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Articles 1951 - 1980 of 8423
Full-Text Articles in Military History
Major Raoul Lufbery Predicts Big Battles Between Air Fleets
Major Raoul Lufbery Predicts Big Battles Between Air Fleets
Raoul Lufbery Newspapers
A two page newspaper article interviewing Raoul Lufbery where he discusses his predictions for the end of the war. He specifically highlights the growing importance of airplanes. "aviation in all [the Armed Forces] branches will undoubtedly play it's big role, and certainly a larger role than ever before..."
American Flyer Brings Down His 12th Enemy Plane
American Flyer Brings Down His 12th Enemy Plane
Raoul Lufbery Newspapers
A newspaper article discussing the twelfth German plane that Raoul Lufbery shot out of the sky.
An Analysis Of U.S. Custom And Border Protection’S Tripartite Mexico Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
An Analysis Of U.S. Custom And Border Protection’S Tripartite Mexico Border Security Policy, Terence Garrett
Political Science Faculty Publications
The Custom and Border Protection (CBP) border security policy was explicitly presented by former Acting Commissioner of CBP, David Aguilar, in testimony before the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) on April 4, 2017 in testimony on the subject of “Fencing Along the Southwest Border.” Important for discussion here are the key components of the DHS/CBP/Border Patrol’s strategy, or sets of policies, laying forth elements of the border walls (including barriers, fences), personnel, and technology in order to hinder, or intercept, undocumented migrants (homo sacer) from entering the United States illegally—all socially constructed. Aguilar …
Getting In Touch With The Civil War: An Interview With Jason Phillips, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Getting In Touch With The Civil War: An Interview With Jason Phillips, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Today we are speaking with Jason Phillips, Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University. He is the author of Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future (Oxford University Press, 2018), Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (University of Georgia Press, 2007), and the editor of Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (Louisiana State University Press, 2013). His current research explores the material culture of Civil War America. [excerpt]
Civil War Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate to the Civil War. Included are letters and diaries of soldiers and civilians, military records and papers, and other, mostly unpublished material. Our collections are particularly strong on Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Civil War history and in documenting the experiences of Kentuckians or those who passed through Kentucky and surrounding states during the war.
難於登天 Harder Than Climbing To Heaven: Fighter Aviation In The Republic Of China Air Force (1928-1994), Jordan Andy Li
難於登天 Harder Than Climbing To Heaven: Fighter Aviation In The Republic Of China Air Force (1928-1994), Jordan Andy Li
History
A study of the founding and evolution of the Republic of China (ROC) Air Force's fighter aviation from 1928-1994. Topics include Chinese Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Chinese Civil War, and cross-Taiwan Strait relations throughout the Cold War.
Reconsidering Sun Tzu, John F. Sullivan
Reconsidering Sun Tzu, John F. Sullivan
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Soldiers And Sailors Memorial Hall: A Place For Quiet Reflection, Carol Reardon
Soldiers And Sailors Memorial Hall: A Place For Quiet Reflection, Carol Reardon
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the Civil War select a single meaningful place related to the war and narrate its significance. Included here are meditations on a wide assortment of places--Devil's Den at Gettysburg, Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, the statue of William T. Sherman in New York's …
When The Hurlyburly's Done / When The Battle's Lost And Won: Service, Suffering, And Survival Of Civil War And Great War Veterans, Ian A. Isherwood
When The Hurlyburly's Done / When The Battle's Lost And Won: Service, Suffering, And Survival Of Civil War And Great War Veterans, Ian A. Isherwood
Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty Publications
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil War veterans. As local citizens demonstrated their patriotism—notably with the Kaiser hanging in effigy—the old soldiers helped keep the pace for two thousand citizens who turned out to vigorously support the Great War. It was no doubt a moving moment, the nation's largest veteran demographic encouraging and supporting the next generation of soldiers to fight for cause and country in a very different war waged on a very different continent. Though fifty years separated the trenches of Petersburg from those of the western …
Commentary And Reply, Usawc Press
Commentary And Reply, Usawc Press
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Analogical Thinking: The Sine Qua Non For Using History Well, Richard A. Lacquement Jr.
