military history

• Military history

• The School of Advanced Military Studies: An Accident of History

THE BEGINNINGS OF the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) are more than 25 years old now. Some might find it incredible that it is so young, bu...

• Military Review
• Vol. 89 Nbr. 4, July 2009

• Terrorism as warfare: the lessons of military history.

Terrorism is a form of military warfare that can only be eradicated by the armed forces. As a military tactic, terrorism aims to kill soldiers and lower the morale of citizens. To combat terrorism, the US armed forces should attack its military counterparts in countries sponsoring global terrorism. By focusing on military targets, civilian lives and properties are spared. The US armed forces can also conduct commando raids to seize and execute enemy leaders in foreign countries.

• World Policy Journal
• Vol. 13 Nbr. 4, December 1996

• Military commissions throughout U.S. history: military commissions have a long and irregular history of being created by federal authorities, and U.S. courts have been just as inconsistent in rulings on their constitutionality.

Military commissions have always been controversial in U.S. history, and no more so than in the past 10 years. Military commissions have traditionally...

• The New American
• October 10, 2011

• Soul of Kansas: The Military's Mark On Kansas History

When you think of the military and Kansas today, most thoughts probably go to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Kansan who left Abilene to become the supreme Allied commander in World War II, overseeing the planning and execution of the Allied invasion of Europe, then becoming the 35th president of the United States. But you have to begin further back, to the early 19th century, to really understand how the military has helped shape our state history and how today's military continues to be part of the soul of Kansas.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• November 05, 2011

• Military History for Modern Kitchens

THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR loomed when Sarah Borginis followed her husband through the harsh frontier into what is now Texas. She enlisted as a cook, got issued a musket, fired it expertly and was made an honorary colonel by Gen. Zachary Taylor. As America's boundaries pushed westward, Eveline Alexander left New York and joined her cavalry-officer husband in 1866 as he battled American Indians in what is now Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. A few years later, Civil War bride Libbie Custer traveled 500 miles deep into the Dakota Territory alongside her husband, Lt. Col. George A. Custer. In a fort surrounded by wilderness, she made a home away from home.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• May 27, 2009

• Archives and History Library to Present Lecture On Military History Research

The West Virginia Archives and History Library of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History will continue its series of after-hours lectures from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9. In recognition of Veterans Day, the session, entitled "Researching Military History," will be conducted by Terry Lowry, staff historian for archives and history. The program will take place in the library at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex in Charleston. All sessions are free to the public.

• Charleston Gazette
• November 05, 2010

• The outlook of the culture of military security: history and modernity.

The variety of forms of being has always been and is the result of numerous ways of people's adaptation to the various circumstances in which they eme...

• Military Thought
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 3, July 2009

• Military History Talk Set at Umaine On Aprl 25

ORONO - John Lynn, a professor of military history at Northwestern University, will speak at 3:45 p.m. Monday, April 25, in the Bodwell Lounge at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Lynn's topic will be "The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: The Apparent Demise and Surprising Resurrection of Academic Military History.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 06, 2011

• Black History Month Celebration / 2010 Blacks in the Military

History records Crispus Attacks as the first to die in the Revolutionary War but was he a conscripted soldier, was Attacks right in his fight? Was he really fighting for "his" freedom in that war? Peter Salem and Paul Whipple also fought during that war. However, Nat Turner was definitely not fighting as a conscripted soldier, but he was definitely fighting for "his" freedom. Shouldn't Turner be heralded the same way that Attacks is? History shows that Turner was "really" fighting for "his own" freedom? The difference between those two men was the mindset; and that is, who and what did they believe they were fighting for? The answer can be ascertained through the chronicles of the life of the Black soldier. He has fought in every American War, often for someone else's freedom only to be...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• March 12, 2010

• Blacks Through History Served Heroically in Military

During the global conflicts of the first half of the 20th century, U.S. servicemen fought in Europe for the first time in the nation's history. African-Americans were among the troops committed to combat in World War I and World War II, even though they and other Black Americans were denied the full blessings of the freedom for which the United States had pledged to fight. Traditional racist views about the use of Black troops in combat initially excluded African-Americans from the early recruiting efforts and much of the actual combat in both wars. Nonetheless, large numbers of African-Americans still volunteered to fight for their country in 1917-18 and 1940-45. Once again, many Black servicemen hoped their military contribution and sacrifice would prove to their white countrymen that...

• New Pittsburgh Courier; City Edition
• August 14, 2009