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"A sophisticated work that addresses problems in military education that are far from being resolved today. It is at once an intellectual history of the U.S. Army at a most interesting time in its evolution and an illuminating commentary on the ways that an army can utilize history. Civil War buffs will be especially pleased by Reardon's analysis of the Army's study of the Civil War during this period."—Jay Luvaas, Army War College, author of The Military Legacy of the Civil War
"An excellent and original study of the development of American military thought and literature in the era before World War I."—Timothy K. Nenninger, National Archives, author of The Leavenworth Schools and the Old Army
Author Biography: Carol Reardon is assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia. She has been associate editor for the Henry Clay Papers project at the University of Kentucky and assistant editor of the journal Diplomatic History.
| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Military History: "The Foundation of Our Art, the Basis of Our Profession" | 9 |
| Part 1. | Military History and Officer Education | 33 |
| 3 | Military History and the School of "Safe Leadership" | 35 |
| 4 | Civil War Battlefields: Open-Air Classrooms for Military History | 50 |
| 5 | A Model and a Muddle: Two Historical Research Programs, 1908-1917 | 67 |
| Part 2. | Military History and an American Literature on the Art of War | 87 |
| 6 | The Pen Rivals the Sword: Writing about the American Way of War | 89 |
| 7 | American Campaigns: The U.S. Army's First Military History Textbook | 109 |
| 8 | A First Attempt at Official History | 125 |
| Part 3. | The Soldiers Versus the Scholars | 145 |
| 9 | The Roots of Interprofessional Tensions | 147 |
| 10 | Exercises in Frustration; Two AHA Committees for Military and Naval History | 164 |
| 11 | A Pyrrhic Victory: The U.S. Army's Historical Section, 1914-1920 | 182 |
| 12 | Epilogue: "Thank God for Leavenworth" | 201 |
| Notes | 215 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 255 | |
| Index | 265 |
Overview
"A sophisticated work that addresses problems in military education that are far from being resolved today. It is at once an intellectual history of the U.S. Army at a most interesting time in its evolution and an illuminating commentary on the ways that an army can utilize history. Civil ...