The American media has recently discovered children's experiences in present-day wars. This book shows that boys and girls have routinely contributed to war efforts, armies have accepted under-aged soldiers for centuries, and war-time experiences have affected the ways in which grown-up children of war perceive themselves and their societies.
The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
The American Revolution was a struggle not only for independence, but for the lands of American Indians. This is an account of the events surrounding the scorched-earth campaign against the Iroquois of New York and the eastern territories in 1779.
A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present
In Ancient Greece and Rome same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. This anthology explores the crucial but often hidden role gays and lesbians have played in military campaigns through the ages.
A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present
In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns.
Women have been actively involved the United States military for more than years, but the ban on their participation in combat remains a debated issue. This book calls for opening various aspects of military service to women.
The effects of the Civil War on civilian life in Texas are powerfully conveyed in the correspondence of Dr. Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874), a natural scientist and philosopher who moved to Texas in 1848 with his family of ten children and settled in Washington County. Having retired from an extensive and lucrative botanical medical practice in ......
These memoirs are unique because of the six thousand Japanese-Americans who saw military service in the war against Japan, only two were captured by the Japanese and one of them was Frank Fujita--the only combat soldier taken prisoner by the Japanese. For him, capture involved the implicit threat of torture and execution as a traitor to Japan. ......
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In ......
