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Full-Text Articles in History
An Incident In Pocheon: The Death Of Sapper Gilles Ducasse, Andrew Burtch
An Incident In Pocheon: The Death Of Sapper Gilles Ducasse, Andrew Burtch
Canadian Military History
The Canadian War Museum supports developmental research. This article is a by-product of the author’s continuing research into Canadian casualty records of the Korean War. This research helps to create a better picture of the makeup of the Canadian Army Special Force in Korea. When completed, it will shed greater light on when, where, and under what circumstances the 516 Canadians who are listed in the Korean War Book of Remembrance died. The research consists of a full review of the service records of Canadian military personnel who died in Korea or in support of the war from 1950 to …
Death At Licourt Revisited, Cameron Pulsifer
Death At Licourt Revisited, Cameron Pulsifer
Canadian Military History
New Information comes to light about the five fatalities that occurred in the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade on the River Somme on 25 March 1918, as discussed in an article published in 2002.
Inside The Civil War Defenses Of Washington: An Interview With Steve T. Phan, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Inside The Civil War Defenses Of Washington: An Interview With Steve T. Phan, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Over the course of this year, we’ll be interviewing some of the speakers from the upcoming 2018 CWI conference about their talks. Today we are speaking with Steve T. Phan, a Park Ranger and historian at the Civil War Defenses of Washington. Prior to his arrival at CWDW, Steve worked as an intern and park guide at Richmond National Battlefield Park, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, and Rock Creek Park. A military history scholar of the Civil War era, Steve’s research focuses on military occupation, operational command, fortifications, and the Western Theater during the Civil War. He is the …
Conceiving And Executing Operation Gauntlet: The Canadian-Led Raid On Spitzbergen, 1941, Ryan Dean, P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Conceiving And Executing Operation Gauntlet: The Canadian-Led Raid On Spitzbergen, 1941, Ryan Dean, P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Canadian Military History
In August and September 1941, Canadian Brigadier Arthur Potts led a successful but little known combined operation by a small task force of Canadian, British, and Norwegian troops in the Spitzbergen (Svalbard) archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. After extensive planning and political conversations between Allied civil and military authorities, the operation was re-scaled so that a small, mixed task force would destroy mining and communications infrastructure on this remote cluster of islands, repatriate Russian miners and their families to Russia, and evacuate Norwegian residents to Britain. While a modest non-combat mission, Operation Gauntlet represented Canada’s first expeditionary operation in the …
Killing, Combat And The Princess Patricia’S Canadian Light Infantry: Legendary Soldiers’ Stories Of The First World War – 1914-1918, Ryan B. Flavelle Cd
Killing, Combat And The Princess Patricia’S Canadian Light Infantry: Legendary Soldiers’ Stories Of The First World War – 1914-1918, Ryan B. Flavelle Cd
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This study interrogates the stories and legends of six soldiers who served in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry during the First World War, and the ways in which they described their primary occupation as soldiers, killing enemy combatants. It asks a fundamentally important question; how and why do men kill at war? Soldiers tended to narrate their descriptions of killing from the perspective of an innocuous reporter, and downplay their agency in the killing act. They also, often, framed their descriptions of killing in terms of revenge for the loss of comrades, or atrocities committed by the enemy. Alternatively, …
The Poor Man’S Fight: Mercenary Soldiers In The Civil War: An Interview With William Marvel, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
The Poor Man’S Fight: Mercenary Soldiers In The Civil War: An Interview With William Marvel, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Over the course of this year, we’ll be interviewing some of the speakers from the upcoming 2018 CWI conference about their talks. Today we are speaking with William Marvel, an independent scholar of mid-19th-century American History. Marvel is the author of eighteen books, including most recently, Lincoln’s Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers, which is due for release by LSU Press in the early fall of 2018. Some of Marvel’s additional publications include: Lincoln’s Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton (UNC Press, 2015), A Place Called Appomattox (UNC Press, 2000), and Andersonville: The Last Depot (UNC Press, 1994), for which …
Hill, John W., 1834-1922 (Sc 3165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hill, John W., 1834-1922 (Sc 3165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3165. Compilation of military service and pension records of John W. Hill, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes chronologies of Hill’s Civil War service, 1864-1865, and of his disability pension application and subsequent requests for increases, 1888-1922. Also includes images of Hill, his wife, and selected documents filed in support of his application.
