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Click here to go to the "History of the Chosin Story"
Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
70 chapters!
The Changjin Journal

NEW Chapter 70
The first indicator of Chinese determination to control the actions in the Chosin area, in effect setting the stage for their planned encirclement on all area north of the Funchilin Pass;  includes comments from various sources.


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Click here to go to Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 2
Air Force Combat Units of World War II
Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986


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Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on Operation Cobra.


 

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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series



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THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923
Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on  December 11, 1998
 


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France, 1940:
National Failure and the Uses of Defeat

David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College

Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society (New York Section)
 and The New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 10, 2002


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Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:
 Pope v. Lee:
 The Second Manassas Campaign       


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NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History Region 2.

 


Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004,  presentation
Information Warfare:
What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security
by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National Defense University  

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The Fall 2006 Conference

October 20-21, 2006
Click here for details & reading list

 

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The Battle
of the Boyne
Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy



Jessie James

Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the
 USMA at West Point

The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas


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"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio"

Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Fulltext of the recent paper
 by Bob Rowen

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Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation
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by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS


 

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Yousuf Karsh's photo portrait of Churchill taken in Ottawa in 1941

Friday evening talk
June 20, 2008
7 pm to 9 pm

Recruiting Churchill's Army
What Went Wrong?

Dan David
NYMAS

 

 

Room 6-495
CUNY Graduate Center
Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York City

 

 


NYMAS Winter-Spring 2008
CALENDAR
 as of  
Saturday, June 14, 2008 04:11 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
 

DateTopicSpeakerAffiliation
June 20Recruiting Churchill's Army - What Went Wrong? Dan DavidNYMAS


 


NEW

NYMAS Fall 2008
 CALENDAR
 as of 
Saturday, June 14, 2008 04:11 PM
 
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
Click here to print the Fall 2008 NYMAS Schedule
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DateTopicSpeakerAffiliation
Sept. 5Thieves of Baghdad: Rescuing Iraq's Stolen Antiquities during Operation Iraqi FreedomCol. Matt BogdanosUSMC Reserve
Sept. 12The Roman Navy: Its Development from Oxymoron to Ruler of the MediterraneanMark WilsonBrooklyn College
Sept. 19Hitler's Gift to FranceRobert MillerEnigma Books
Sept. 26

Transformative Military Innovation: Why Only Some Military Organizations, Some of the Time?

Wayne A. Thornton

 
Harvard University
Oct. 3Failed States, Revolution, and Democracy: 
Progressive Rationales for Military Intervention, 1914 to 1918
Jacob KramerBorough of Manhattan Community College / CUNY Graduate Center
Oct. 10Yom Kippur  
Oct. 17

The NYMAS Fall Conference
A History of U.S. Occupation Policy

Oct. 18
(Sat.)
Oct. 24Nurses in the Crimean WarMoira EganCUNY Graduate Center
Oct. 31The Use of Force to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation
 
Tim Bakken
 
Dept. of Law,
United States Military Academy at West Point
Nov. 7The 14th USAAF in China, 1944-45Paul R. MartinIndependent scholar
Nov. 14Scottish, Scots Irish, Irish, African Americans and Jews in the Battle of Baltimore, September 1814Christopher GeorgeThe War of 1812
Symposium
Nov. 21The 2d Massachusetts in the American Civil War Major Matt Hardman United States Military Academy at West Point
Nov. 28Thanksgiving
Dec. 5U.S. Military Government in Mexico, 1847-1848Major Tom SpahrUnited States Military Academy at West Point
Dec. 12
African American USMA Graduates in the Nineteenth Century
 
Major Jeremy JamesUnited States Military Academy at West Point
Dec.  19

America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror

 
Paul SpringerUnited States Military Academy at West Point

Updated Monday, Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:12 AM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance.

These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

 




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NYMAS
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 CUNY Graduate Center
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Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of  Weaponry for over 25 years
Weaponry
military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982

WBAI, 99.5 FM or online,
on Wednesday morning
(Tuesday night, if you stay up)
from 1:30 to 3:30 am.

Weaponry is now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

 




New
Newsletters from NYMAS now online
All Google & On-site searchable

No. 34 – Spring 2005
No. 35 – Summer 2005: Annual Civil War Issue
No. 36 – Winter, 2006
No. 37 – Spring 2006

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An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:
 World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko
 

 

 

NEW

The 2007 NYMAS
Book Award

The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Corps commanders
of the Bulge :
Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes by Harold R. Winton
;
 foreword by Dennis Showalter. Published/Created: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007. Description: xxiii, 504 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. ISBN: 9780700615087 (cloth : alk. paper) 0700615083 (cloth : alk. paper)

For more information, click here

 


The 2007 NYMAS
Civil War Book Award
The winner of the sixth annual NYMAS Civil War Book Award is:

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James M. McPherson
for lifetime achievement

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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
’Til I Come Marching Home
A Brief History of American Women in
World War II


by C. Kay Larson



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Beyond Blackwater:
Contractors on the Battlefield

by Raymond Kimball

A paper delivered to the NYMAS Fall Conference on October 13, 2007

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

American Privateers in
the War Of 1812


Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York


A NYMAS Fulltext ResourceClick here for Steven Zaloga's article Defending the Kremlin: The First Generation of Soviet Strategic Air Defense Systems 1950-60
 by Steven J. Zaloga
 



A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Tennessee River Campaign
Chapter IV: from
GREAT NECESSITIES:  THE LIFE, TIMES AND WRITINGS OF ANNA ELLA CARROLL,
1815-1894
by C. Kay Larson


The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32

Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The GI Offensive
in Europe

Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army

 



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Billy Mitchell

Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America

Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy



The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)

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WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND

THE SOURCES THEY USE

Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College
 


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

Springing to the Call
a Documentary View of Women in the American Civil War
edited by C. Kay Larson


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Women’s War Work
 Edited By
 Lady Randolph Churchill 1916


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America First:
the Anti-War Movement,
 Charles Lindbergh
and the Second World War
 1940-1941

Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by
David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
 

NEW

1916:
 The Year Germany Was Defeated

Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the
 USMA History Department
 at West Point

 

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