Edited by Sarah Key Bierle and Chris Mackowski. El Dorado, CA: Savas Beatie, 2024. ISBN 978-1-61121-596-0. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xix, 303. $32.95. Edited by the team of Sarah Bierle and Chris Mackowski, War in…
The Army Historical Foundation will bring the local community together this September for a special outdoor activation at the National Museum of the United States Army in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks…
By William Marvel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-0-8071-8243-7. Maps. Notes Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 322. $49.95. Award-winning historian William Marvel is a prolific author of numerous books about the
By Paul Taylor. Essex, CT: Stackpole Books, 2024. ISBN 978-0-8117-7538-0. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 432. $34.95. When the Civil War started, the U.S. Army numbered fewer than 15,000 soldiers. With both sides building th…
Revolutionary War Soldier…A Continental Army soldier killed at the Battle of Camden on 16 August 1780 and buried in a shallow common grave after the battle has been tentatively identified as Private John Pumphrey of Anne Arundel County, Mar…
By Justin Williamson. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2024. ISBN 978-147286-301-0. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 80, $23.00. One might expect to be disappointed by this characteristically small Osprey volume. The book is typical Os…
By Matthew J. Seelinger Situated amongst the rolling hills of Fauquier County, Virginia, near the town of Warrenton, and approximately forty-five miles from Washington, DC, lies what was once an Army post known as Vint Hill Farms Station. A…
2025 AHF Distinguished Writing Awards Winners BOOKS Biography Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines. By Peter Mansoor. Cambridge University Press. Journals, Memoirs, and Letters Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Mass…
By Alan Pell Crawford. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. ISBN 978-0-59331-850-8. Map. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 382. $32.50. Much of the military history of the American Revolution has focused battles and heroes in northe…
By Michel Pardis. New York: Mariner Books, 2024. ISBN 978-0-358-68237-0. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index.Pp. 507. $35.00. Tackling a biography or history of General Dwight D. Eisenhower is challenging. It is a well-traveled ro…
On the 19 June, Americans from all over the country will observe a holiday that symbolized the end of slavery, a dreadful practice that had plagued the nation’s history. In order to form a better understanding of the heritage of this unique…
On 27 July 1775, the Continental Congress established “an hospital” to support the patriot forces assembled around Boston. Those troops—New England militia—had been designated the Continental Army on 14 June. They had their militia doctors,…