American Military History
Dr. Patrick D. Reagan
History 3360-001 (#13360) Dr. Reagan
11:15-12:10 MWF Spring 2008
HH 114 HH 109
Instructor Information
Office Hours: 10-11 a.m. MWF and by appointment in HH109
Telephone: 372-3342 (office), 372-3332 (message), 528-3998 (home)
E-mail: preagan at any time or preagan@tntech.edu from off campus
Professional Experience of Dr. Reagan
Course Requirements
Read sections on Study Tips below first week and before examinations and the paper.
Read "Selecting Sources for the Military History class paper," before picking paper topic.
Read "Preparing to Write a Research Paper," to prepare class paper.
The objective of the course is to obtain a working knowledge of
American military history through class attendance, lectures,
readings, discussions, films, examinations, and a paper. Be sure
to review the Study Tips section below for excellent,
practical study advice, especially as you prepare for
examinations and the paper. As you become more familiar with
using the Internet, you might find the
Military History,
Selecting Sources for Research in Military History, and
ROTCsites particularly interesting and useful.
Components of Course Responsibilities and Grade
- Class attendance and active participation mandatory
(absences penalized up to 10 points)
- Examination--February 13 (100 points--25% of grade)
- Examination--March 26 (100 points--25% of grade)
- Seven-ten-page paper paper--April 14 (100 points--25% of grade):
Ten-page, double-spaced paper based on interpretation, analytical reading, and
intellectual response to Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism:
How Americans Are Seduced by War (new York: Oford University Pres, 2006).
Final paper must be turned in in both printed and electronic (properly labelled 3.5 inch diskette) formats.
- Final Examination--May 1 (100 points--25% of grade)
- To pass course, all requirements must be met on time and all
examinations and the paper completed. Plagiarism--representing someone
else's work as your own--is a violation of university polilcy and will result in
a failing grade for the course at a minimum.
- Final grade based on points earned by your work:
360-400=A
320-3599=B
280-319=C
240-179=D
Below 240=F
Disability Accommodations
Students with a disability requiring accommodations should contact the Office of
Disability Services (ODS). An Accommodation Request (AR) should be completed as
soon as possible, preferably by the end of the first week of classes. The ODS is located
in the Roaden University Center, Room 112, telephone 372-6119.
Study Tips for History Classes
- Understanding University Success (Center for Educational Policy Research)
- Dialogua in Military History (Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University)
- David Bollier,
"Reclaiming the Commons: why we need to protect our public resources from
private encroachment," Boston Review 27 (Summer 2002)
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
(National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)
- Facing History and Ourselves: Examining History and Human Behavior
- Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education, June 2003 (ETS)
- The Big Payoff: Educational
Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
July 2002, U.S. Census Bureau Special Report
- Military.com
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
(National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)
- Armed Forces History (Smithsonian Institution)
- Commission on the National Guard and Reserves
- A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
- Lisha Penn, "Documenting African Americans in the Records of
Military Agencies," Prologue 29 (Summer 1997)
- African American Military History (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
- Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- Leavenworth Papers (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS>
- Textbook Information on the Internet
- Connecting Information [TTU Computer
center]
- History and the Internet: A Guide by Patrick D. Reagan (McGraw-Hill)
- Especially for Researchers (Library of Congress)
- Locating Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)
- A Student's Guide to the Study of History (S. Kreis)
- TTU Student Handbook
- How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
- Counseling Center (Tennessee Technological University)
- Counseling Center Workshops, TTU
- Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
- The Learning Strategies Database (Muskingum College)
- Content-Specific Learning Strategies for History
(The Learning Strategies Database, Muskingum College)
- Tips for History Students (Ohio State
University)
- How to Read a Book (P.N. Edwards,
University of Michigan)
- Critical Reading (D. Kurland)
- Guides to Historical Research (University of Washington Library)
- Study Guides for History Classes
- How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
- Preparing to Write a Research Paper
- Selecting Sources for the Military History class paper
- Topical Index Military History (History Bibliographies Guide, S. Blaschke)
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Military Battles and Campaings (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)
- The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (M. Harvey, Washington College)
- Reading, Writing, and Researching for History:
A Guide for College Students (P. Rael, Bowdoin College)
- A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
(C. Branham, St. Louis University)
Required Books
- Allan R. Millett and Peter Maslowski, For the Common Defense:
A Military History of the United States of America, Revised and
expanded edition. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Referred to as Text below.
