"In a manner that no previous author has achieved, Chad Williams vividly captures the turbulent times and sentiment
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In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American exp
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Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World
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The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thru
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This book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods
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From 1914 to 1918, religious believers and hopeful skeptics tried to find meaning and purpose behind divinely willed des
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When America entered World War I in April 1917, state National Guard units had never planned to mobilize for this kind o
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Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regu
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Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. The
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Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially
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