Dialogue in Military History

Is There a Career in Military History? (1995)

Union Soldiers and the Persistence of Restraint in War (1995)

Why Military History Sucks (1996)

New Approaches to Teaching Military History in Civilian Academe (1997)

"Thieves, Murderers, Trespassers":  The Mythology of Sherman's March (1997)

Lady Bird's Pedernales River Chili: The Chili That Lost the Vietnam War (1997)

Starship Troopers, Civic Virtue, and the American Civil War (1997)

Four-Star Generalists. An appreciation of military history by Robert D. Kaplan that appeared in the October 1999 issue of Atlantic Monthly.

 Alternative Perspectives on "Enduring Freedom." (2001)

From the War with Mexico to "Enduring Freedom" (2001)

The Return of Military History?  Op/ed piece in National Review Online by Victor Davis Hanson. (2002)

Are Graduate Programs in Military History a Bad Idea? (2003)

Military Historiography:  A Select Bibliography (2003)

Blog: Interrogating the Project of Military History (December 15, 2003- ).

Warfare and the Construction of White Identity in the United States, 1675-1865 (2004).  How wars helped create and shape the contours of white racism.  A presentation given at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

 The Cultural Approach to War (2004).  Presentations given at the AHA by Profs. Barry Strauss, Joanna Waley-Cohen, and John A. Lynn, together with a comment by John F. Guilmartin, Jr.

Iraq, Grand Strategy, and the Lessons of Military History (2004).  Lecture by Anthony Cordesman.

If you have comments about any of these short essays, or about the field of military history in general, email me at grimsley.1@osu.edu

Most recent revision, October 22, 2004

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