My colleague Hasan Kwame Jeffries, who visited the Army War College late in May to discuss Black self defense groups with the students in my “American Insurgencies” course — they loved him, by the way — has just published his first book. From the New York University Press web site:
Early in 1966, African Americans [...]
Today is the 146th Anniversary of Day 1 of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. Some weeks ago, Brett Schulte at TOCWOC (The Order of the Civil War Obsessively Compulsed) asked a number of Civil War bloggers to list their top ten Gettysburg books. Here’s my contribution, cross-posted from Civil Warriors. Ethan Rafuse and Eric [...]
Cross posted from Civil Warriors
I just learned that Billie Cranford has died.
I realize that probably none of you know the name, but if you know me or my work, then in a way you know Billie. She’s was my ninth grade English teacher, though that description doesn’t begin to convey who she really was [...]
Cross-posted from Civil Warriors
On Saturday I had the privilege of attending the funeral of Jay Luvaas, a distinguished military historian whose first book, The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance, remains a standard work in the field a half century after its publication in 1959.
Luvaas passed away on January [...]
HISTORIAN ALLAN R. MILLETT
TO RECEIVE 2008 PRITZKER MILITARY LIBRARY
LITERATURE AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
$100,000 Award to be Presented at October 4, 2008 Gala in Chicago
Chicago, IL (June 23, 2008) – Allan R. Millett has been selected to receive the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 honorarium, citation and [...]
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The fact that he’s rated #1 at RateMyProfessors.com has not prevented Rob Citino from striking back at some of the comments he’s received.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Sure, we all know that Robert M. Citino (The Quest for Decisive Victory, The German Way of War, Death of the Wehrmacht) is one of the best and most productive military historians working today. But who knew he tops the charts at RateMyProfessors.com?
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Dr. Larry I. Bland, editor of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, historian, author, and teacher, died Tuesday, November 27, in Lexington, Virginia. He was 67 years old.
Generally recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the life and career of George Catlett Marshall, Bland was working on the sixth volume of the Marshall [...]
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ohio State selects Petraeus aide as military history chair
Col. Peter R. Mansoor is influential advisor in shaping “surge” strategy in Iraq
COLUMBUS — The Mershon Center for International Security Studies and the Department of History at The Ohio State University are proud to announce that they have selected Col. Peter R. Mansoor as the [...]
Military historians commonly complain about the hostility they perceive from historians in other fields. But this is a pretty dramatic example. From the New York Sun, April 30, 2006:
Mark Moyar doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of a disappointed job seeker. He is an Eagle Scout who earned a summa cum laude degree from [...]
Sunday, September 3, 2006
John A. Lynn, professor of history at the University of Illinois, recently sent this group email to a number of his former grad students and present colleagues, including me:
Hi,
It never rains but it pours, I guess. While in Germany at the meeting of the International Commission of Military History, I learned that in coordination with [...]
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John A. Lynn is president of the United States Commission on Military History and vice president of the Society for Military History. More importantly, he is the grandfather of Helena Grace Lynn, who entered the world “at 12:47 pm on 3/20/06. She is 8 lbs. 5 on., 21 inches … and as beautiful a [...]
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