SAH Commons | Barbara Gannon | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/bgannon/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Barbara Gannon is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:05:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1af048b243eb8f1f7ce9944e8725be8d Kimberly K. Dougherty posted an update in the group War Studies: I was honored to sign books at the Authors Connect booth, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1883337/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:17:09 -0400 I was honored to sign books at the Authors Connect booth, Women in Aviation International, 2024 in Orlando last month. What esteemed company, I signed next to authors Eileen Bjorkman, USAF flight test engineer, and Caroline “Blaze” Jensen, former Thunderbird pilot!…[Read more]

]]> 0 f94a02e7470f611f841bb4ce566b18cc Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Die Protokolle des cisleithanischen Ministerrates 1867–1918, VIII/1: 1914–1918, Teilband 1: 1914–1916 in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882913/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:21 -0400 Am 23. Juli 1914 unterrichtete Ministerpräsident Karl Stürgkh den Ministerrat Cisleithaniens von der Übergabe des österreichisch-ungarischen Ultimatums an Serbien. Am 22. November 1916 fand in der ersten Sitzung nur die „Trauerkundgebung anlässlich des Hinscheidens Sr. Majestät Kaiser Franz Joseph I.“ statt.

Die Sitzungsprotokolle des Minis…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d39fa928a2f350f2b3756b7354ec6b3 Mark R. Stoneman deposited The Bavarian Army and French Civilians in the War of 1870-1871: A Cultural Interpretation in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791888/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:23:50 -0400 This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had with French civilians during the Franco-Prussian War, when civilians provided food, fodder and quarters to the invading armies and sometimes took up arms against them. Relying mainly on published personal narratives, this article looks at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb3dc400b7931a8ec2e64cec3bfaad5e Mark R. Stoneman deposited Die deutschen Greueltaten im Krieg 1870/71 am Beispiel der Bayern in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791692/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:16 -0400 This chapter focuses on German soldiers and French civilians in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, using the example of the Bavarian contingent. It examines why soldiers sometimes departed from generally accepted standards in Europe about sparing civilians the effects of war as much as possible.

]]> 0 234f37b37645776e443a6d25e622e980 Mark R. Stoneman deposited Bürgerliche und adlige Krieger: Zum Verhältnis zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Berufskultur im wilhelminischen Offizierkorps in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791689/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:24:03 -0400 This essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5225d23ee178e3a96871102f2208ef6 Christopher Joseph Helali deposited No Pasaran! An Interview on the History and Politics of Anti-fascism with Mark Bray in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711899/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:23:58 -0400 Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe as well as a political organizer. This interview outlines what fascism is, the history of anti-fascist resistance, the debate surrounding free-speech, anti-imperialism, World War II, and the Trump Era.

Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd0087350db13a97d2438b5d1235afe3 Christopher Joseph Helali deposited The Deafening Silence of the Unburied Dead: The Greek Civil War and Historical Trauma in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1697987/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:15:24 -0400 While World War II was still raging in Europe and the Pacific, the onset of the Greek Civil War in December 1944 marked the beginning of the Cold War. For the people of Greece, the civil war would continue the devastation that the Italian, German, and Bulgarian occupations had initiated. The civil war’s catastrophic cleavages in Greek society are…[Read more]

]]> 0 cca0efd6a3925d47e46925eb0462b4d2 Rodney Swan deposited Contrée: Picasso’s visual fragmented tailpieces emphasise the poetry of Robert Desnos. in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1664191/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:25:35 -0400 Completed in early 1944, Robert Desnos’s militant series of 25 poems in Contrée evokes memories of a lost peace and calls for the defeat of the German occupiers. Suggesting the desecration of the human body by the occupiers, Picasso cut his cubist–surrealist frontispiece etching of Dora Marr to produce severed heads and dismembered body part…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d5419bcfc719a3183432cd0d7a6fd6e David Brady deposited The Most Urgent Priorities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662001/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:25:21 -0400 In post-conflict reconstruction there are many tasks that need to be accomplished. Immediate,
medium‐term, and long-term priorities need addressed by multiple national and international
stakeholders, all wanting their interests satisfied. This situation poses a question “what are the
most urgent priorities in post-conflict rec…[Read more]

