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Note: Each chapter contains Further Reading | |
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Diverse Approaches to American Military History | |
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How Americans Wage War: The Evolution of National Strategy | |
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Exploring the Social History of the Military | |
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Weapons and Technology Drive the American Military | |
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The Importance of Battle History | |
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The Evolving Relationship of Women and Combat | |
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The Colonial Era: Native American Versus European State Warfare | |
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Governor John Winthrop Recounts the Killing of John Stone and the Treaty with the Pequots, 1634 | |
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Captain John Underhill Justifies the Attack on Mystic Village, in the Pequot War (1637), 1638 | |
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Captain John Mason Explains the Decision to Burn the Village (1637), 1638 | |
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William Apess, a Pequot, Later Denounces the Mystic Massacre (1637), 1831 | |
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Roger Williams Ponders the Self-Imposed Limitations of Indian Warfare, 1643 | |
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Colonel George Washington Praises the Virginia Provincial Troops, 1757 | |
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The Puritans Were the Savages | |
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The Tragedy of Conflicting Military Cultures | |
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A Different View of the Evolution of the Militia to the Continental Army | |
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The American Revolution: Who Fought and Why? | |
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Loyalist Peter Oliver Tells How an American Prisoner of War Justified His Enlistment to His Captors (1775), c. 17771781 | |
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General George Washington Explains His Strategy, 1777 | |
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Jeremiah Greenman, an Enlisted Man, Recounts the Bloody Battle of Monmouth, 1778 | |
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Private Joseph Martin Provides the Only Contemporary Account of "Molly Pitcher" (1778), 1830 | |
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A Militia Company Worries About Indians and Local Safety, 1781 | |
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Samuel Sutphin, a Black Slave, Tells of His Service in the Revolution (17811783) and His Freedom, 1834 | |
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Sarah Osborn, a Soldier's Wife, Relates How She Accompanied the Continental Army to Yorktown (1781), 1837 | |
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Enlistment: Economic Opportunities for the Poor and Working Classes | |
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Enlistment: Patriotic Belief in the Cause of Freedom | |
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Enlistment: The Complexity of Motivations | |
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The New Nation, the Military, and an American Way of War | |
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The Articles of Confederation's Provisions on War and the Military, 1777 | |
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General George Washington Calls for a Standing Army, 1783 | |
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The Constitution's and Bill of Rights' Provisions on War and the Military, 1787, 1791 | |
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Antifederalists Fear a Large Military, 1787 | |
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Thomas Jefferson Advises an Economic Alternative to War, 1793 | |
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Alexander Hamilton Urges the Need for Defense and War, 1798 | |
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Andrew Jackson Proclaims War as a Crusade, 1812 | |
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American Wars as Crusades for Total Victory | |
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The Early Republic and Limited War | |
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The Army, Professionalism, Jacksonian Democracy, and Manifest Destiny | |
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President Andrew Jackson Calls for Removal of the Indians, 1830 | |
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From "Scarecrow Militia" to Volunteer National Guard Units: Contrasting Lithographs (1836, 1843) | |
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First Lieutenant Joseph R. Smith Bemoans Lack of Civilian Respect, 1838 | |
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General Ethan Allen Hitchcock Agonizes over the Seminole and Mexican Wars, 1840-1848 | |
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Lieutenant William T. Sherman Disdains Politics, 1844 | |
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D. L. Goodall, a Tennessee Volunteer, Exults in the Battle of Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 | |
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Eliza Johnston, an Army Wife, Reports on an Expedition Through Indian Territory, 18551856 | |
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Essays | |
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An Officer Corps Responds to an Undisciplined Society by Disciplined Professionalsim | |
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An Officer Corps Responds to Opportunities for Expansion with Images of Heroic Expeditions | |
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Generals, Soldiers, and the Civil War | |
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General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., Puts Forward an Offensive Strategy of Division and Concentration, 1862-1863; To General Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson, April 25, 1862; To Mary Lee (Robert E. Lee's wife), April 19, 1863; To General John Bell Hood, May 21, 1863; To President Jefferson Davis, June 10, 1863; To General Samuel Cooper, November 4, 1863 | |
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President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A., Defends His Overall Defensive Strategy, 1862 | |
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General James Longstreet, C.S.A., Criticizes Lee's Generalship (18631864), 1895 | |
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A Southern White Woman, Tells of Slaves Running off to Join the Yankees Who Armed Them, 1862 5. Private James Henry Gooding, a Northern Black Soldier, Fights for Freedom and the Union, 1863 | |
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Douglass Southall Freeman | |
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A Brilliant Commander | |
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A Flawed General Mark | |
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The Generalship of Grant and Sherman: Was the Civil War a Modern "Total" War? A Dissenting View | |
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Indian Wars on the Great Plains | |
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George Bent, Cheyenne Indian, Decries the Massacre of Native Americans by the Colorado Militia at Sand Creek (1864), 19051918 | |
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Colonel Henry Carrington Details the Destruction and Mutilation of Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman's Unit (1866), 1867 | |
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General | |
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Lieutenant Frederick Benteen Depicts the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 | |
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Iron Hawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux/Lahota Warrior, Recalls the Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876), 1932 | |
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General George Crook Defends the Indians, 1884 | |
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Western Artist Frederic Remington Covers Black Troopers Chasing Apaches Through the Arizona Territory, 1889 | |
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George Armstrong Custer: A Reckless Commander Brought Down by His Own Mistakes | |
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George Armstrong Custer: A Great Commander Overwhelmed by a Larger Force | |
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Armed Forces and an Expanding World Power | |
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General Emory Upton Urges a European Style Army (1880), 1904 | |
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Admiral Mahan Champions Sea Power Through Battleships, 1890 | |
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Boasts of His "Rough Riders" at San Juan Hill (1898), 1899 | |
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Sergeant William Payne, a Black Trooper, Portrays Black Regulars Helping to Take San Juan Hill (1898), 1899 | |
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Private Frederick Presher Describes the U.S. Army's Abuse of Noncombatants in a Filipino Village, 1901 | |
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Captain J. Hartman Submits an Official Account of the Same Incident, 1901 | |
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Essays | |
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Mahan Planned for the Wrong Kind of War and the Wrong Kind of Ships StuartcRussell F. Weigley | |
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American Racism and Lawlessness in the Philippines | |
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Inherent Problems in Counter-Guerrilla Warfare | |
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World War I: The Challenge of Modern War | |
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President Woodrow Wilson Wants a Drafted Army, Not the U.S. Volunteers, 1917 | |
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Senator Robert LaFollette Opposes the Draft, 1917 | |
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Laura Frost, a U.S. Army Nurse, Recalls Her Experiences at the Front in France (1918), 19181997 | |
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General John J. Pershing Insists on a Separate American Army in France, 1918 | |
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American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Combat Instructions Stress Open-Field Tactics, Not Trench Warfare, 1918 | |
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Theodore Jones, an AEF Artilleryman, Recounts His First Exposure to Combat, 1918 | |
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General George Marshall Describes Some Inadequacies of the AEF (1918), 1930 | |
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Essays | |
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The Wisdom of a Separate American Army | |
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A Separate American A | |
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