The Cambridge History of War and Society in America

Andrew J. Huebner is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of The Warrior Image (2008) and Love and Death in the Great War (2018), the latter winning the 2020 President's Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE). Jennifer D. Keene is Professor of History at Chapman University. She is the author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (2001), among numerous other works, and the 2025 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for significant and distinguished contributions to military history.

• Introduction roundtable: 'what is war and society?'; Conveners Andrew J. Huebner and Jennifer D. Keene; Panelists Beth Bailey, Christopher Capozzola, Lesley J. Gordon, John W. Hall, Adriane D. Lentz-Smith, Susannah J. Ural and Kara Dixon Vuic; Reflection: Brian McAllister Linn; Part I. War Times: 1. 'Imperial collisions: war times and societies in colonial America' Ricardo A. Herrera; 2. 'Revolutionary wars for a revolutionary society' Benjamin L. Carp; 3. 'Indigenous societies and the US-Mexican war' Brian DeLay; 4. 'A stirring at Appomattox: war and society and the American civil war' Christopher Phillips; 5. 'The American war on indigenous society, 1860–1900' Kevin Waite; 6. 'Making a militarized empire: 1898 and beyond' Oli Charbonneau; 7. 'World War I: death, American society, and the sinking of the SS Tuscania' Steven Trout; 8. 'Rethinking liberation in World War II' Mary Louise Roberts; 9. 'Crossroads for change: the Korean war, desegregation, and civil-military relations' William A. Taylor; 10. 'The cold war: war 'as' society?' Laura McEnaney; 11. 'Facing frustration and failure: the American experience in Vietnam' Gregory A. Daddis; 12. ''A perpetual war on terror': debating policy, strategy, and service in the twenty-first century' David Kieran; 13. 'Reflection: whose wartime?' Mary L. Dudziak; Part II. War Societies: 14. 'American women at war' Heather Marie Stur; 15. 'The uneasy relationship between capitalism and war' Mark R. Wilson; 16. 'US Veterans' health care: distributing dollars, opening institutions, building systems' Jessica L. Adler; 17. 'The soldiers' war in American history' Wayne E. Lee; 18. 'Race-ing war and society' Charissa Threat; 19. 'Through the looking glass: reflections on conscription in the United States' Amy Rutenberg; 20. 'War and society and nature' Lisa M. Brady; 21. 'What is a war society? Reflections on American militarization' Jennifer Mittelstadt; Part III. War Meanings: 22. 'Religion and war' Jonathan H. Ebel; 23. 'An answer to their restlessness: civil war veteran migration and the frontier' Kurt Hackemer; 24. 'The problem of the disabled veteran' John Kinder; 25. 'Masculinity, military systems, and warfighting' Lorien Foote; 26. 'Love in war' Susan L. Carruthers; 27. 'The lost cause and memory' Barbara A. Gannon; 28. 'When war creates life: race, nationality, and belonging for mixed-race children born of war' Sabrina Thomas; 29. 'The beauty and the horror: war and creativity' Pearl James and Anika Jensen; 30. 'Reflections on the meaning of war' Michael S. Neiberg.