]]> 0 f958ce49e96c40de1b5a219008b6ecc1 Rodney Swan deposited Henri Matisse’s Jazz: The Mystery of The Codomas in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659758/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:26:13 -0400 In addition to the enigmatic The Codomas, Henri Matisse distinguished three other images with a name, Icarus, Monsieur Loyal and Pierrot’s Funeral for his landmark livre d’artiste Jazz. While the characters Loyal, Pierrot and Icarus were readily identifiable and the images could be interpreted within the context of the difficulties of the Ger…[Read more]

]]> 0 9024c2eeaaca3f385d3869827690d501 Rodney Swan deposited Symbolism and Allusion in Matisse’s Jazz in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659300/ Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:25:43 -0400 Henri Matisse’s images in Jazz, created during the disruption of the German Occupation of France, were embedded with symbols of cultural resistance, while his text, which he composed after the defeat of the Germans, reflected the transition to a post-Liberation France. The wartime symbols and allusions camouflaged within these images are readily r…[Read more]

]]> 0 797ff3341375e0fb46b64e7e3f8c18a5 David Brady deposited Post Cold War and International Humanitarian Law in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643547/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 16:32:01 -0400 How Changes in the Nature and Conduct of Warfare Since the End of the Cold War Affected the Relevance and Applicability of International Humanitarian Law. The end of the Cold War dramatically changed the focus of world politics, the Geneva Conferences, the nature and conduct of warfare and the relevance of international humanitarian law. The rise…[Read more]

]]> 0 27465f6078530182208052b3f9e98783 Kimberly K. Dougherty deposited "A Death Like the Rebel Angels": Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers' Pay in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1642261/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:54:35 -0400 This essay explores the challenge to the chivalric myth of the aviator in Willa Cather’s One of Ours and William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay. Revived during the First World War, this romantic myth cloaked the aviator in idealism and hid the actual body of the flyer in rhetoric. In this war of increasing mechanization, the air war was the last basti…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9107eb9e55312608b9d34ea07773f79 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump (Counterpunch, 2016) in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627501/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:25:22 -0500 Will a Trump presidency help to bring an end to the status quo? This essay, first published on Counterpunch days after the 2016 election, considers that possibility with reference to the long history of US interventions abroad.

]]> 0 f23926ee3391a91b4bd1c2b345addc34 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited "The Jurisprudence of 9/11 and its Aftermath" (Fall 2018 Syllabus) in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1619904/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:36:20 -0400 Module Summary: Using the aftermath of 9/11 and the US invasion of Iraq as a case study, this module asks why states engage in torture, giving particular consideration to why liberal states euphemise, conceal, and downplay this practice. We will examine the ramifications of 9/11 across multiple legal domains, domestically within the US and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4df8b5b3cd0d0db949a4659256132c6 Barbara Gannon posted an update in the group American Civil War: Hey Gang, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1618382/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:07:34 -0400 Hey Gang, https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22United+States.+Bureau+of+Refugees%2C+Freedmen%2C+and+Abandoned+Lands%22

]]> 1 815a81b94a5e53feaf0b4572ddeb1f0d David Brady deposited Distinction Between Civilian and Non Civilian in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610401/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 04:14:17 -0400 Throughout antiquity there has always been the tension between differentiating being civilians and non-civilians in conflict. In some of the earliest recorded times in history we have stories of the Israelites marching around Jericho and bringing its walls down, barbarian tribes facing off with Romans, peasants storming castles, and modern era…[Read more]

]]> 0 dafe25bba2c6a19b044d179c7fe15d1b Catherine Liu deposited "Taiwan's Cold War Geopolitics in Edward Yang's The Terrorizers" in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600050/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:12:28 -0500 Discussion of the historiography of the reception of Edward Yang’s film and the specificity of it in terms of documenting Cold War Taipei, a tightly surveilled city torn and its emergence as a modern city with a critique of Fredric Jameson’s reading of the film.

