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Inspirations Of War: Innovations In Prosthetics After The Civil War, Savannah A. Labbe Mar 2018

Inspirations Of War: Innovations In Prosthetics After The Civil War, Savannah A. Labbe

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In early 1861, a Confederate soldier named James Edward Hanger waited on the ground to die. Minutes before, his left leg had been shot off above the knee while he was sitting with his comrades in the loft of a barn in Philipi, Virginia. As soon as the cannonball burst through the barn, the rest of the men fled, leaving Hanger behind. He was found by enemy troops and brought to a doctor, who amputated his leg. Hanger became the first person to have a limb amputated during the Civil War. When one thinks of Civil War injuries, amputations often …


The Geopolitics Of Canadian Defense White Papers: Lofty Rhetoric And Limited Results, Bert Chapman Mar 2018

The Geopolitics Of Canadian Defense White Papers: Lofty Rhetoric And Limited Results, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

As the United States northern neighbor, Canada serves as a NATO ally and a strategic partner with Washington through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Canadian forces have fought honorably and bravely in concert with American forces in many wars. Canada's government, however, has been less consistent in promoting a credible vision of Canadian national security policy and geopolitical interests in its defense white papers. These documents have often contained idealistic rhetoric about adhering to a rules-based international order and defending freedom. In reality, Canadian governments of varying political parties have consistently failed to provide the sustained funding and …


Lee And His Lieutenants: An Interview With Keith Bohannon, Ashley Whitehead Luskey Mar 2018

Lee And His Lieutenants: An Interview With Keith Bohannon, 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 Dr. Keith Bohannon, Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, where he teaches courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Old South, and Georgia history. He is the co-editor, with Randall Allen, of Campaigning with Old Stonewall in Virginia: The Letters of Ujanirtus Allen, Company F, 21st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (LSU Press, 1998), and is the author of numerous essays, book reviews, and scholarly journal articles. Prior to …


Separate But Equal? Gettysburg’S Lincoln Cemetery, Savannah A. Labbe Mar 2018

Separate But Equal? Gettysburg’S Lincoln Cemetery, Savannah A. Labbe

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

The most well-known cemetery in Gettysburg is, of course, the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. Another cemetery in Gettysburg that receives less attention is the Lincoln Cemetery, currently located on Lincoln Lane. This small cemetery is home to around thirty Civil War veterans. Why were these men not buried in the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, a cemetery created for all veterans of the Civil War? The answer: they were African-American. While they were allowed to fight for their freedom, even in death, these men were still not equal to the white soldiers they fought beside. [excerpt]


Reviving The Past: The Battle Flag In The Confederate Memorial Period, Olivia Ortman Mar 2018

Reviving The Past: The Battle Flag In The Confederate Memorial Period, Olivia Ortman

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In the years immediately following the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag mostly disappeared from public view. In their diaries, Southerners wrote about hiding flags and other Confederate symbols for fear of Union retaliation. In most cases, Southerners intuitively understood that these symbols were now taboo, but occasionally, they stated that Union troops explicitly forbade displays of the battle flag. Some Southerners did still flaunt the flag as a means of defiance against Union troops, as mentioned in my last post, but most people quietly tucked it away. A mere five years after the war ended, though, the flag …


Black Us Army Bands And Their Bandmasters In World War I, Peter M. Lefferts Mar 2018

Black Us Army Bands And Their Bandmasters In World War I, Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

This essay sketches the story of the bands and bandmasters of the twenty seven new black army regiments which served in the U.S. Army in World War I. The new bands underwent rapid mobilization and demobilization with their regiments over 1917-1919. They were for the most part unconnected by personnel or traditions to the long-established bands of the four black regular U.S. Army regiments that preceded them and that continued to serve outside Europe during and after the Great War. Pressed to find sufficient numbers of willing and able black band leaders for these new regiments, the Army turned to …


The Long Legacy Of White Citizen Police: A Recap Of The 12th Annual Gondwe Lecture, Jeffrey L. Lauck Mar 2018

The Long Legacy Of White Citizen Police: A Recap Of The 12th Annual Gondwe Lecture, Jeffrey L. Lauck

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Last week, the Gettysburg College Africana Studies and Economics Departments sponsored the 12th annual Derrick K. Gondwe Memorial Lectureon Social and Economic Justice. This year’s lecture featured Dr. Edward E. Baptist, a Durham, North Carolina native currently teaching in the History Department at Cornell University. His lecture, “White Predators: Hunting African Americans For Profit, From the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act to Lee’s 1863 Invasion of Pennsylvania,” painted the picture of a centuries-long instinct among white Americans to police black Americans. [excerpt]


Book Reviews, Usawc Press Mar 2018

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Ltg Mafarland: Insights On Illusions Of Victory And Iraq, Russell W. Glenn Mar 2018

Ltg Mafarland: Insights On Illusions Of Victory And Iraq, Russell W. Glenn

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Countering Russian Meddling In Us Political Processes, James P. Farwell Mar 2018