- Brian McAllister Linn. The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Referred to as Linn below.
- John McManus.The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat
Soldier in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
Referred to as McManus below.
- Andrew J. Bacevish. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Referred to as Bacevich below.
Reading Assignments and
Lecture and Discussion Schedule
READINGS SHOULD BE COMPLETED BEFORE/DURING THE WEEK ASSIGNED
Introduction, Themes, Key Terms
Assignment: Millett, pp. xi-xiv; handout; and Linn, pp. 1-9
(Note themes and definitions of key terms in Millett and handouts)
Internet Resources:
- Dialogue in Military History (Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University)
- 2004 U.S. Military Academy Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY)
- Combined Arms Research Library (U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Books for the Military Professional (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Guide to the Study and Use of Military History by John E. Jessup, Jr. and Robert W. Coakley (1988)
- Bibliographies and Special Lists (Combined Arms Research Library)
- Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
-
U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List
- Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- U.S. Army Professional Journals
- Staff Rides and Events (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York)
- Air and Space Museums (Aero.com)
- Imperial War Museum (Duxford, U.K.)
- Military History Network and H-War list (H-Net at Michigan State University)
- United States Military Academy (West Point, New York)
- Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- U.S. Army Center of Military History (Washington, D.C.)
- Strategy Page (J. Dunnigan)
- War Letters (American Experience, PBS)
- Killology Research Group: The Psychologial Cost of Learning to Kill (LTC Dave Grossman, U.S. Army, Ret.)
- National Cemetery Administration (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
- Obtaining Military Records & Medals (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
- Army Museum System (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
- National Guard Gallery
- National Guard Bibliographies (Center of Militery History)
- History at Fort Leavenworth
- U.S. Army War College/Military History Institute (Carlisle, PA)
- Military Review: The Professional Journal of the United States Army
- U. S. Army Command and General Staff College (Ft. Leavenworth, KS)
- National Defense University (United States)
- US Naval & Shipbuilding Museum Online History Center
Naval, Military and Martime History
- U.S. Naval War College
- United States Naval Institute
- U.S. Navy Department Library (Washington, D.C.)
- Naval Historical Center
- U.S. Naval Academy Museum (Preble Hall)
- United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
- National Museum of the [U.S.] Marine Corps
- Marine Corps Gazette
- United States Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point, NY)
- United States Air Force History Support Office (Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C.)
- United States Air Force Museum
- A Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (S.D. Smith and J. A. Zeidler,
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories)
- African American Military History (B.J. McRae, Jr.)
- Air University (U.S. Air Force)
- The American War Library [information about U.S. military veterans]
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (National Endowment for the Arts)
- Women and the Military (The Minerva Center)
- Useful Links for Women's Military Studies
(Minerva Center)
- Bibliographies of Women and the Military In History (R. Pennington, Minerva Center)
- Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War, July 12-13, 2002, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Women in the U.S. Navy (Naval Historical Center)
January 14--Course Syllabus and Responsibilities
January 18--What is Military History?
January 18--No Class; Review Study Tips section above.
Assignment: McManus, pp. ix-xv and Millett, pp. 1-46
Internet Resources:
January 21--Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, no class
January 23--Film: "The Face of Battle"
January 25--The Colonial Militia
The Formation of American Military Policy, 1607-1815
Assignment: Millett, pp. 51-106
Internet Resources:
January 28--Origins of the American Revolution
January 30--The War for American Independence
February 1--Creating Military Policy and Structure for the New Nation
Assignment: Millett, pp. 106-157 and Linn, pp. 10-29
Begin study for examination
Internet Resources:
February 4--The War of 1812: A Second War for Independence
The Military and the Nation: 1815-1898
February 6--The Interwar Military
February 8--The War with Mexico
Assignment: Study for Examination
Internet Resources:
February 11--Questions and in-class review for examination
February 13--Examination
February 15--Origins of the Civil War
Assignment: Millett, Chapter 6
Internet Resources:
- Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
- The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents About the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
(University of Pennsylvania)
- American Battlefield Protection Program (National Park Service)
- The Civil War Preservation Trust
- Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
- Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc.
- Friends of the [C.S.S.] Hunley
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and Related Links
- Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library
- The Museum of the Confederacy (Richmond, VA)
- "The Last Battle: Confederate Veterans, Confederate Daughters, History Textbooks, and the Lost Cause"
(University of Virginia)
- National Civil War Association (reenacting)
- Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (Rutgers University)
- Civil War Maps (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Selected Civil War Photographs
(American Memory, Library of Congress)
- U.S. Civil War Center (Louisiana State U.)