]]> 0 18a1a8524d121128c5cca7c43d08b29d Karla Vanraepenbusch deposited A comparative look at a centenary. A review of World War I commemorative events in Brussels in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598640/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 04:13:42 -0500 The centenary of World War I has marked an abrupt change: historical events will never be commemorated in the same way, especially in Belgium. The federated entities have demonstrated the autonomous role which they intend to play in future events of this type. The Brussels-Capital Region was not outdone. While the political choice to be directly…[Read more]

]]> 0 acabb6f254831e8fab01be432e8b78ba Karla Vanraepenbusch deposited Regards croisés sur un Centenaire. Un premier bilan des commémorations de la Première Guerre mondiale à Bruxelles in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598639/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 04:13:42 -0500 Le Centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale marque une rupture : on ne commémorera plus jamais de la même manière les événements historiques, tout particulièrement en Belgique. Les entités fédérées y ont démontré le rôle qu’elles entendaient désormais jouer, en toute autonomie, dans de futurs événements de ce type. La Région de Bruxelles-capita…[Read more]

]]> 0 83c292792e2fd5cf8ca45ea9c3697fe5 Karla Vanraepenbusch deposited Mémorial interallié in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598637/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 04:13:40 -0500 The inter-allied memorial commemorates the First World War and the fallen, as well as the wartime cooperation between the Allies. Its inter-allied character and its scale make this memorial one of a kind.

]]> 0 bc1df3fbc6a3cc2b45ec561a60c9df22 Daniel Belgrad deposited Dancing with Knives: American Cold War Ideology in the Dances of West Side Story in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597775/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:24:57 -0500 In cultural studies today, there is emerging an interpretive revolution “from below” – that is, a radical reassessment of the politics of cultural forms, based on a recovery of the embodied and affective subject as the center of meaning-making. Making sense of dance performances is therefore methodologically important because of their parti…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b549d3705f63a74a66915986a787748 Ibrahim S. Amin deposited The History of Grappling in the Western World in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596375/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:36:19 -0500 A study of grappling (both athletic and martial) from ancient Egypt to Victorian England. It was written as a Classics & Ancient History PhD thesis, so half the verbiage focuses on the ancient world.

]]> 0 eee9d187c2442143802f2f399a56c3b2 Mike Bishop deposited Lorica Segmentata Volume I: A Handbook of Articulated Roman Plate Armour in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594821/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:40:23 -0500 This monograph is the first in-depth examination of articulated Roman plate armour since H. Russell Robinson published his ground-breaking reconstructions of lorica segmentata in The Armour of Imperial Rome. With detailed discussion of all the significant evidence (including previously unpublished material), the book looks at each of the principal…[Read more]

]]> 0 a430d0b1751074d79ef943c71d79d894 Madiha Tahir deposited The Containment Zone in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1586413/ Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:03:08 -0400 This article discusses the labor on the ground in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas that sustains U.S. bombardment of that region. It argues that the relations on the ground co-constitute with the time-space compression of drone warfare.

]]> 0 c11d2abe2d56b1c829691967db1eae3e Michael D'Alessandro deposited War Studies Primer - an introductory course on the study of war and military history in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1582534/ Fri, 22 Sep 2017 01:04:00 -0400 War Studies Primer is an introductory course on the study of war and military history. It is available at http://www.warstudiesprimer.org under a Creative Commons license.

