Posted by
Alyssa on
31 August 2010, 9:35 am
We’ve previously mentioned the “Page 99 Test,” with which one can “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you,” according to Ford Madox Ford. Marshal Zeringue edits a blog that follows this theme, asking authors to test their books and analyze the content based [...] Read more »
Posted by
MHHunt on
19 August 2010, 10:44 am
Barack Obama’s Afghanistan commanders are something else. First, they promoted a highly debatable counter-insurgency strategy. Then, despite the numerous and cogent contemporary critiques, they got the president to buy into their particular brand of wishful thinking, and they got from him the additional troops supposedly needed for success. They have since failed to deliver. There [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Michael H. Hunt, Military History, Military Studies, Politics.
Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, general mcchrystal, general petraeus, hamid karzai, michael mullen, robert gates, vietnam
Posted by
MHHunt on
5 August 2010, 10:48 am
Developments over the last month or so have put the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan under a dark cloud. The McChrystal affair and the WikiLeaks revelations are symptomatic of deeper troubles: the rapid bankruptcy of counterinsurgency, a surge in U.S. casualties, the persistently problematic role of Pakistan, the continued immobility of the Karzai regime, the sluggish [...] Read more »
Posted by
Alyssa on
6 July 2010, 2:07 pm
We know, we know. Winning isn’t everything, but we have to admit, it sure does feel good! Author Daniel Sutherland was awarded the first ever Tom Watson Brown Book Award, a $50,000 prize, by the Society of Civil War Historians, for his book A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. The [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Military History, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged A Savage COnflict, Book Award, civil war, Daniel Sutherland, david perry, Guerrilla Warfare, Military History, Tom Watson Brown Book Award
Posted by
MHHunt on
2 July 2010, 8:59 am
There is good reason to pity the poor historian, who has been tested especially severely during the recent McChrystal-Obama imbroglio as the eruption of historical parallels and lessons have ranged from the wrong-headed to the off-kilter. Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Michael H. Hunt, Military History, Politics.
Tagged afghanistan, general arthur macarthur, general mcchrystal, henry kissinger, korean war, phillippines, vietnam war
Posted by
Alyssa on
24 June 2010, 1:10 pm
When former President Bill Clinton was elected nearly 18 years ago, there was heated debate about gays serving in the United States military. Originally, a proposed federal law was to ban all gays from the armed services; Clinton rallied support for a compromise and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was born in 1993. Seven [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, Civil Rights, Cultural Studies, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Military History, Military Studies, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged Allan Berube, don't ask don't tell, gay and lesbian veterans, gay rights movement, Gay/Lesbian studies, gays in the military, steve estes, u.s. military
Posted by
Ellen on
6 May 2010, 10:35 am
The U.K. edition of A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives hits bookstores across the pond today — just as Britons head to the polls to elect a new Prime Minister. In a previous guest post, editor Michael H. Hunt addressed one of the more striking similarities between the Vietnam [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Asian Studies, Guest Bloggers, Michael H. Hunt, Military History.
Tagged ho chi minh, john f. kennedy, lbj, le duan, lyndon johnson, mao zedong, north vietnam, Richard Nixon, robert mcnamara, south vietnam, tet offensive, vietnam war, vo nguyen giap
Posted by
Ellen on
5 May 2010, 1:10 pm
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans is more than a book we’ve just published — it’s a multimedia project based on interviews with dozens of female military veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book juxtaposes 48 photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Gender Studies, Military History, Women's Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, Iraq, Laura Browder, sascha flaeging, women combat veterans, women in the military
Posted by
Ellen on
6 April 2010, 6:54 am
“We’re frustrated,” conceded President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on Monday. The U.S. relationship with Afghan president Hamid Karzai is currently strained, to say the least. Offering some historical perspective on the situation, we welcome a guest post today from Michael H. Hunt, whose most recent book, A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Michael H. Hunt, Middle Eastern Studies, Military History, Politics, Public Policy.
Tagged barack obama, hamid karzai, john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, ngo dinh diem, saigon, u.s. afghanistan policy, u.s. vietnam policy
Posted by
Beth on
16 March 2010, 9:26 am
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, certainly not a happy memory—in fact , the opposite of that—but one well worth stopping to ponder. On this day in 1968, during the Vietnam War, the massacre was carried out by United States troops. Under the direction of Lt. William L. Calley Jr., a [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Military History, UNC Press News.
Tagged american combat soldiers, andrew huebner, calley, calley apology, chris appy, christian g. appy, edwin e. moise, lessons of vietnam, mark philip bradley, MIAs, michael hunt, michael j. allen, michael s. foley, my lai, my lai massacre, patricia appelbaum, pows, ron milam, timothy j. lomperis, vietnam era, vietnam war, william l. calley
Posted by
matt on
5 March 2010, 3:43 pm
If you are familiar with the UNC Press Blog, you probably know that we know a thing or two about celebrating. If it has a national celebration day, week, or month, we probably have it marked on our calendars well in advance. Why else would we have a 1000-word post on the merits of National [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Civil War, Current Events, Gender Studies, History, Military History, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, Army at Home, civil war, Giesberg, Iraq, Laura Browder, March, National Women's History Month, Sascha Pflaeging, When Janey Comes Marching Home
Posted by
Ellen on
11 February 2010, 12:05 pm
We welcome a guest post today from Michael J. Allen, author of Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War. In his book, Allen analyzes the effects that activism by POW and MIA families had on U.S. politics before and after the Vietnam War’s official end. In this post, marking [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Guest Bloggers, History, Military History, Military Studies.
Tagged colonel armand myers, james stockdale, jeremiah denton, John McCain, operation homecoming, peace with honor, pow/mia, pows, prisoners of war, Richard Nixon, vietnam, vietnam war, vietnamese prisons
Posted by
Ellen on
2 December 2009, 11:57 am
In a follow-up to his article on Obama and Afghanistan, Michael Hunt responds to President Obama’s speech at West Point last night, in which the President laid out his plan for additional troops and a timeline for withdrawal.–ellen [author photo by Dan Sears] Barack Obama has an impressive intellect, and he has given the decision [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Michael H. Hunt, Military History, Military Studies, Politics, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged afghanistan, al qaeda, barack obama, foreign relations, michael hunt, pakistan, saigon, taliban, u.s. intervention, u.s. military, vietnam, war on terror, west point speech
Posted by
Ellen on
25 November 2009, 5:15 pm
Before we close up shop for the Thanksgiving holiday, I wanted to highlight some excellent commentary on President Obama’s impending decision about how to proceed with the war in Afghanistan. The President is scheduled to make an announcement next Tuesday, December 1, about his intentions for America’s next steps. Between now and then, we would [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, History, Military History, Military Studies, Politics, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, cold war, lyndon johnson, michael hunt, Richard Nixon, vietnam, war on terror
Posted by
Ellen on
31 August 2009, 10:45 am
We welcome a guest post today from historian and Vietnam veteran Ron Milam, author of Not a Gentleman’s War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War. In his book, Milam debunks the view of the junior officer typified by Lt. William Calley of My Lai infamy, demonstrating instead that most of the [...]
Filed under Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Military History, Military Studies.
Tagged captain ernest medina, fort benning, general william westmoreland, lt. william calley, my lai, my lai massacre, refusal to obey an unlawful order, vietnam massacre, vietnam officers
