Ian Delahanty
Fall 2008 PhD Comps
Prof. Jacobs
Americans at War and Abroad
Soldiers’ Experiences
Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers in Vietnam. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Berube, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World
War II. New York: Free Press, 1990.
Hess, Earl J. Enduring the Ordeal of Combat: The Union Soldier in Battle. Lawrence,
KA: University of Kansas Press, 1997.
Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and
Vietnam. Lawrence, KA: University of Kansas Press, 2003.
Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American
Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1987.
McPherson, James: What They Fought For, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana
State University Press, 1994.
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Van and American in Vietnam. New
York: Random House, 1988.
War and Conquest in American Memory
Adams, Michael C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press,1994.
Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Horowitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American
West. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987; reprint, 2006.
Rosenberg, Emily. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007.
Sherry, Michael. In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1995.
Skocpol, Theda: Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social
Policy in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1992.
Diplomacy, War, and American Culture
Baritz, Loren. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam
And Made Us Fight the Way We Did. New York: William Morrow and
Co., Inc., 1985
Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the
Dawn of the Cold War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985
Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1986.
Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked
the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. New York: Yale
University Press, 1998.
Fogelsong, David. The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The Crusade for a
Free Russia since 1881. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Jacobs, Seth. America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Race, Religion,
and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2004.
Sherry, Michael. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.