Prof Richard Jensen

HST 491: War since Napoleon

Syllabus: Spring 2010

Contact

Prof. Richard Jensen, 860-917-1851

Office hours: 5-6 pm before class; also after class; also by arrangement; email 24x7

Four Course Requirements:

One term paper 35% (2500 word minimum; topic due Feb 2; paper due April 13; rewrite possible due April 27); Midterm 20% and final exam 25%.

Class report on any one of these articles (read all of them) (20%)

  • Feb 9: Historiography Report (read all –report on any one)
  • Christopher Bassford "Jomini And Clausewitz" (1993)
  • Black, Jeremy. "Determinisms and Other Issues," Journal of Military History, 68 (Oct. 2004), 1217–32.
  • Lee, Wayne E. "Mind and Matter—Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," Journal of American History,' 93 (March 2007), 1116–42. online
  • Andrew N. Liaropoulos, "Revolutions in Warfare: Theoretical Paradigms and Historical Evidence: The Napoleonic and First World War...", Journal of Military History, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 363-384
  • Lynn, John A. "Rally Once Again: The Embattled Future of Academic Military History," Journal of Military History, 61 (Oct. 1997), 777–89. online
  • Moyar, Mark. “The Current State of Military History.,” Historical Journal 2007 50(1): 225-240 worldwide scope
  • Reid, Brian Holden. "American Military History: the Need for Comparative Analysis." Journal of American History' 2007 93(4): 1154-1157. Issn: 0021-8723 online
  • Rothenberg, “The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon”Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1988), pp. 771-793
  • Spector, Ronald H. "Teetering on the Brink of Respectability." Journal of American History 2007 93(4): 1158-1160.
  • Spiller, Roger. "Military History and its Fictions." Journal of Military History 2006 70(4): 1081-1097.

Readings:

Townshend, ed. The Oxford History of Modern War (2000)

Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (1995)

(required) : subscribe to H-War

(recommended) buy an encyclopedia on DVD or CD-ROM

Encarta at amazon.com or Ency. Britannica (get 2009 or 2010 DVD) at Ohio Software

Schedule

Jan 19 Historiography/ Native Americans

  • Matloff American Military History ch 14
  • Emailed essay by Jensen

Jan 26: American Revolution

  • Townshend ch 2, 3
  • http:'/en.citizendium.org/wiki/American_Revolution
  • Matloff American Military History ch 3-4

Feb 2: Napoleon TERMPAPER TOPIC DUE

  • Townshend ch 4
  • Rothenberg, “The Origins, Causes, and Extension of the Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon”Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, (1988), pp. 771-793
  • Fisher, Napoleon (1912) ch 9 -10 full text at books.google.com
  • Leggiere, “ From Berlin to Leipzig: Napoleon's Gamble in North Germany, 1813,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 39-84 JSTOR = also Project MUSE

Feb 9: Technology and theory: CLASS REPORTS

  • Townshend ch 5, 11, 18
  • Matloff American Military History ch 13
  • Grimsley, Mark. "Why Military History Sucks," Nov. 1996, War Historian.org, online at

Feb 16: Civil War I

  • Matloff American Military History ch 9-10
  • James Ford Rhodes, , History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918) ch 1-5, 7

Feb 23: Civil War II

  • Matloff American Milatary History ch 11-12
  • James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918) ch 6, 8-14

Mar 2 spring break

Mar 9 WWI

  • Townshend ch 6, 11
  • Matloff American Military History ch 17

Mar 16 WWI

  • Townshend ch 7
  • Matloff American Military History ch 18

Mar 23 WW2 Coming, Sea

  • Townshend ch 12; Overy ch 1-2
  • Matloff American Military History ch 20-21

Mar 30 WW2: Land war and air

  • Townshend ch 8, 13, 14; Overy ch 3, 4, 5
  • Matloff American Military History ch 22- 3

Apr 6 WW2 Homefront

  • Townshend ch 15, 16; Overy ch 6, 8-10
  • Women at war:
  • D'Ann Campbell, "Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 301-323

Apr 13 Cold War TERMPAPER DUE

  • Townshend ch 9, 10, 18 and TBA

Apr 20: Vietnam

  • Links: http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/vietnam.html
  • Matloff American Military History ch 28 at
  • Richard Jensen, "Victory afd Defeat an t`e Vaetnam War". (2003! http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/viet36.doc
  • Raymond W. Leonard, "Learning from History: Linebacker II and U.S. Air Force Doctrine, " Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 267-303

Apr 27 exam week

Online sources

  • class handouts and readings
  • Jensen, Web Sources for Military History http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/military.html
  • Military History Resources http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/history.html
  • Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, eds Reader's Companion to Military History (1996)
  • War Historian Mark Grimsley's informal and highly useful site on military history
  • scholarly articles
  • powerful book search

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