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The Dale Center is extremely proud of our graduate alumni and the work they produce.  See below for a listing of the books authored or edited by our former students.

Book Cover Robins Carter Veterans

 

 

Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999), A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter Put Vietnam Veteran's Issues on the National Agenda (Modern War Studies Series) (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2024). *Forthcoming

Book Cover Republic of Scoundrels 2023

 

 

Timothy Hemmis, ed. (USM PhD, 2015) and David Head (ed.), A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American (New York: Pegasus Books, 2023)

Book Cover Mortimer Afghan Surge

 

 

John J. Mortimer, Jr. (USM PhD 2021), The Afghan Surge: The U. S. Army in Afghanistan, January 2009-August 2011 (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center for Military History, 2023). 

Book Cover Coffey NC Troops

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds.  North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 21: Militia and Home Guard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

Book Cover Thompson Vietnam

 

 

Robert J. Thompson III (USM PhD, 2016), Clear, Hold, and Destroy: Pacification in Phú Yên and the American War in Vietnam (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Book Cover Colbourn Marines

 

Colin Colbourn (USM PhD, 2018), The Marines (London, Amber Books, 2020)

Book Cover Engle Air Force

 

Jason Engle (USM PhD, 2018), The Air Force (London, Amber Books, 2020).

Book Cover Bius Smoke

 

 

Joel Bius (USM PhD, 2015), Smoke Em If You Got Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration (Annapolis, MD: Naval; Institute Press, 2018).

Book Cover Barbier Nazi Hunters

 

 

Mary Kathryn Barbier (USM PhD, 1998), Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals (Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2017).

Book Cover Coffey NC Soldiers

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds. North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 20 Generals, Staff Officers, and Militia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

 

Book Cover Robins Longest Rescue

 

 

Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999), The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2015).

Book Cover Robins CW Prisons

 

 

Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999) and Paul Springer, Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of Captivity (London: Routledge, 2014)

Book Cover Spurgeon Soldiers

 

 

Ian Michael Spurgeon (USM PhD, 2007), Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit (Campaigns and Commanders Series), (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).

Book Cover Coffey

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds.  North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 19 Miscellaneous Battalions and Companies (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

Book Cover Robins Left Us to Die

 

 

Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999), They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2011).

Book Cover Coffey

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds. North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 18 Senior Reserves and Detailed Men (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

Book Cover Catino Aggressors

 

 

Martin Scott Catino (USM PhD, 2003), The Aggressors: Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam, and the Communist Bloc (Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2010).

Book Cover Doidge Wiest Vietnam

 

 

Michael Doidge, ed. (USM PhD, 2019) and Andrew Wiest, ed. Triumph Revisited: Historians Battle for the Vietnam War (London: Routledge, 2010).

Book Cover Coffey

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds. North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 17 Junior Reserves (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

Book Cover Robins Barbier Wiest Vietnam

 

Mary Kathryn Barbier (USM PhD, 1998), Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999), and Andrew Wiest, eds. America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (London: Routledge, 2009).

Book Cover Coffey

 

 

Michael Coffey (USM PhD, 2002) and Matthew Brown, eds. North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, Volume 16 Thomas's Legion (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

Book Cover Spurgeon Man Douglas

 

 

Ian Michael Spurgeon (USM PhD, 2007), Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008).

Book Cover Barbier D-Day Deception

 

 

Mary Kathryn Barbier (USM PhD, 1998),       D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007)

Book Cover Robins Polk

 

 

Glenn Robins (USM PhD, 1999), The Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas Polk (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006).

Book Cover Apel MASH

 

 

 

Patrick Apel (USM PhD, 1998) and Otto F. Apel, MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea (Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1998).