Analogical Thinking: The Sine Qua Non For Using History Well, Richard A. Lacquement Jr.
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Anti-Access Strategies In The Pacific: The United States And China, Sam J. Tangredi
Anti-Access Strategies In The Pacific: The United States And China, Sam J. Tangredi
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Russia's A2/Ad Capabilities: Real And Imagined, Keir Giles, Mathieu Boulegue
Russia's A2/Ad Capabilities: Real And Imagined, Keir Giles, Mathieu Boulegue
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Human Security In The Arctic: Implications For The United States Army, C. Anthony Pfaff
Human Security In The Arctic: Implications For The United States Army, C. Anthony Pfaff
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Projecting Stability: A Deployable Nato Police Command, Massimo Pani, Karen J. Finkenbinder
Projecting Stability: A Deployable Nato Police Command, Massimo Pani, Karen J. Finkenbinder
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews, Usawc Press
Book Reviews, Usawc Press
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
From The Editor, Antulio Echevarria Ii
From The Editor, Antulio Echevarria Ii
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
Review: Calculus Of Violence, Cameron T. Sauers
Review: Calculus Of Violence, Cameron T. Sauers
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
It seems counterintuitive to imagine the bloodiest conflict in American history being worse, but Sheehan-Dean argues that the death toll could have been dramatically higher without both sides’ emphasis on restraint, as dictated by the laws of war. Most of the book is spent examining “how people on both sides justified the lethal violence of conflict and when, how, and why they balanced cruelty and destruction.” Despite the rules of war, however, Civil War participants, like all humans, were contradictory. Sometimes they acted instinctively and spontaneously, while at other times, their actions were the result of deeply seated ideology. The …
Index To Bruce Stewart Interview, Elisia Harder
Index To Bruce Stewart Interview, Elisia Harder
Linfield University Public History Project: World War II as Experience and Memory
This index provides a time-stamped overview of the subjects discussed during an oral history interview with Bruce Stewart, Linfield College class of 1949.
Annotations On - Experience, Labours, And Sufferings Of Rev. James Jenkins, Of The South Carolina Conference. Printed For The Author. 1842., John Benjamin Burroughs
Annotations On - Experience, Labours, And Sufferings Of Rev. James Jenkins, Of The South Carolina Conference. Printed For The Author. 1842., John Benjamin Burroughs
HCAC Research
The Rev. James Jenkins was born in the Britton’s Neck section of the old Georgetown Judicial District in 1764. This article contains selected entries of his journal which recount some of his experiences during the American Revolutionary War in the area that is now Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Marion, Dillon and Florence Counties in South Carolina. He and his older brothers were part of the famed Gen. Francis Marion’s Brigade, which thwarted the British Southern Strategy in South Carolina. By keeping the revolution alive in South Carolina, the work of Marion’s Brigade contributed greatly to the ultimate result of the British …
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3332. Letters of George Messer to his wife Lottie, written while serving with the 107th Illinois Infantry. Writing on 7-9 December 1862 from Camp Waller near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where part of his regiment is guarding the railroad, he describes the camp and includes a sketch; he also writes of two desertions, of procuring some fresh meat, of an officer who has contracted a venereal disease, and of the local populace who he finds “at least one half century behind the times.” In a letter of 25 July …
Gettysburg Heartthrobs: The 10 Most Attractive Officers, Cameron T. Sauers
Gettysburg Heartthrobs: The 10 Most Attractive Officers, Cameron T. Sauers
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
While the author received many names that deserved to be on this list, he regrettably had to choose only ten. That being said, please sit back, relax, and prepare to fall in love with the officers of Gettysburg this Valentine’s Day.
