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Forget August 1914, if you want to understand World War I 5 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
We are one year from the centennial of World War I, and by this time next year, there will be streams of articles and books on how the war started. Some believe it was “,” others claim that the , and ...
Bring Your Black Friends to Civil War Events 2 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
After several people recently lamented the lack of black people at Civil War events along with potential reasons why this is the case, Jimmy Price described an experience at the macro level that I hav...
Counterinsurgency Prior to Clausewitz 30 Jul 2013 | 04:04 pm
We need to expand the literature and case studies we use to analyze counterinsurgency to include ancient and medieval periods. In the recent “Thinking and Writing about COIN,” John T. Fishel and Edwin...
Will Americans Support War on Nameless Enemies? 29 Jul 2013 | 05:23 am
In (1982), Harry G. Summers, Jr. bemoaned LBJ’s “conscious decision not to mobilize the American people—to invoke the national will—for the Vietnam War,” specifically not declaring war. Summers belie...
The Three Types of Civil War Buffs 23 Jul 2013 | 06:28 pm
When friends and coworkers discover I frequently visit Civil War battlefields, they often ask me if I reenact. I do not. Never had the desire. Of course, this leads to the next question—then what the ...
John Cummings’s “Harvest of Death” Location 10 Jul 2013 | 03:55 pm
For nearly two years, John Cummings has gone through a discovery process to find the location of one of the most iconic images from Gettysburg, and the Civil war—Alexander Gardner’s “The Harvest of De...
The 150th of Pickett’s Charge from the Peter Rogers House 9 Jul 2013 | 04:37 pm
Roughly 15,000 people were there for the 150th of Pickett’s Charge. After walking these fields numerous times, I can confidently say you just cannot get to a spot where you can see all the highs and l...
Why I Keep Going Back to Gettysburg 28 Jun 2013 | 02:04 am
Next week, I will spend five days and four nights at Gettysburg. Over the past few years, I have been there more than two dozen times. Every time I visit, I bring people with me—family, friends, cowor...
Between Niche and Broad History Subjects 27 Jun 2013 | 06:00 am
I have now read two different historians recently taking different positions on niche and broad-focused histories. In the realm of niche subjects, in (2012), Jeremy Black points out, [Academics] have...
8 Books for the Military History Undergrad 24 Jun 2013 | 04:57 pm
The size of my library ebbs and flows, but it is currently pushing 600 books. I collected most of them during the past four years, as I worked on a military history degree. The focus was vast, coverin...