James Franklin Bell : Hard War In The Philippines., Daniel Michael
James Franklin Bell : Hard War In The Philippines., Daniel Michael
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis surveys the military history of the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. In particular, this thesis looks at that war through the lens of hard war as a way of war. It begins with an introduction to hard war as a concept and a historiography of the Philippine-American War and continues with an overview of the events leading up to the war. The first two chapters deal with the wider role of the U.S. Army during the war, while the third chapter examines the role of James Franklin Bell, and American officer, and his command of the Third Separate Brigade …
In The Field The Women Saved The Crop: The Women’S Land Army Of World War Ii, Denna M. Clymer
In The Field The Women Saved The Crop: The Women’S Land Army Of World War Ii, Denna M. Clymer
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Women’s Land Army brought together rural and urban sectors of the United States in a climate of national and regional crisis. By the time the country was cast into war, the agricultural sector was already caught in a downward economic spiral that drove away laborers. With demand falling, and farms propped up only by experiments in subsidy and parity, when military and industrial jobs emerged in urban areas, farm laborers became scarce. At the same time the war created jobs for men outside of the agricultural sector, farm prices recovered and demand soared, forcing farmers to look to women …
The Cold War In The Eastern Mediterranean: An Interpretive Global History, James M. Brown
The Cold War In The Eastern Mediterranean: An Interpretive Global History, James M. Brown
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis offers the first global history of the Cold War in the eastern Mediterranean. It examines the international linkages that bound Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus with superpowers, non-aligned states, and transnational movements during the second half of the twentieth century, and it considers the effects of such linkages upon the eastern Mediterranean’s domestic arenas. Throughout, it demonstrates that two forces – synthesis of outside influence alongside consolidation of internal identities – dictated the region’s experiences during the Cold War. And though the international environment furnished the conditions within which the region’s societies pursued the project of nation-building, indigenous forces …
You’Ve Got Mail: Throwback To The American Revolutionary War, Abigail K. Major
You’Ve Got Mail: Throwback To The American Revolutionary War, Abigail K. Major
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
A collection of approximately 150 Civil War era envelopes, mainly produced by Philadelphia publisher James Magee as well as the King & Baird printers, with patriotic Unionist themes is located in Gettysburg College’s Special Collections & College Archives. Of particular interest are the “throwbacks” and references to the American Revolution. The “Glorious Old Hall of Independence,” a depiction of Bunker Hill, and Mount Vernon are only a few illustrations from the collection that demonstrate this American Revolution era theme. [excerpt]
The Howell Brothers: A Costly Sacrifice On The Altar Of Freedom, Jonathan Tracey
The Howell Brothers: A Costly Sacrifice On The Altar Of Freedom, Jonathan Tracey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
This semester, I have been working on the Killed at Gettysburg digital history project, which aims to tell the story of soldiers who died at Gettysburg while also tracking their movements on a map so that they can be followed. I was given Hannibal Howell of Company C of the 76th New York Infantry, and his story proved to be a lot more than I expected. [excerpt]
Fox, Arthur Smith, 1920-1997 (Mss 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fox, Arthur Smith, 1920-1997 (Mss 624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 624. Letters, clippings, photographs, programs and other records relating to the life of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky native and Hopkins County, Kentucky teacher Arthur S. Fox, especially his service in World War II. Includes genealogical data.
