Teaching Us Military History

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-74654-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Military, War, and Society in Modern American History

This practical, wide-ranging guide to teaching one of the most popular and challenging fields in US history is written by leading scholars who have extensive classroom experience. Organized around key topics and innovative teaching methods, the essays provide concrete, tested approaches, from teaching World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War to using film, wargaming, staff rides, and public-facing projects. The authors also directly address and reflect on some of the pedagogical challenges and controversies of teaching about war. The book bridges traditional military history and 'war and society' approaches to integrate the operational side of military history with broader social, cultural, and political aspects and consequences. Designed for instructors at high school and college level, as well as graduate students preparing to teach, it is an essential resource for anyone seeking to engage students more effectively with a field that remains central to understanding the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, Beth

Preston, Andrew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Beth Bailey and Andrew Preston; Part I. Topics and Themes: 1. Bringing the world into teaching US military history Wayne E. Lee; 2. The global war: strategies for teaching world war II William I. Hitchcock; 3. War's the thing: teaching violence in military history Ruth Lawlor; 4. Refighting-and teaching-the American war in Vietnam Gregory A. Daddis; 5. A plea for teaching twenty-first century US military history Marjorie Galelli; 6. Teaching about race and military history Adriane Lentz-Smith; 7. Teaching military history and/as the other Susan L. Carruthers; Part II. Pedagogy and Method: 8. Water balloon wars: using wargames as active learning tools to teach the historical process Judkin Browning; 9. Teaching battles and the soldier experience Lorien Foote; 10. Taking the classroom to the battlefield: the staff ride Ricardo Herrera; 11. Teaching military history with film Jay Lockenour; 12. Putting students on the front lines: nine thoughts on public-facing projects in military history courses David Kieran; 13. Public-facing local and national military histories Kara Dixon Vuic; 14. Battleships, bombs, and bullets: technology in the American military history survey Timothy S. Wolters.

Über Autor(innen)

Bailey, Beth
Beth Bailey is co-founder of TeachingMilitaryHistory.org and an author of the widely used US history textbook A People and a Nation (2024). Her award-winning scholarship includes An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era (2023) and America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (2009).

Preston, Andrew
Andrew Preston is W. L. Lyons Brown Jr. Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in Diplomacy and Statecraft at the University of Virginia. A former President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), his recent publications include Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security (2025).