If you hadn’t noticed, I am a hopeless book acquirer. But, like most folks, I am watching my book budget these days. That said, I found a sale going on this month over at Indiana University Press that has some awesome deals. To commemorate the Lincoln Bicentennial, they’ve put [...]
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Edward Hagerman. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. Reprint. Indiana University Press, 1992.
In this important work on tactical and strategic military history, Edward Hagerman posits that the American Civil War marshaled in a new era in land warfare colored [...]
Continue Reading →WOW! I am absolutely engrossed in Edward Hagerman’s The American Civil War and the Continue Reading →
We have arrived in “Studies in U.S. Military History” (see course information here) at the American Civil War. We’ll spend two weeks on this war, more than any other. Millett and Maslowski’s For the Common Defense splits the war into two periods: chapter six, [...]
Continue Reading →Next class starts Monday – Studies in U.S. Military History. I posted earlier a description of the class here.
I stacked up all the the required reading texts today in “historical order.” IMPRESSIVE! All are listed on my bookshelves here.
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