The Things We Remember: Interpreting The Virginia Memorial, Olivia Ortman
The Things We Remember: Interpreting The Virginia Memorial, Olivia Ortman
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
When I was in high school, I read The Things They Carried for my English class. It is a fiction book about the Vietnam War written by a Vietnam veteran. The author, Tim O’Brien, had the life experiences to write an autobiography based on true events, but he chose fiction as his vehicle. He explains this choice in one of the chapters in his book. O’Brien stated that, in an ironic way, fiction allowed him to share more truth than reality. His made-up stories allowed him to create the feelings and meanings of the war that his real experiences couldn’t …
Warriors Of Bronze: The Virginia Monument And Remembrance Day, Zachary A. Wesley
Warriors Of Bronze: The Virginia Monument And Remembrance Day, Zachary A. Wesley
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Memory is a peculiar thing. To recall it is to remember, and there are two days dedicated to this activity in mid-November in Gettysburg. On November 18 and 19, reenactors and keynote speakers gather here to honor the sacrifices of millions of soldiers and sailors during the American Civil War. November 19 rings throughout the history of oration as the date of Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address, itself an exercise in remembrance. The recent Remembrance and Dedication Days have encouraged me to think of my work on the Virginia Monument Wayside Project in light of the celebrations. Just as much as …
“The Necessary War: Canadians Fighting The Second World War 1939–1943, Volume One (Book Review)” By Tim Cook & “Fight To The Finish: Canadians In The Second World War 1944–1945, Volume Two (Book Review)” By Tim Cook, Matthew S. Wiseman
Canadian Military History
Review of The Necessary War: Canadians Fighting the Second World War 1939–1943, Volume One & Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War 1944–1945, Volume Two by Tim Cook.
“Crisis And Control: The Militarization Of Protest Policing (Book Review)” By Lesley J. Wood, Tyler Wentzell
“Crisis And Control: The Militarization Of Protest Policing (Book Review)” By Lesley J. Wood, Tyler Wentzell
Canadian Military History
Review of Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing by Lesley J. Wood.
“Monty’S Functional Doctrine: Combined Arms Doctrine In British 21st Army Group In Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Book Review)” By Charles Forrester., David Stubbs
Canadian Military History
Review of Monty’s Functional Doctrine: Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 by Charles Forrester.
“Combat Mission Kandahar: The Canadian Experience In Afghanistan (Book Review)” By T. Robert Fowler, Craig Leslie Mantle
“Combat Mission Kandahar: The Canadian Experience In Afghanistan (Book Review)” By T. Robert Fowler, Craig Leslie Mantle
Canadian Military History
Review of Combat Mission Kandahar: The Canadian Experience in Afghanistan by T. Robert Fowler
“Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’S Warriors Came Of Age To Defeat The German Army In World War I (Book Review)” By Mitchell Yockelson, John R. Heckman
“Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’S Warriors Came Of Age To Defeat The German Army In World War I (Book Review)” By Mitchell Yockelson, John R. Heckman
Canadian Military History
Review of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson
“A Small Price To Pay: Consumer Culture On The Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945 (Book Review)” By Graham Broad, Daniel German
“A Small Price To Pay: Consumer Culture On The Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945 (Book Review)” By Graham Broad, Daniel German
Canadian Military History
Review of A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-1945 by Graham Broad
“Broken Promises: A History Of Conscription In Canada Revised Edition (Book Review)” By J.L. Granatstein And J.M. Hitsman, Caroline D’Amours
“Broken Promises: A History Of Conscription In Canada Revised Edition (Book Review)” By J.L. Granatstein And J.M. Hitsman, Caroline D’Amours
Canadian Military History
Review of Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (Revised Edition) by J.L. Granatstein and J.M. Hitsman
“Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill And The Vietnam Generation (Book Review)” By Mark Boulton, Alyssa Cundy
“Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill And The Vietnam Generation (Book Review)” By Mark Boulton, Alyssa Cundy
Canadian Military History
Review of Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation by Mark Boulton
