxviii, 241 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59114452-6.)
Paine, Halbert Eleazer, A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. xxii, 180 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8071-3418-4.)
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