- The American Civil War Homepage (Sunstie at
University of Tennessee)
- Civil War @Smithsonian: Collection, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
(National Portrait Gallery)
- Gardner's Sketch Book of the [Civil] War (Cornell University Library)
- The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady (Library of Congress)
- Civil War Interactive
- Civil War Research Center
(Tennessee's Backroads Heritage/Motlow State Community College)
- American Civil War Institute (Campbellsville University)
- Civil War Related Sites in the National Park Service
- Links to Other [Civil War] Sites (K. Fraser)
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States (K. Fraser)
- Civil War Battles by State (National Park Service)
- Guide to Virginia's Civil War Battlefields & Sites
- Civil War Artillery Sites (C.T. Brink)
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Rice University)
- DoD Celebrates African American History Month (U.S. Department of Defense)
- History of Black Military Service
(Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service)
- Gilder-Lehrman History Online Guide to Civil War Prisons (R. Jensen)
- United States Colored Troops (Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System, National Park Service)
- The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
(National Archives teaching materials)
- Freedmen and Southern Society Project
(University of Maryland, College Park)
- The Civil War Ironclads Page (M.F. Jenkins)
February 18--The Civil War as Traditional War, 1861-1862
February 20--Civil War Weapons and Tactics
February 22--The Civil War as Total War
Assignment: Millett, pp. 203-264 and Linn, pp. 68-82
Internet Resources:
February 25--The Postwar Military
February 27--The Indian Wars of the Trans-Mississippi West
February 29--Military Professionalism Comes of Age
Assignment: Begin reading McManus, Deadly Brotherhood
March 3-7--Spring Break, No Classes
America's Rise to World Power and
the Two World Wars, 1898-1945
Assignment: Millett, pp. 265-342 and Linn, pp. 29-67. 82-115
Internet Resources:
- Preparing to Write a Research Paper
- Selecting Sources for the Military History class paper
- Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- Naval War College (Newport, Rhode Island)
- The Era of William McKinley (Ohio State University)
- William McKinley and the Spanish-American War (Ohio State University)
- Remember the Maine (Maine PBS)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Spanish-American War: Volunteer Forces (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
- Kasaysayan: Philippine History 101 (Tribung Pinoy)
- Sentenaryo/Centennial
of Philippine Revolution and Philippine-American War
(F.J. Zwick, Syracuse University)
- The War from a
Parlor: Steroscopic Images of the Philippine-American War and
Soldiers' Letters Home (F.J. Zwick, Syracuse University)
- Anti-Imperialism
in the United States, 1898-1935 (F.J. Zwick, Syracuse University)
- GeoWorld History: Europe to Eurasia (Knowledge Quest, Inc.)
- The Age of Imperialism (Small Planet Communications)
- World War I: 1914-1918 (Knowledge Quest, Inc.)
- First World War.com: The War to End All Wars
- The Nations Involved in the Great War
(University of Kansas)
- World War I Document Archive (Brigham Young
University)
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
- War Artists from the First World War (Archives of Ontario)
- The Poster War--Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War (Provincial Museum of Alberta)
- French Posters from World War I (Library of Congress)
- Rememberance and Mourning: Literature of the Great War (Haverford College)
- Photos of the Great War
- The Great War: 80 Years on (BBC News)
- The Great War Society
- The Western Front Association, United States Branch
March 10--The War with Spain: 1898
March 12--Discussion based on Linn, pp. 29-67, 82-115
March 14--The Great War, 1914-1917
Assignment: Millett, Chapters 11-12 and Linn, pp. 116-150
Internet Resources:
March 17--U.S. Military Contribution in World War I
March 19--Military Theory Between the Wars, 1919-1939
March 21--Good Friday holiday, no class
Assignment: Study for Examination and Millett, Chap. 13
Internet Resources:
- How to Succeed as a Student (K. Bucknall)
- Study Guides and Strategies (University of St. Thomas)
- The Learning Strategies Database (Muskingum College)
- Content-Specific Learning Strategies for History
(The Learning Strategies Database, Muskingum College)
- Tips for History Students (Ohio State
University)
- How to Read a Book (P.N. Edwards,
University of Michigan)
- Critical Reading (D. Kurland)
- Guides to Historical Research (University of Washington Library)
- Study Guides for History Classes
- How to Prepare for and Take Essay Examinations
- Virtual Library Geschicte: Drittes Reich [History: Third Reich and World War II]
- The Spanish Civil War: Dreams & Nightmares exhibit (Imperial War Museum, London, U.K.)
