Introduction to Military History

To complete this course, you are advised to visit MilitaryHistoryOnline.com. The following is the curriculum:


 * Medieval Era


 * Assignments:
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Read Medieval Mercenaries: The Business of War, Cavalier Generals: King Charles I And His Commanders In The English Civil War 1642-46, The British Civil War : The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660, Armada 1588, The Battle of Marston Moor, The Civil War in South-West England 1642-1646


 * 17th and 18th Century


 * Assignments:
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Read Cavalier Generals: King Charles I And His Commanders In The English Civil War 1642-46, The British Civil War : The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660, Battles of the Revolutionary War, Fight for Freedom


 * The 19th Century


 * Assignments:
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study Napoleon.
 * 3) Read The Defence of Lucknow: T.F. Wilson's Memoir of the Indian Mutiny, 1857, From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816, Charge! Great Cavalry Charges of the Napoleonic Wars, The Campaigns of Napoleon, Napoleon's Road to Glory, The Age of Napoleon


 * American Civil War
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study the American Civil War.
 * 3) Study the battles of the American Civil War.
 * 4) Historic Photos of Petersburg, Historic Photos of Gettysburg, Atlas of the Civil War, These Honored Dead, Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg, The Stand of the US Army at Gettysburg, Gettysburg
 * 5) Watch Gettysburg and Stories of Valor - Civil War Minutes® III DVD Box Set (2 Discs), Horses of Gettysburg - Civil War Minutes® IV Box Set (2 Discs), Lincoln and Lee at Antietam - The Cost of Freedom


 * World War I
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study World War I
 * 3) Study the battles of World War I
 * 4) Read The Campaign of the Marne, Sagittarius Rising, The First World War : Volume I: To Arms, Twelve Days on the Somme : A Memoir of the Trenches November 1916, World War I, Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I
 * 5) Watch the movie The Lost Battalion


 * World War II
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study World War II
 * 3) Study the battles of World War II
 * 4) Read The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, First to the Rhine: The 6th Army Group in World War II, Guadalcanal: The U.S. Marines in World War II: A Pictorial Tribute, America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II, Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting & Dive Bombing in World War II, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring, Iwo Jima Recon: The U.S. Navy at War, February 17, 1945, Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953, The Unknown Battle of Midway
 * 5) Watch any movies on World War II.
 * 6) Extra Credit: Play a game of Axis and Allies Revised Edition.


 * Korea
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study the Korean War.
 * 3) Study the battles of the Korean War.
 * 4) Read The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism, Korean War, Korea: The First War We Lost


 * 'Vietnam
 * 1) Read all the essays.
 * 2) Study the Vietnam War
 * 3) Study the battles of the Vietnam War.
 * 4) Read Marines in Hue City: A Portrait of Urban Combat, Tet 1968, Where We Were in Vietnam, Larry Burrows Vietnam, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon


 * When you are finished with all these assignments, make a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer will help you with future assignments and it will be good knowledge to have.
 * Another great website to go to is Olive-Drab.com. This website will tell you more about the U.S. Military and the wars the U.S. fought.

School and Department Links

 * Department of Military History
 * School of History