Introduction: The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) remains one of the most complex and devastating conflicts in European history, its origins debated extensively by historians seeking to classify its primary cause as either religious or political. Traditional narratives...

Introduction: From the trenches of the Western Front to the jungles of Vietnam and the geopolitical standoff of the Cold War, the 20th century transformed the United States through a succession of conflicts whose effects reshaped nearly every dimension of American...

War and the Making of the American State in the 19th CenturyIntroduction:From the colonial frontier to the battlefields of Gettysburg, war has been both a crucible and a mirror for the American experiment. Historians from Charles Tilly to Allan Millett have long...