Countering Russian Meddling In Us Political Processes, James P. Farwell

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Right Vs. Right: Personal Beliefs Vs. Professional Obligations, Linell A. Letendre, Martin L. Cook Mar 2018

Right Vs. Right: Personal Beliefs Vs. Professional Obligations, Linell A. Letendre, Martin L. Cook

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Countering Russian Disinformation, Timothy P. Mcgeehan Mar 2018

Countering Russian Disinformation, Timothy P. Mcgeehan

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Victory Without Casualties: Russia's Information Operations, T. S. Allen, A. J. Moore Mar 2018

Victory Without Casualties: Russia's Information Operations, T. S. Allen, A. J. Moore

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Commentary And Reply, Usawc Press Mar 2018

Commentary And Reply, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


From The Editor, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii Mar 2018

From The Editor, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Avoiding Nation-Building: From Nixon To Trump, Dominic Tierney Mar 2018

Avoiding Nation-Building: From Nixon To Trump, Dominic Tierney

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Brexit And Transatlantic Security, Arthur I. Cyr Mar 2018

Brexit And Transatlantic Security, Arthur I. Cyr

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Emory Upton And The Us Army, Paul C. Jussel Mar 2018

Emory Upton And The Us Army, Paul C. Jussel

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Brexit And The Anglo-American Security And Defense Partnership, James K. Wither Mar 2018

Brexit And The Anglo-American Security And Defense Partnership, James K. Wither

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


Us Landpower And An Indo-American Alliance, Samir Tata Mar 2018

Us Landpower And An Indo-American Alliance, Samir Tata

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.


"The First World Oil War (Book Review)" By Timothy C. Winegard, Corbin Williamson Feb 2018

"The First World Oil War (Book Review)" By Timothy C. Winegard, Corbin Williamson

Canadian Military History

Review of The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard


"Training Aces: Canada’S Air Training During The First World War (Book Review)" By Peter C. Conrad, Brian Douglas Tennyson Feb 2018

"Training Aces: Canada’S Air Training During The First World War (Book Review)" By Peter C. Conrad, Brian Douglas Tennyson

Canadian Military History

Review of Training Aces: Canada’s Air Training During the First World War by Peter C. Conrad.


"Sounding Thunder: The Stories Of Francis Pegahmagabow (Book Review)" By Brian D. Mcinnes, Eric Story Feb 2018

"Sounding Thunder: The Stories Of Francis Pegahmagabow (Book Review)" By Brian D. Mcinnes, Eric Story

Canadian Military History

Review of Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes


"Stopping The Panzers: The Untold Story Of D-Day (Book Review)" By Marc Milner, Brad St. Croix Feb 2018

"Stopping The Panzers: The Untold Story Of D-Day (Book Review)" By Marc Milner, Brad St. Croix

Canadian Military History

Review of Stopping the Panzers: The Untold Story of D-Day by Marc Milner


"Sister Soldiers Of The Great War: The Nurses Of The Canadian Army Medical Corps (Book Review)" By Cynthia Toman, Eliza Richardson Feb 2018

"Sister Soldiers Of The Great War: The Nurses Of The Canadian Army Medical Corps (Book Review)" By Cynthia Toman, Eliza Richardson

Canadian Military History

Review of Sister Soldiers of the Great War: The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps by Cynthia Toman.


"Resister: A Story Of Protest And Prison During The Vietnam War (Book Review)" By Bruce Dancis, Jeremy Maxwell Feb 2018

"Resister: A Story Of Protest And Prison During The Vietnam War (Book Review)" By Bruce Dancis, Jeremy Maxwell

Canadian Military History

Review of Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War by Bruce Dancis


"Beyond The Band Of Brothers: The Us Military And The Myth That Women Can’T Fight (Book Review)" By Megan Mackenzie, Russell Isinger Feb 2018

"Beyond The Band Of Brothers: The Us Military And The Myth That Women Can’T Fight (Book Review)" By Megan Mackenzie, Russell Isinger

Canadian Military History

Review of Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight by Megan MacKenzie.


"The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War (Book Review)" By Ian Mckay And Jamie Swift, Geoffrey Hayes Feb 2018

"The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War (Book Review)" By Ian Mckay And Jamie Swift, Geoffrey Hayes

Canadian Military History

Review of The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift.


"Strangers In Arms: Combat Motivation In The Canadian Army, 1943-1945 (Book Review)" By Robert Engen, Russell W. Glenn Feb 2018

"Strangers In Arms: Combat Motivation In The Canadian Army, 1943-1945 (Book Review)" By Robert Engen, Russell W. Glenn

Canadian Military History

Review of Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945 by Robert Engen.


"Moltke And His Generals: A Study In Leadership (Book Review)" By Quintin Barry, Dominic J. Caraccilo Feb 2018

"Moltke And His Generals: A Study In Leadership (Book Review)" By Quintin Barry, Dominic J. Caraccilo

Canadian Military History

Review of Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership by Quintin Barry.