“Polarity, Patriotism, And Dissent In Great War Canada, 1914-1919 (Book Review)” By Brock Millman, Tim Cook
“Polarity, Patriotism, And Dissent In Great War Canada, 1914-1919 (Book Review)” By Brock Millman, Tim Cook
Canadian Military History
Review of Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919 by Brock Millman
“Under The Blue Beret: A U.N. Peacekeeper In The Middle East (Book Review)” By Terry “Stoney” Burke, Michael K. Carroll
“Under The Blue Beret: A U.N. Peacekeeper In The Middle East (Book Review)” By Terry “Stoney” Burke, Michael K. Carroll
Canadian Military History
Review of Under the Blue Beret: A U.N. Peacekeeper in the Middle East by Terry “Stoney” Burke
The Liberation Of Groningen: The Diary Account Of Theo Polman, Greg Sennema
The Liberation Of Groningen: The Diary Account Of Theo Polman, Greg Sennema
Canadian Military History
The city of Groningen in the Netherlands was liberated by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the final month of the Second World War. While the battle was not significant to the outcome of the war, the combat was nonetheless significant for both the participants, as well as the citizens who lived through four days of fierce street fighting. Using his grandfather’s detailed diary, and with references to the War Diaries of some of the battalions involved, the author describes the experience of one family that huddled in their home through the battle, and their interactions with Canadian soldiers after …
“Our Artillery Would Smash It All Up:” Canadian Artillery During The Battle Of The Somme, September-November 1916, Brendan Hogan
“Our Artillery Would Smash It All Up:” Canadian Artillery During The Battle Of The Somme, September-November 1916, Brendan Hogan
Canadian Military History
The historiography of the First World War has produced no recent comprehensive study of the Canadian artillery, despite its importance on the battlefield. This article seeks to explain how Canadian artillery evolved on the Somme. The central conclusions of this article are that the Canadian artillery’s performance during the battle was mixed, and that a number of technological, tactical, and organizational changes, not all of them Canadian, in the Canadian Corps that we recognize from the artillery of 1917-1918 were developed during, or as a result of, the Somme.
The 2017 Fortenbaugh Lecture: “I’M A Radical Girl”, Olivia Ortman
The 2017 Fortenbaugh Lecture: “I’M A Radical Girl”, Olivia Ortman
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
In Gettysburg, we celebrate the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address in two ways: the Dedication Day ceremony and the Fortenbaugh Lecture. Every year on November 19, Gettysburg College and the Robert Fortenbaugh family invite a scholar to present their new Civil War research. This year, that scholar was Dr. Thavolia Glymph who presented her lecture titled “I’m a Radical Girl”: Enslaved and Free Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History. As the title reveals, her lecture revolved around black women unionists and their place in war efforts—a role which has often been overlooked. [excerpt]
Improving The Present By Studying The Past: Killed At Gettysburg Remembers O’Rorke And Phelps, Ryan D. Bilger
Improving The Present By Studying The Past: Killed At Gettysburg Remembers O’Rorke And Phelps, Ryan D. Bilger
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
This semester, I have had the honor of working on the Civil War Institute’s Killed at Gettysburg project, hosted at killedatgettysburg.org. The project seeks to document the lives and legacies of soldiers who died during the three days of fighting in July 1863. I am happy to be contributing to Killed at Gettysburg again, as I strongly connected with the project when I worked on it for Dr. Carmichael’s Gettysburg class last semester. [excerpt]
Little Round Top: Remembering What They Did Here, Abigail Cocco
Little Round Top: Remembering What They Did Here, Abigail Cocco
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
At Dedication Day, we remember Lincoln’s dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery. At the dedication ceremony, Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a speech that has become enshrined in the American consciousness. In just a few short minutes, Lincoln delivered a speech that evoked the spirit of the Founding Fathers, honored the sacrifice of the dead, and challenged the living to commit themselves to the young nation and the principles upon which it was founded. Through the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln shaped the collective memory of the Civil War and of American ideals. [excerpt]