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Colonial Militia Systems
In the colonial era, the militia system was linked to fundamental concepts of American citizenship; militias were considered to be one of three pillars of society, along with the church and local government. Militarily, the colonial militia was the primary instrument ...
- Art, Culture, and Memory
- “Star-Spangled Banner, The”
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- Economics and Labor
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- National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
- New York City Anti-Draft Riots
- Rationing in Wartime
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- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Media and Journalism
- Enola Gay Controversy
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- Censorship and the Military
- CNN
- Combat-Zone Photography
- Committee on Public Information
- Frontline Reporting
- Greeley, Horace
- 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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- Uniform Code of Military Justice
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- 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
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- Mitchell, William “Billy”
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- 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
- Civil–Military Relations
- Coastal Patrolling
- Colonial Militia Systems
- Continental Army
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Desertion
- European Military Culture, Influence of
- Goldwater–Nichols Act
- Homeland Security
- Impressment
- 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
- Replacement Depots
- Rumsfeld, Donald
- Selective Service System
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- Systems Analysis
- Think Tanks
- War Powers Resolution
- Washington, George
- Weinberger–Powell Doctrine
- Politics
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- Ali, Muhammad
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Antiwar Movements
- Civil–Military Relations
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- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Filibustering
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- Genocide
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- 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
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- 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
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- AMVETS
- Bonus March
- Combat, Effects of
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- Grand Army of the Republic
- Memory and War
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- Revolutionary War Pensions
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- Russia U.S. Intervention in
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- War of 1812
- War on Terrorism
- World War I
- World War II
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