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Polk, James K.
(1795–1849)
11th President of the United States
James Knox Polk was by far the strongest president between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln and one of the strongest presidents ever. A poll of historians in 2000 ranked him 10th among U.S. chief executives—a ”neargreat” ...
- Art, Culture, and Memory
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- Apocalypse Now
- Beetle Bailey
- Born on the Fourth of July
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- Farewell to Arms, A
- From Here to Eternity
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- Platoon
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- Media and War
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- National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
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- War Industries Board
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- Education
- Environment, Health, and Medicine
- Gender
- Barton, Clara
- Camp Followers
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- Families, Military
- Gays and Lesbians in the Military
- Mahan, Dennis Hart
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- Pinups
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- Sexual Abuse and Harassment
- Stratton, Dorothy C.
- Tailhook Convention
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- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
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- Enola Gay Controversy
- Brady, Mathew B.
- Censorship and the Military
- CNN
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- Committee on Public Information
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- Mauldin, Bill
- Media and War
- Militant Liberty
- My Lai Massacre
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- Office of Censorship
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- Pyle, Ernie
- Radio Free Europe
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- Voice of America
- Law and Justice
- United States v. Seeger and Welsh v. United States
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- Andersonville
- Articles of War
- Court of Military Appeals
- Customs of War
- Desertion
- Doolittle Board
- Draft Evasion and Resistance
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Executive Order 8802
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- General Orders, No. 100
- Geneva and Hague Conventions
- Genocide
- Impressment
- Just War Theory
- My Lai Massacre
- Posse Comitatus Act
- Prisoners of War
- Quantrill's Raiders
- Tiger Force Recon Scandal
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- People-Military Leaders and Figures
- Arnold, Henry Harley
- Brant, Joseph and Margaret “Molly” Brant
- Butler, Smedley Darlington
- Chief Joseph
- Crazy Horse
- Custer, George Armstrong
- Davis, Jefferson
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford
- Geronimo
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Halsey, William F., Jr.
- Hitchcock, Ethan Allen
- Jones, John Paul
- Lee, Robert E.
- LeMay, Curtis Emerson
- Lynch, Jessica
- MacArthur, Douglas
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer
- Marshall, George Catlett
- Mitchell, William “Billy”
- Murphy, Audie
- Nimitz, Chester William
- Osceola
- Patton, George
- Pershing, John Joseph
- Pontiac
- Powell, Colin
- Rickover, Hyman
- Ridgway, Matthew Bunker
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Sampson, Deborah
- Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
- Scott, Winfield
- Sheridan, Philip H.
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Spaatz, Carl
- Stratton, Dorothy C.
- Tecumseh
- York, Alvin Cullum
- Planning, Strategy, and Command and Control
- Aerial Bombardment
- All Volunteer Force
- Berlin Crises
- Civil Defense
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- Coastal Patrolling
- Colonial Militia Systems
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- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Desertion
- European Military Culture, Influence of
- Goldwater–Nichols Act
- Homeland Security
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- Intelligence Gathering in War
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Marine Corps
- McNamara, Robert S.
- Merchant Marine
- Militarization and Militarism
- Military Bases
- Militia Groups
- National Guard
- National Security Council Memorandum-68
- National War College
- Nitze, Paul Henry
- Nuclear Strategy
- Prisoners of War
- Private Military Contractors
- Public Opinion and Policy in Wartime
- Rangers
- Reconstruction
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- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Selective Service System
- Strategic Air Command
- Systems Analysis
- Think Tanks
- War Powers Resolution
- Washington, George
- Weinberger–Powell Doctrine
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- Enola Gay Controversy
- Ali, Muhammad
- American Civil Liberties Union
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- Civil–Military Relations
- Draft Evasion and Resistance
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Filibustering
- Geneva and Hague Conventions
- Genocide
- Goldwater–Nichols Act
- Holocaust, U.S. Response to
- Impressment
- Isolationism
- Jackson, Andrew
- Lincoln, Abraham
- McKinley, William
- McNamara, Robert S.
- My Lai Massacre
- Nitze, Paul Henry
- Pacifism
- Polk, James K.
- Posse Comitatus Act
- Powell, Colin
- Prisoners of War
- Public Opinion and Policy in Wartime
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Truman, Harry S.
- Veteran Status and Electability
- War Powers Resolution
- Washington, George
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Race and Ethnicity
- 442nd Regimental Combat Team of Nisei
- 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- African Americans in the Military
- Ali, Muhammad
- Atrocity and Captivity Narratives
- Brownsville Riot
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Continental Army, Foreign Officers in
- Davis, Benjamin O. Sr.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Executive Order 9981
- Fighting 69th
- Foreign Officers in the Continental Army
- German and Italian Americans, Internment of
- Great Migration
- Harlem Hellfighters
- Hastie, William Henry
- Indian Army Scouts
- Japanese Americans, Internment of
- Latinos in the Military
- Native Americans in Colonial Wars and the Revolutionary War
- Native Americans in the Military
- Port Chicago Mutiny
- Powell, Colin
- Race Riots
- Racial Integration of the Armed Forces
- Randolph, A. Philip
- Schuyler, George
- Shaw, Robert Gould
- Young, Charles
- Zoot Suit Riot
- Religion
- Science and Technology
- Aerospace Industry
- Armored Vehicles
- Arms Trade
- Computer Technology and Warfare
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Manhattan Project
- Munitions Industry
- National Space Program
- National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert
- Satellite Technology
- Technology and Revolutionary Changes in Military Affairs
- Ultra and Enigma
- Soldiering and Veterans’ Affairs
- American Legion
- American Veterans Committee
- AMVETS
- Bonus March
- Combat, Effects of
- Disabled American Veterans
- GI Bills
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Memory and War
- Psychiatric Disorders, Combat Related
- Revolutionary War Pensions
- Society of the Cincinnati
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Veterans Administration
- Veterans Day
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Vietnam Veterans against the War
- Vietnam Veterans of America
- Wars
- Boxer Rebellion
- Central America and the Caribbean, Interventions in
- Civil War
- Cold War
- Colonial Wars
- Indian Wars: Eastern Wars
- Indian Wars: Seminole Wars
- Indian Wars: Western Wars
- Iraq War
- Korean War
- Mexican War
- Mormons, Campaign against the
- Peacekeeping Operations
- Persian Gulf War
- Philippine War
- Revolutionary War
- Russia U.S. Intervention in
- Spanish–American War
- Vietnam War
- War of 1812
- War on Terrorism
- World War I
- World War II
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