HI101 HI151 Schedule of Lessons AY21-1 PDF

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HI101/HI151: Army of the Republic - Schedule of Lessons Lesson

Lesson Title

Date

1

Stories and “Contingency”

2 3 4 5

The Strong Militia Tradition Fighting a Republican War Towards an American Standing Army An Army for the New Republic

6

The Army in an Expanding Country

7 8

Citizens Go to War Motivation and Leadership

Assignment BLOCK I:

Review Fischer, Washington's Crossing , 5-30, 138-146, 206-220, 363-367. Read Crackel, West Point , 1-3. 17/18 AUG IP: Read Nimick and Kiesling, “Welcome to Your First West Point History Course.” 19/20 AUG Begin reading Martin and Lender, A Respectable Army. 21/24 AUG Martin and Lender, Chs. 1-2. 27/28 AUG Martin and Lender, Chs. 3-4. 31 AUG/ 1 SEP Martin and Lender, Chs. 5-6. MBS: Pete Maslowski, “To the Edge of Greatness: The United States, 17831865,” in Williamson R. Murray, et al., The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, 2/3 SEP and War (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), 205-234 (omit Civil War). Crackel, 37-46. 8/9 SEP McPherson, For Cause and Comrades, vii-xi and 3-45. 10/11 SEP McPherson, 46-89. IP: William Marvel, “A Poor Man’s Fight: Civil War Enlistment Patters in Conway, New Hampshire” 14/16 SEP McPherson, 117-130 and 182. Instructor Guidance: McPherson, 90-103 or McPherson 103-116 17/18 SEP McPherson, 131-178. 23 SEP Crackel, 81-91, 95-100, 127-135, 142-149, 154-156, 162-167. Evening Lecture OR: Thomas R. Buecker, “One Soldier’s Service: Caleb Benson in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, 1875-1908,” Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, ed., Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers’ Anthology (College Station, TX: 24/25 SEP Texas A&M Press, 2007), 114-128. OR: Cynthia A. Wood, “Army Laundresses and Civilization on the Western Frontier,” Journal of the West 41/3 (2002), 26-34.

9

Fighting for a Cause

10

Enduring a Long War

11

Lecture: American Military Institutions, 1865-1917

12

Frontier Stories

13

Resisting Reform

28/29 SEP

14

WPR

30 SEP Study Day

MBS: Rory McGovern, George W. Goethals and the Army: Change and Continuity in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2019), ch. 3 “War, Reform, and Resistance,” 50-83.

Notes

In class you will watch a digital presentation on the militia tradition.

Writing Requirement #1 Due in Class

Writing Requirement #2 Due in Class

Evening Lecture - No Class Meeting

Use the West Point Library online search to find Buecker and Wood's articles for Lesson 12.

Writing Requirement #3 Due in Class

During Dean's Exam Period

BLOCK II: 15 16 17 18 19

Creating a National Army Making Citizens and/or Soldiers Encountering “Others” Contested Legacies of Service West Point, 1914-1960

20

World War II: Mobilizing Citizens and Soldiers

21

World War II: Fighting a Global War

22

Lecture: US and the Cold War

23 24 25

Service as Citizenship Writing Time (No Class) Freedom, Fairness, and Selective Service

26

“West Point Belongs to You!” (TV show in class)

16/17 NOV

27

Citizens in an All-Volunteer Force

23/24 NOV

28

Women and the All-Volunteer Force

29

Turmoil and Growth at West Point, 1960-2001

30

Who Serves Today?

7/8 OCT 9/13 OCT 14/15 OCT 16/19 OCT 22/23 OCT

Keene, Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, 1-42. Keene, 43-81. Keene, 82-131. Keene, 132 -140, 154-178, 186-198. Crackel, 185-228. MBS: Russell F. Weigley, History of the United States Army (Indiana University 26/27 OCT Press, 1984), “The Army and the Arsenal of Democracy,” 421-450. MBS: Weigley, “Fighting Global War: 1941-45,” 451-482. OR: James M. McCaffrey, “Nisei versus Nazi,” in Douglas Bristol and Heather 28/29 OCT Stur, eds., Integrating the US Military (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 36-54. Taylor, Military Service and American Democracy from World War II to the Iraq 5 NOV Evening Lecture and Afghanistan Wars , 1-33. 5/6 NOV Taylor, 35-57. 9/10 NOV N/A. 12/13 NOV Taylor, 58-109. No assigned reading.

Taylor, 110-153. OR: Beth Bailey, America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (Cambridge, 30 NOV/ 1 DEC MA: Belknap Press, 2008), 130-171. [Chapter 5] 3/4 DEC Crackel, 229-276. Taylor, 155-168; 179-191. 7/8 DEC IP: Amy Schafer, “Generations of War: The Rise of the Warrior Caste & the AllVolunteer Force,” Military, Veterans, & Society, May 2017.

Use the West Point Library online search to find McCaffrey's article for Lesson 21.

Evening Lecture - No Class Meeting

Writing Requirement #4 Due in Class

Use the West Point Library online search to find Bailey's chapter for Lesson 28.

Use your browser search engine to find Schafer's article.

Abbreviations: IP = Instructor Provided; MBS = MBS Course Reader; OR = Online Reading Through USMA Library...