Andrew Huebner
University of Alabama
Andrew J. Huebner is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Love and Death in the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). He is also co-editor (with John Giggie) of Dixie’s Great War (University of Alabama Press, 2020) and two forthcoming edited collections: The Cambridge History of War and Society in America (Cambridge University Press) with Jennifer Keene, and Race and Gender at War (UA Press) with Lesley Gordon. He is working on a book called “Black Man’s Burden: War, Empire, and the Road to the Houston Mutiny, 1866-1917.”
Undergraduate Syllabus
How America Fights: War and Society since 1898
This course will engage students in the study of war and American society since 1898. It is not a class about military strategy or foreign policy. Rather, we will survey the radiating impact of armed conflict and military service on individuals, communities, culture, and politics. And in the other direction, we will examine the ways fundamental features of American society (race, gender, class, citizenship, sexual orientation) influence the country’s military experience.