Abstract
The essays in this reader, all of them previously published, span American military history from the siege of Louisbourg in 1745 to the early twenty-first century war on terrorism. A few were originally book chapters, but the majority originally appeared in journals such as the Journal of Military History, Journal of American History, and Military History Quarterly. Although some of the articles are more than forty years old—John K. Mahon's 1961 rumination on Civil War assault tactics is an example—most embody comparatively recent scholarship. As might be expected of essays spanning the last forty years, they represent different types of military history. [End Page 249] With their focus on battles and leaders, Gerard T. Altoff's account of the Battle of Lake Erie and Stephen W. Sears's discussion of Antietam are "old-fashioned," descriptive military history; many other selections, such as William B. Skelton's depiction of pre-Civil War Army politics and Paul A. C. Koistinen's investigation of the interwar military-industrial complex, are analytical and deal only tangentially with the battlefield.
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