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HIST 331 - Selected Topics in U.S. Military History

Selected Readings

Module 1

First in the Hearts of His Countrymen: The Extraordinary Leadership of George Washington
From the The Macksey Journal (Vol. 2 Art. 81)

Module 2

Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief
From the Magazine of History (Vol. 23 Iss. 1)
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen
From the National Bureau of Economic Research
Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief
From the Magazine of History (Vol. 23 Iss. 1)
FORGING A NEW IDENTITY: THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF DIVERSITY IN CIVIL WAR COMBAT UNITS FOR BLACK SLAVES AND FREEMEN
From the National Bureau of Economic Research
The Black Man in the Civil War
Nationalism as a Contributing Factor in the American Civil War
From Defense Technical Information Center (ADA425338)
Causation and the American Civil War. Two Appraisals
From History and Theory (Vol. 1, No. 2)
Reviewed Work: The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp
From Naval War College Review (Vol. 46, No. 3)
Some Causal Accounts of the American Civil War
From Daedalus (Vol. 91, No. 3 Current Work and Controversies—2)
Review: Civil War Revisionism
From Reviews in American History (Vol. 7, No. 2)
What Twenty-First-Century Historians Have Said about the Causes of Disunion: A Civil War Sesquicentennial Review of the Recent Literature
From The Journal of American History (Vol. 99, No. 2)
The Fundamental Cause of the Civil War: Egocentric Sectionalism
From The Journal of Southern History (Vol. 7, No. 1)
Revisionism Reinvented?: The Antiwar Turn in Civil War Scholarship
From Journal of the Civil War Era (Vol. 3, No. 2)

Option 1: Lincoln Leadership and Politics

Creating a Military Image: Lincoln as Commander in Chief
From Magazine of History (Vol. 23, Iss. 1)
The impact of new technology on President Abraham Lincoln's military leadership during the Civil War
A dissertation from Salve Regina University
LINCOLN ON STRATEGY
From Defense Technical Information Center (ADA #328881)
Strategic Synchronization of Political Objectives and Military Strategy: Grant, Lincoln, and Operations to End the Civil War
From Defense Technical Information Center (AD1158971)

Option 2: Medical Advancements

Military Medical History: The American Civil War
From Magazine of History (Vol. 19 Iss. 5)
Medical Advancements of the United States Civil War
From Waterloo Historical Review (Vol. 9)
Disease & Infection in the American Civil War
From The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 60 No. 4)
The Lauramann Howe Russell Papers: a Window into Critical Care Medicine during the American Civil War
From Journal of Anesthesia History (Vol. 3 Iss. 4)
History of Wound Care: The Wound Care Nurse’s Journey Part 1: The Civil War
From Today's Wound Clinic
Civil War Medicine: An Overview of Medicine
From eHistory at The Ohio State University
Medical and Surgical Care During the American Civil War, 1861-1865
From Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings (Vol. 29 Iss. 2)
Medicine and Surgery in the American Civil War
From Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

Option 3: The Role of Industry

Industry and Economy during the Civil War
From the National Park Service
Did the Civil War Retard Industrialization?
From The Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Vol. 48 No. 2)
Interchangeable Parts Reexamined: The Private Sector of the American Arms Industry on the Eve of the Civil War
From Technology and Culture (Vol. 19 No. 4)
“It would be impossible to estimate the value of these works...” Mass Production at Springfield Armory during the American Civil War
From Arms & Armour (Vol. 14 Iss. 1)
Industry and Supply in the U.S. Civil War: How We Became America: The Untold Story
From American Battlefield Trust
ECONOMICS AND THE CIVIL WAR
From History Central

Module 3

Chemical Warfare and Medical Response During World War I
From the American Journal of Public Health (Vol. 98 Iss. 4)
Terror Weapons: The British Experience of Gas and Its Treatment in the First World War
From the War in History (Vol. 21 Iss. 3)