- Spanish Civil War (Spartacus Educational, U.K.)
- Spanish Civil War
(University of California, San Diego)
- Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection
(University of California, San Diegeo)
- Guernia: Testimony of War (Treasures of the World, PBS)
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (Brandeis University)
- The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
- International Bibliography of the Second World War
- Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
- World War II: A Selected List of References [June 1992] (Humanities and Social Science Division, Library of Congress)
- World War II in Europe (Felician College)
- World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
- World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
- Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of WWII
(Historical Text Archives, Mississippi State University)
- Axis History Factbook
- World War II pictures (Corbis)
- World War II Resources: Primary Source Materials on the Web (Purdue University)
- World War II Resources on the Internet (Miami University)
- Yahoo World War II subject search
March 24--The Origins of World War II
March 26--Examination
March 28--World War II in Europe: Tank Warfare
Assignment: Millett, Chapter 13 and McManus, pp. 1-153
Internet Resources:
- The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
- International Bibliography of the Second World War
- Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
- World War II: A Selected List of References [June 1992] (Humanities and Social Science Division, Library of Congress)
- World War II in Europe (Felician College)
- World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
- World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
- Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of WWII
(Historical Text Archives, Mississippi State University)
- Tanks! (W.A. Kirk, Jr.)
- World War II pictures (Corbis)
- World War II Resources: Primary Source Materials on the Web (Purdue University)
- World War II Resources on the Internet (Miami University)
- Axis History Factbook
- Yahoo World War II subject search
- FeldGrau.com
- The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)
(Sword of the Motherland)
- World War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web (L.W. Jewell)
- The World War II Picture of the Day
- The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
- Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library [Adobe Acrobat .pdf format files] (Southern Methodist University)
- Institute on World War II and the Human Experience (Florida State
University)
- William's WW II Page (William E. Maxwell)
- World War II Seminar
(University of
California, San Diego)
- Brayton Harris, "400 Years of Subs" ("Hitler's Lost Sub," Nova, PBS)
- The U. S. Army in World War II Series [Green Book Series]
- Echoes of War: Stories from the Big Red One (First Division Museum at Cantigny, Wheaton, IL and Ball State University)
- Go for Broke Educational Foundation (100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II)
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS) [World War II predecessor to Central Intelligence Agency]
- Normandy (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- D-Day Web: The Real Normandy (T. White)
- National D-Day Museum (New Orleans, LA)
- Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial (American Battlefield Monuments Commission)
- Historical Archives, Eisenhower Center for American Studies (University of New Orleans)
- D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery (Portsmouth, England)
- Audie Murphy Memorial Web Site (R.L. Rodgers)
- Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor (Fort Knox, KY)
- Tanks of World War II (OnWar.com)
- The National World War II Memorial
- World War II Registry of Remembrances (National World War II Memorial)
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust (University of South Florida)
- Holocaust and Jewish Studies Sites (D. Graf, Virginia Wesleyn College)
- Holocaust Assets (U.S. Department of State)
- Lest We Forget: A History of the Holocaust
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
- Holocaust Assets (U.S. Department of State)
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- Holocaust Education Resources (Center for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, UK)
- The Nuremberg Project (Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion)
- Robert Griffi
World War II Propaganda Posters
- World War II Poster Database (Northwestern University Library)
- The Minerva Center (Pasadena, MD)
- The Minerva Center (H-Net site)
- H-Minerva: Women in the Military, Women and War list (H-Net at Michigan State University)
- Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War, July 12-13, 2002, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Women's Army Corps (WAC) Museum (Fort McClellan, AL)
- WASP on the Web: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
- Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II (Library of Congress)
- American Women and the World War II Experience (University of Illinois)
- What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II (South Kingston High School)
- Jill and Al: World War II's Biggest and Best Letter Archive (Grazian Archive)
- Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War II
(University of Virginia)
- FAQ for soc.history.war.world-war-ii
- The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
- Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
- The War in the Pacific: A Brief History and Timeline
- Online Documentary: The Nanking Atrocities (M. Kajimoto,
University of Missouri)
- "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" [Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941]
(National Archives and Records Administration)
- Pearl Harbor Remembered (D. Schaaf)
- The Day After the Day Which Will Live in Infamy:
"Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (American Folklife Collection, Library of Congress)
- Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
- The Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings (L.W. Jewell)
- Pearl Harbor Archives (Purdue University)
- International Midway Memorial Foundation [Battle of Midway, June 4-5, 1942]
- Germ War and Experiments on Humans
(University of Minnesota)
- Japanese American Incarceration Fact Sheet (Japanese American National Museum)
- Chronology of World War II Incarceration (Japanese American National Museum)
- Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet for America's Concentration Camps: Remembering The Japanese American Experience (Japanese American National Museum)
- Question and Answer Fact Sheet for America's Concentration Camps: Remembering The Japanese American Experience (Japanese American National Museum)
- "Suffering Under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of
World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites(National Park Service publication)
- War Relocation Authority Photographs
of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement (Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)
- The Japanese American Experience in World War II: Telling the Story of a Forgotten Chapter in Arkansas History
- Japanese Americans in America's Wars: A Chronology (Japanese American National Museum)
- Go for Broke Educational Foundation (100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II)
- Brief History of the Corps (Marine Corps Historical Center)
- National Museum of the [U.S.] Marine Corps
- U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division: Gateway to Marine Corps History
- The U. S. Army in World War II Series [Green Book Series]
- African-Americans the the U.S. Navy (Navy Historical Center)
- Naval-HIstory.net [focus on World War I and World War II]
- Marine Corps History Reading (Air University, Maxwell AFB)
- U.S. Marine Corps History
- Marine Corps Gazette
- Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center, Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA
- Brief History of the Corps (Marine Corps Historical Center)
- U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division: Gateway to Marine Corps History
- Electronic Publications [USMC history] (Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Rsearch Center)
- Alfred M. Gray Marine Corps Research Center (Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA)
- U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
- Naval-HIstory.net [focus on World War I and World War II]
- Brayton Harris, "400 Years of Subs" ("Hitler's Lost Sub," Nova, PBS)
- Frankel-y Speaking: About World War II in the South Pacific (Stanley A. Frankel, 1919-1999)
- Okinawa: The American Years, 1946-1972 (N.E. Sarantakes, Texas A & M
University)
March 31--Discussion based on McManus, pp. 1-153
April 2--World War II in the Pacific: Naval Aviation
April 4--World War II in the Pacific: The U.S. Marines
Assignment: Millett, Chap 14; McManus, pp. 154-350; and work on paper
Internet Resources:
April 7--Discussion based on McManus, pp. 154-350
April 9--Film: "Casualty"
April 11--Airpower: Testing Strategic Bombing
The Cold War, 1945-1991
Assignment: Millett, Chapters 15-17 and Linn, pp. 151-192
Internet Resources:
- Robert Griffith, "Un-Tangling the Web of Cold War Studies, or, How One Historian Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet," Journal of Multimedia History 3 (2000).
- Russian History Index (WWW Virtual Library)
- Revelations from the Russian Archives (Library of Congress)
- The Cold War (Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
- Cold War (CNN Perspectives)
- Cold War International History Project (Woodrow Wilson Center)
- Cold War International History Project Electronic Bulletin
- Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
- George C. Marshall Foundation
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS) [World War II predecessor to Central Intelligence Agency]
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Celebrating 50 Years
- Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- "Nuclear Arms and the Human Race" forum
(Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
- The High Energy Weapons Archive (Federation of American Scientists)
- Nuclear Weapons Frequently Asked Questions (MILNET)
- The Traveler's Guide to Nuclear Weapons (T. L. Karpin and J.M. Maroncelli)
- Bureau of Atomic Tourism
- Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Resources
- The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project (Brookings Institution)
- The Art of War (war comics)
- Preparing to Write a Research Paper
- Selecting Sources for the Military History class paper
- Topical Index Military History (History Bibliographies Guide, S. Blaschke)
- Map Library, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (Bartleby.com)
- Reading, Writing, and Researching for History:
A Guide for College Students (P. Rael, Bowdoin College)
- A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
(C. Branham, St. Louis University)
- James I. Matray, "Revisiting Korea:
Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War," Prologue 34 (Summer 2002)
- Korean War Project
- The Korean War (Project Whistlestop: Truman Digital Archive Project)
- Korean War (Canada in Historical Perspective)
- 50th Anniversary of the Korean War
- 50th Anniversary of the Integration of the Armed Forces
(Dr. K. Hughes, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command)
- Books for Understanding North Korea (American Association of University Presses)
- Britain's Small Wars, 1945-2001
- U.S. Army Aviation Museum (Fort Rucker, Alabama)
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Vietnam (Australian National University)
- Vietnam Online
- Embassy of Vietnam to the United States
- The Vietnam Pictures Archive (Sunsite.Unc.Edu)
- Investigating the Vietnam War (Spartacus Educational Publishing, U.K.)
