Course Assignments 
This course is divided into ten units. On the basis of your reading of the textbook and other sources, you will answer questions (complete sentences and paragraphs) and identify terms (description and significance) relating to them. The answers should be thorough, but not necessarily long, and double spaced. In addition each student will abstract ten articles from the reader. Each abstract should be approximately two double-spaced typed pages (600 words). Do the appropriate article for each unit (Unit I-- Article 1). Finally, each student will prepare a review of a book that will be chosen by the instructor.
The units for the course are as follows:
2. Unit II: The American Revolution
3. Unit III: Military Aspects of the New Republic
4. Unit IV: Evolution of the American Military, 1815-1860
6. Unit VI: Army and Navy, 1865-1917
8. Unit VIII: The Interwar Years
10. Unit X: Cold War and Hot War
The articles from the reader (Morris) to be abstracted are as follows:
1. Eric Niderost, The Siege of Louisbourg, 1745.
2. Thomas Fleming, George Washington, General.
3. Gerald T. Altoff, The Battle of Lake Erie: A Narrative.
4. William Skelton, Officers and Politicians: The Origins of Army Politics in the United States before the Civil War.
5. John McMahon, Civil War Weapons and Tactics.
6. David R. Kohler and James Wensyel, Our First Southeast Asian War
7. Thomas Fleming, Iron General.
8. David E. Johnson, Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917-1945.
9. Conrad Crane, Evolution of U.S. Strategic Bombing of Urban Areas.
10. David McCullough, Truman Fires MacArthur.
11. Norman Friedman, The Mother of All Battles (extra credit).