Operations in the 1850s and assist military historians in their understanding of these activities as they relate to the twenty-first century."--Jacket.

The first full-length biography of a saloon-brawling braggart and frontier opportunist turned justice of the peace Henry Theodore Titus (1822-1881) was the quin

The deployment of a large number of soldiers, police officers and civilian personnel inevitably has various effects on the host society and economy, not all of

In Jackson's Sword, Samuel Watson showed how the U.S. Army officer corps played a crucial role in stabilizing the frontiers of a rapidly expanding nation. In th

“A lively read about the cracks in the system. What’s more, it offers some good ideas for how we might go about fixing them.” —Jelani Cobb, The New York