- Vietnam War Bibliography (E.E. Moise)
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (ABC-Clio)
- The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 (Vassar College)
- Resources on the Vietnam Conflict (Texas Tech University)
- Vietnam War subject search (Yahoo)
- Vietnam War Newsgroup (Soc.History.War.Vietnam)
- Vietnam War Related Internet Links (University of Houston)
- The Vietnam War Internet Project
- Women in Vietnam
- Vietnam War Usenet Newsgroup
- soc.hist.war.vietnam Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Col Francis John Kelley, U.S. Army Special Force, 1961-1971 (Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1973, 1989. volume in
the Vietnam Studies series of the Center of Military History
- U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art (J. Pollock)
- The Wall: The Official Search Engine/Database for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
- Vietnam POW/MIA Database (Library of Congress) [Searchable]
- Cambodian Genocide Program (Yale University)
- Vietnam: Stories Since the War (P.O.V./PBS)
- Military Veterans
April 14--Origins of the Cold War
Seven-ten-page paper due at class time in print & electronic formats
April 16--An Unexpected Limited War in Korea, 1950-1953
April 18--The American Military in Vietnam
A New World?: Post Cold War and Post-9/11
Assignment: Millett, Chapter 18; Linn, pp. 193-240; and begin study for final examination
Internet Resources:
April 21--The War with Iraq, 1991
Assignment: Linn, pp. 193-240
Review Study Tips above and Reread carefully the preface in Millett and Morris for final examination
Internet Resources:
- Women and the Military (The Minerva Center)
- Useful Links for Women's Military Studies
(Minevra Center)
- Bibliographies of Women and the Military In History (R. Pennington, Minerva Center)
- Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War, July 12-13, 2002, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Women in the U.S. Navy (Naval Historical Center)
- U.S. Army Nurse Corps History (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
- Britain's Small Wars, 1945-2001
- Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden (Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper series, 1997) [Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993]
- The Future of War (Frontline, PBS)
- Contemporary Military Affairs
- Information Sources on Bosnia
- Teaching with the News: Crisis with Iraq Fall 2002 (Choices Education Program)
- Terror and Tehran: Does America's War on Terror hold democracy hostage in Iran? (Frontline, PBS)
- 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
- Max Boot, "Iraq and the American Small War Tradition,"
Historically Speaking 4 (Spring 2003)
- Project on Defense Alternatives (The Commonwealth Institute)
- The QDR Page (Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute)
- The Revolution in Military Affairs Debate (Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute)
- National Security Study Group (The Hart-Rudman Commission)
- U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (includes text of many treaties)
- Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues (United Nations Office in Geneva)
- United Nations Conference on Disarmament
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (United Nations Office at Geneva)
- 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union
- President [George W. Bush] Discusses National Missle Defense
- Plague War (Frontline/PBS)
[A report on the biological weapons threat)
- American Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy 1999
(Chicago Council on Foreign Relations)
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
- Information Sources On Afghanistan
April 25--Discussion based on Linn, pp. 193-240
Assignment: Study for final examination
Internet Resources:
- Combined Arms Research Library (U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Books for the Military Professional (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
- Guide to the Study and Use of Military History by John E. Jessup, Jr. and Robert W. Coakley (1988)
- Bibliographies and Special Lists (Combined Arms Research Library)
- Professional Military Reading Lists (U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS)
-
U.S. Army Chief of Staff's Professional Reading List
- Officer's Professional Reading Guide (United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
[.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
- Staff Rides and Events (U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York)
- Robert D. Kaplan,
"Fort Leavenworth and the Eclipse of Nationhood," The Atlantic Monthly, September 1996, pp. 75-90.
- Thomas E. Ricks,
"The Widening Gap Between the Military and Society,"
The Atlantic Monthly, July 1997, pp. 66-78.
