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They were U.S. Army soldiers. Just a few years earlier, some had
been slaves. Several thousand African Americans served as soldiers
in the Indian Wars and in the Cuban campaign of the
Spanish-American War in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
They were known as buffalo soldiers, believed to have been named by
Indians who had seen a similarity between the coarse hair and dark
skin of the soldiers and the coats of the buffalo. Twenty-three of
these men won the nation's highest award for personal bravery, the
Medal of Honor. Black Valor brings the lives of these soldiers into
sharp focus. Their remarkable stories are told in the collected
biography. Derived from extensive historical research, Black Valor
will enrich and inspire students with its tales of trials and
courage.
Author Dr. Frank N. Schubert examines the almost 300 US military
deployments that occurred between 1989 and 2001. At the time, the
large number of these deployments appeared to overtax the US
military and support theories of global chaos. Schubert's analysis
of the American military experience and operations in the post-Cold
War decade demonstrates that the operations were neither as diffuse
nor as numerous as first thought. Instead of looking at hundreds of
disparate operations ranging the globe, the book groups common
operations in specific regions significantly reducing the overall
total and clarifying the focus of the deployments. Moreover, the
nature of the operations comports with a long US military tradition
of law enforcement, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, and
nation building as well as constabulary operations, including
pacification and so-called small wars.
A series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in
which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure
describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major
American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on
future operations. CMH Pubs 72-1 through 72-40.
The Buffalo Soldiers were African Americans who served in the
Regular Army between the Civil War and World War I and fought in
some of the most difficult wars against western Indians. Examining
their military service, their social lives, and their interactions
with western civilian communities, it uses the words of the
soldiers themselves and of contemporary observers, some friendly
and some not.
"Voices of the Buffalo Soldier" draws on a wide variety of
periodicals, military records, and letters. It covers such key
topics as the legislative origin of the inclusion of black soldiers
in the army, the campaigns in which the Buffalo Soldiers fought,
their daily lives and interactions with white communities, the few
black chaplains and line officers who were permitted to serve, and
the bravery of some Buffalo Soldier heroes. All students of the
frontier army as well as aficionados with a special interest in the
Buffalo Soldiers will find this an invaluable publication.
"The first work that presents the correspondence and their
primary documents pertaining to black soldiers' lives in the
West."--Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
This book marks an important anniversary in the history of our
development as a nation. In 1838 Congress established the Corps of
Topographical Engineers, an organization whose main purpose was the
peacetime fostering of economic growth and national cohesion. This
small dedicated group of officers contributed to the development of
many aspects of the national transportation network-railroads,
highways, and inland waterways. They provided maps for overland
travelers and charts for navigators on our Great Lakes. By the time
that the organization was abolished during the Civil War, it had
played a major part in a period of dramatic development aptly
characterized by one historian as a "transportation revolution."
ROBERT W. PAGE Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Migrations and border issues are now matters of great interest and
importance. This book examines the ways in which Hungary has
adapted to regional and global requirements while seeking to meet
its own needs. It adds to the literature a case study, the only one
of its kind, showing the evolution of a single set of borders over
a century in response to a wide range of internal and external
forces in a regional and global context. The narrative illuminates
the complexities, opportunities, and problems that face a small
state that finds itself often on the edge. Twentieth century
Europe's borders have repeatedly been dismantled, moved, and
refashioned. Hungary, even more than Germany, exemplifies border
decomposition, re-creation, destruction, "Sovietization," and
resurrection in a new Central Europe. Facing one way, then the
other, its past includes a conflicting self image as a bastion of
the west and as a bridge between east and west, as well as a long
and unwilling period as a defender of the east.
In 1874, Fort Robinson was founded amid the piney ridges of
northwest Nebraska to stem the attacks of the Sioux, angered by
settlers encroaching on the High Plains and by gold prospectors
invading their sacred Black Hills. Fort Robinson's
residents--including black troops, members of the Ninth and Tenth
Cavalry Regiments--were divided by rank and sometimes by race.
Schubert makes clear the vital importance of Fort Robinson during
the Sioux wars, including the Ghost Dance Uprisings of 1890, and he
blends social analysis with military history in his concern for the
families of soldiers and civilians.
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