]]> 0 14e84a1b7d6eaee1600e76733fa0903e Gavin Robinson deposited Horse Supply and the Development of the New Model Army, 1642-1646 in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579767/ Sat, 26 Aug 2017 01:00:16 -0400 The debate over whether the creation of the New Model Army represented continuity or change in the supply systems of parliamentarian armies has suffered from a lack of detailed research on the Earl of Essex’s army. This article begins to redress the balance by examining the supply of horses and saddles to the armies of Essex, Manchester, Waller, a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cbddfeb5ceea5a45ce0bf23f580350b Nicky Agate deposited Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of U.S. Consumer Identity in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571447/ Wed, 24 May 2017 01:00:11 -0400 For most people in the United States, war is almost always elsewhere. Since the Civil War, declared wars have been engaged on terrains at a distance from the continental space of the nation. Until the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon in September 2001, many people in the United States perceived war to be conflicts between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 776810fa98d1b04d0bf0dc5953defe5b Alice White deposited British Army Area Commands & Command Psychiatrists (Appendix E) in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568338/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This illustrates the psychiatrists who were appointed to Area Commands in the British Army during the Second World War, along with their commanding officers and other psychological staff at that Command. I found it a challenge to pin down people to places and times when researching my PhD – hopefully this will save others some trouble!

]]> 0 a9cb0f1c54dfc8c7439f565a0c469229 Alice White deposited Who's Who of WWII Army Psychiatry (Appendix B) in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568336/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:10 -0400 This appendix gives a brief summary of the role of some individuals who did work connected with Army psychiatry in Second World War Britain (particularly the development of schemes of officer selection and POW rehabilitation). The data was compiled from biographies, autobiographies, obituaries, census information, letters and articles published in…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bd9b7ed44ad405ee586272b8bbedd74 Alice White deposited Interactive Map of Psychiatric Services in WWII Britain (Appendix D) in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568334/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:09 -0400 This map illustrates the locations of Command Psychiatrists, War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs), Civil Resettlement Units (CRUs), Area Psychiatrists, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Neurosis Centres, Military Mental Hospitals, Military Mental Hospitals for Women, and Military Psychiatric Hospitals. I have made the map interactive so different…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e2acfe54fca15158b9e952e2c94fd17 Alice White deposited Double Review of Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind and Solovey, Shaky Foundations in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568332/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:09 -0400 Review Published in The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 49, March 2016 http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0007087416000182 Both The Open Mind and Shaky Foundations offer interesting insights into scholarship in Cold War North America, documenting a variety of political, institutional and social influences upon the social…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbcff34a51198d3855d35abf73dbae73 Alice White deposited Science, Technology, or Medicine? The Case of the Construction of Officer Selection Tests for the British Army in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568331/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:09 -0400 Military historians have debated the role of the War Office Selection Board (WOSB) in creating a “People’s Army” and democratising the British military during the Second World War. The role of these boards in reconfiguring the identity of the psychiatrist and the boundaries of their expertise in mid-twentieth century Britain, however, has been lar…[Read more]

]]> 0 30b15ed2fcac4a87471c117a95bf3cd0 Alice White deposited Silence and Selection: the "trick cyclist" at the War Office Selection Boards in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568328/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:00:09 -0400 In 1939, psychiatrists wrote to the War Office of Britain to offer up their services in the likely event of war. The response? A resounding silence. This unpromising start marked the first words (and the first silence) in a discussion of psychological science that would span the war. The ” trick cyclist ” , or psychiatrist, was a controversial…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb3c27388d735cce9a247d4122797a23 David Brady deposited Late 20th Century Thought On Warfare in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567337/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:00:03 -0400 How we, as Americans, see warfare in our late 20th century mindset.

]]> 0 43e325cfd9e944e17975a3700a1c2063 David Brady deposited Chaplain Identity in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567336/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:00:03 -0400 Because the profession of chaplaincy has significant challenges in balancing ones spiritual life while providing spiritual resiliency to ones Soldiers, a chaplain must have an identity that is God centered, self-knowing and Soldier focused. In our stressful military world, we are often pushed and pulled in different ways. At times these ways can…[Read more]

]]> 0 959fd32fb88e700c3ddcdc85b5b09d27 David Brady deposited Military History - Argumentative Essay in the group War Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567334/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:00:02 -0400 The warfare in the Napoleonic era is fundamentally similar to warfare practiced today.

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