-
The Army Today (articles from The Atlantic Monthly)
-
"The View From Inside," Interview with Robert D. Kaplan, author of Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors
in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1990,2001), The Atlantic Monthly, November 2001.
- Robert D. Kaplan,
"The Lawless Frontier," The Atlantic Monthly, September 2000.
- Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11 (Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and American RadioWorks)
- 911: Memory--Remembrance--Museum (H-Museum)
- Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
- National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [9-11 Commission] official site
- 9/11 Public Discourse Project [ten-member 9/11 Commission followup group after rlease of final report]
- Professor Sir Michael Howard,
"Mistake to Declare This a War," Royal United Services Institute Journal 146 (December 2001).
- David Talbot,
"The Making of a Hawk," Salon.com, January 3, 2002.
- Victor Davis Hanson, "Why the Muslims Misjudged Us,"Opinion Journal (WSM.com), February 25, 2002.
- Robert D. Kaplan, "Looking the World in the Eye [Samuel P. Huntington]," The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001
- Samuel P. Huntington,
"The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993.
- Samuel P. Huntington,
"If Not Civilizations, What? Samuel Huntington Responds to His Critics," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1993.
- Joel Achenbach,
"The Clash," [Samuel P. Huntington and Francis Fukuyama] Washington Post, Sunday, December 16, 2001, p. W17.
- Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth,
"American Primacy in Perspective," Foreign Affairs July/August 2002
- America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
- Information Sources on Afghanistan
- START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
(U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
- Combating Terrorism Center at [U.S. Military Academy,] West Point
- Terrorism Knowledge Bank (National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism)
- Terrorism Project (Center for Defense Information)
- Television and the War on Terrorism: The War at Home and Abroad
(Museum of Television & Radio)
- "The Hard Questions": The first war of the twenty-first century demands unsentimental thinking
about many subjects. Here are five. The Atlantic Monthly, December 2001.
- Afghan War Lessons and Future U.S. Policy (Global-Defence.com)
- Max Boot,
"Everything You Think You Know About the American Way of War Is Wrong,"
September 12, 2002 (Foreign Policy Research Institute)
- Max Boot, "Iraq and the American
Small War Tradition,"
Historically Speaking 4 (Spring 2003).
Defend America: U.S. Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism
- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002 (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency report)
- War Report: Iraq War and Afghanistan Aftermath (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- Max Boot, "Iraq and the American Small War Tradition,"
Historically Speaking 4 (Spring 2003)
- Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden,"
The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
- Joseph S. Nye, "Limits of American Power,"
Political Science Quarterly 117 (Winter 2002-2003): 545-559.
-
The Mideast: A Century of Conflict (NPR--National Public Radio)
- The War Behind Closed Doors:
The People, the Clashes, and--Ultimately the 'Grand Strategy'--Behind George W. Bush's Determination
to Go to War with Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
-
The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
- Carl Kaysen, Steven E. Miller, Martin B. Malin, William d. Nordhaus, John D. Steinbruner,
"War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives"
(American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- Shock and Awe:
Achieving Rapid Dominance by Harlan Ullman and James P. Wade with L.A. "Bud" Elney
(National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, December 1996)
- C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
(Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
- A Nation at War (New York Times
- War in Iraq (Washington Post)
- The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant
Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
- Iraq: The Human Cost (Center for International Studies, MIT)
- Teaching with the News: Crisis with Iraq Fall 2002 (Choices Education Program)
- Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on
Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The
World, America, December 2002 (Pew Research Center for the People and the Press)
-
Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
- Walter Laqueur, "The Terrorism to Come," Policy Review, August 2004
- Frontline documentary series (PBS)
- The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
- The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
- Frontline documentary series (PBS)
- The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
- The Choice 2004 (Frontline, PBS)
- Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and Election of 2004 (Patrick D. Reagan, Ph.D.)
- Report to the President, March 31, 2005, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
- Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
- Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
- Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
- America at a Crossroads (PBS)
- The Terrorism Index by Foreign Policy magaine & The Center For American Progress, June 2006
- Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
- Dialogue in Military History (Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University)
- War in the 21st Century: The Human Security Report 2005 (The Human Security Centre)
- Contemporary Military Affairs
- Military History
April 25--Discussion on Contemporary Military Issues
Assignment: Study Thematically for Final Essay Examination
Internet Resources:
May 1--Thursday, Final Examination, 10:30 a.m.--12:30 p.m
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