Module 4

Dialectics of War: An Essay in the Social Theory of Total War and Peace
From the SSRN
The Social Types of War
From the American Journal of Sociology (Vol. 46 Iss. 4)
Recent Literature on Truman's Atomic Bomb Decision: A Search for Middle Ground
From Diplomatic History (Vol. 29 No. 2)
Review of The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan and Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
From the Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History (Vol. 6 Iss. 2)
Reclaiming Realism for the Left: Gar Alperovitz and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
From the Advances in Historical Studies (Vol. 2 No. 2)
THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB
From Asian Studies
On War by General Carl von Clausewitz
Adopted from Project Gutenberg
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ AND HIS RELEVANCE AS A CONTEMPORARY THEORIST
From the Defense Technical Information Center (Accession # 468496)
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs: Analysis of Harry Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bombs on the Japanese Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Air Power

AIR POWER in THREE WARS (WWII, KOREA, VIETNAM)
From the Defense Technical Information Center
Command in Air War. Centralized Versus Decentralized Control of Combat Airpower
From the Defense Technical Information Center
Command in Air War. Centralized Versus Decentralized Control of Combat Airpower
From the Defense Technical Information Center
The Ijmuiden Power Plant Raids of WWII (World War II) Airpower Misapplied
From Defense Technical Information Center
Strategic Paralysis: An Airpower Theory for the Present
From the Defense Technical Information Center
Airpower: Myths and Facts
From the Defense Technical Information Center

Module 5

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviet Story
From Foreign Policy (No. 72, Autumn 1988)
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Study of Its Strategic Context
From the Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 87 No. 4)
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Reading the Lessons Correctly
From the Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 98 No. 3)
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 66 No. 1)
Commentary: The Cuban Missile Crisis
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 68 No. 4)
The Soviet View: An Interview with Sergo Mikoyan
From Diplomatic History (Vol. 14 No. 2)
Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
From International Security (Vol. 14 No. 3)
Cuban Missile Crisis
From the Naval History and Heritage Command

Cold War - Threat of Communism

The Impact of the Korean War on the Cold War
From the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 24 No. 4)
The Continuation of History: Power Transition Theory and the End of the Cold War
From the Journal of Peace Research (Vol. 34 No. 1)
U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 71 Iss. 5)
The Future of the American Pacifier
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 80 Iss. 5)
What Vietnam Teaches Us: A new look at the brilliant yet flawed McGeorge Bundy illuminates mistakes we're still making today
U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead
From Foreign Affairs (Vol.71 No. 5)
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War?
From Parameters (Vol. 35 No. 1)
The Cold War: a military history (Book review)
From European Review of History (Vol. 25 Iss. 6)
Origins of the Cold War
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 46 No. 1)

Module 8

Desert Shield & Desert Storm

The U.S. Decision to Launch Operation Desert Storm: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis
From Armed Forces & Society (Vol. 25 No. 2)
Comparing rational choice and prospect theory analyses: The US decision to launch operation ‘desert storm’, January 1991
From Journal of Strategic Studies (Vol. 24 Iss. 3)
Desert Storm Redux?
From The Middle East Journal (Vol. 47 Iss. 3)
Desert Storm and the Future of Conventional Forces
From Foreign Affairs (Vol. 70 No. 2)
What We Should Have Learned in Desert Storm, But Didn't
From Defense Technical Information Center (Accession # ADA331703)
Defining the Operational End State: Operation Desert Storm
From Defense Technical Information Center (Accession # ADA314310)
The Meaning of Victory in Operation Desert Storm: A Review Essay
From Political Science Quarterly (Vol. 108 Iss. 2)
Desert Storm and the Lessons of Learning
From Defense Technical Information Center (Accession # ADA529112)
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
From Defense Technical Information Center (Accession # ADA524388)

Afghanistan

Framing the War Against Terrorism: US Newspaper Editorials and Military Action in Afghanistan
From International Communication Gazette (Vol. 66 Iss. 2)
A Tale of Two Wars: Public Opinion on the U.S. Military Interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq
From Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 40 Iss. 4)
Development and political legitimacy: the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan
From Conflict, Security & Development (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
The Future of Afghanistan
From Parameters (Vol. 36 No. 1)
Why the U.S. Military Lost Afghanistan
From Armed Forces & Society (2022 Special Issue)
U.S. Military Drawdown in Afghanistan: Frequently Asked Questions
From Defensive Technical Information Center (Succession # AD1122696)
Consequences of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
From Rand Corporation (Jan. 1, 2019)