Digital-Lee Archived: An Interview With Colin Woodward, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Digital-Lee Archived: An Interview With Colin Woodward, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Today we are speaking with Colin Woodward, historian and editor of the Lee Family Digital Archive at Stratford Hall. He holds a Ph.D. in History and is the author of Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War, which was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2014. He also maintains an active history and pop culture podcast entitled “Amerikan Rambler,” which is available at www.amerikanrambler.libsyn.com and on iTunes. Dr. Woodward is presently working a book called Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash. [excerpt]
“Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past”: Fitzgerald’S Forgotten Civil War Literature, Cameron T. Sauers
“Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past”: Fitzgerald’S Forgotten Civil War Literature, Cameron T. Sauers
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
“So, we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” These are the brilliant last lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, lines that speak to the fallibility of Gatsby’s American Dream and his inescapable, yet simultaneously unreachable, past. The legendary ending sentence in The Great Gatsby has captured me since I first read the book as a freshman in high school and made me want to read every Fitzgerald book I could find. The more I read, the more I realized the unique implications this famous last line had for Fitzgerald’s own …
Redfern, Alfred Francis, 1848-1913 (Sc 3327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Redfern, Alfred Francis, 1848-1913 (Sc 3327), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3327. Letter, 24 December 1863, to his parents from Alfred Redfern, serving at Point Isabel, Kentucky with the 91st Indiana Volunteers. He reports orders to march to Knoxville, Tennessee, despite his hopes of remaining at the now-fortified camp until he is mustered out. He also reports on receipt of money and other gifts from home, sending some of his pay to a friend in New Albany, and the likelihood of a poor Christmas dinner of fat pork and crackers.
Traitors In The Service Of The Lord: The Role Of Church And Clergy In Appalachia's Civil War, Sheilah Elwardani
Traitors In The Service Of The Lord: The Role Of Church And Clergy In Appalachia's Civil War, Sheilah Elwardani
Masters Theses
Studies of the guerrilla war in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains reveal repeated instances of violence and threats directed at the pastors of mountain churches. Instances of churches being burned, pastors and laymen beaten and at times murdered are sprinkled throughout the primary source materials. The question raised here is why were pastors and specific churches being targeted for violence? The church was the center of the life for secluded Appalachian communities, church leadership carried tremendous weight in influencing loyalties. Research focused solely on the Dunkard Church in Floyd County, Virginia revealed that amidst a particularly violent guerrilla war, …
Interview With Erica Uszak: Scholarship Recipient For 2018 Cwi Summer Conference, Civil War Institute
Interview With Erica Uszak: Scholarship Recipient For 2018 Cwi Summer Conference, Civil War Institute
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Recently, the CWI reached out to Erica Uszak ’22 to reflect on her experience at the 2018 CWI Summer Conference. Uszak, currently a freshman at Gettysburg College studying History and the Civil War, was one of ten high school students to receive a scholarship to attend the conference. Any high school student with an interest in history is eligible to apply for the High School Scholarship. [excerpt]
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Messer, George, 1833-1863 (Sc 3312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 3312. Letter, 24 February 1863, of George Messer to his wife Lottie, written while encamped with the 107th Illinois Infantry near Woodsonville, Hart County, Kentucky. His news of camp life includes the engagement of an African American cook and a rumor of impending attack by John Hunt Morgan’s guerrillas, which he dismisses in light of the camp’s superior defenses. He describes holding money for safekeeping on behalf of his comrades, and of searching for vegetables to treat an outbreak of scurvy. He also discusses various matters relating to home, including deserters, honoring …
Hebron, John L., 1842-1914 (Sc 3323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hebron, John L., 1842-1914 (Sc 3323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript for Manuscripts Small Collection 3323. Letter, 20 February 1862, from John L. Hebron to his mother in Steubenville, Ohio. He reports his regiment’s arrival on the outskirts of Bowling Green, Kentucky, taken from Confederate forces “without firing a gun,” and describes attempting to cross a ruined bridge, his living quarters in a deserted house, and available food supplies. In a 25 February postscript from Nashville, Tennessee, he writes of the troops’ continued lack of success in crossing the river into Bowling Green, and mentions reports that the Confederates plan to “make a stand” south of Nashville. …
Minton, John Dean, Sr., 1921-2008 (Mss 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Minton, John Dean, Sr., 1921-2008 (Mss 660), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 660. Letters written by John D. Minton, Sr. to his brother, Layton Minton, while both were in military service during World War II. The collection also contains a small amount of Minton family correspondence and some vocational agriculture notebooks kept by the brothers while in high school.