HIST 401 History of the American Soldier

• eBooks

  • Outside the wire : American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan edited by Christine Dumaine Leche              

  • Our army : soldiers, politics, and American civil-military relations by Dempsey, Jason K, 1972-

  • The good occupation : American soldiers and the hazards of peace by Susan L. Carruthers.

  • Militant visions : black soldiers, internationalism, and the transformation of American cinema by Elizabeth Reich.

  • Warrior Image : Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era by Huebner, Andrew J

  • A people's history of the U.S. military : ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan by Michael A. Bellesiles.

  • Band of sisters : American women at war in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt

  • It's my country too : women's military stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow

  • The martial imagination : cultural aspects of American warfare edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.

  • When war becomes personal : soldiers' accounts from the Civil War to Iraq edited by Donald Anderson.

  • Americans all! : foreign-born soldiers in World War I / Nancy Gentile Ford

  • Male armor : the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture / Jon Robert Adams.

  • The African American experience during World War II / Neil A. Wynn.

  • Serving our country : Japanese American women in the military during World War II / Brenda L. Moore.

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• Books on the Shelf at the Freel Library
  • The GI's war : the story of American soldiers in Europe in World War II / Edwin P. Hoyt. (D756.3.H68 1988)
  • The African-American soldier : from Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell / Michael Lee Lanning (UB418.A47 L36 1997)
  • Bringing the war home : the American soldier in Vietnam and after by Helmer, John (UB357.H44)
  • Let us fight as free men : black soldiers and civil rights / Christine Knauer. (E185.63.K58 2014)
  • Soldiers and civilians : the U.S. Army and the American people / edited by Garry D. Ryan and Timothy K. Nenninger. (UA25.S66 1987)
  • American Indians in World War I : at home and at war / Thomas A. Britten. (D570.8.I6 B75 1997)
  • American myth and the legacy of Vietnam / John Hellmann. (DS558.H44 1986)
  • Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War / by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it ; [edited by] Al Santoli. ( DS559.5 .E88)
  • Integrating the US military : race, gender, and sexual orientation since World War II / edited by Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., and Heather Marie Stur. (UB417.I58 2017)
  • Did you kill anyone? : reunderstanding my military experience as a critique of modern culture / Scott Beauchamp. (DS79.76 .B43 2020)