Gregory JW Urwin

Gregory JW Urwin (born July 11, 1955 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American military historian . He is a professor of history at Temple University .

Life

Urwin graduated from Borromeo College in Ohio with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1977. He has master's degrees from John Carroll University (1979) and the University of Notre Dame (1981), where he received his doctorate in 1984 (The Defenders on Wake Island). During this time he was also a history teacher at St. Mary of the Plains College in Kansas . From 1984 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), where he became an Associate Professor in 1988 and was given a full professorship in 1994. In 1999 he became a professor at Temple University. In 2014 he gave the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

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He deals with American and British military history, particularly the American Civil War , American Revolutionary War and World War II , with increasing emphasis on social aspects.

His dissertation dealt with the defense of the Wake Atoll in December 1941 by the United States Marine Corps against the Japanese ( Battle for Wake ) and later the fate of the surviving US Marines in Japanese captivity. For these investigations he received the 1998 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. He was also a consultant on the documentary Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific (2003), in which he also appeared. He also appeared in the 2005 documentary series The last days of World War II (along with other historians such as Max Hastings , broadcast on the History Channel ) and in the documentary The Color Bearers (2008). In the area of the American Civil War he dealt with, among other things, George Armstrong Custer's civil war career and racial conflicts in the armies of the Northern and Southern states, in the area of the American War of Independence with the social history of the British invasion of Virginia in 1781.

Urwin is the editor of the University of Oklahoma Press's Campaigns and Commanders series . He is active in the re-enactment movement, both in relation to the American Civil War, where he had the role of a Northern States officer in the Frontier Brigade until 1999 and, for example, was a Northern States officer and historical advisor in the feature film Glory from 2002 of the American Revolutionary War (personifying a British officer of the Royal Welch Fusiliers).

Honors and memberships

Urwin is President of the Society for Military History from 2013 to 2015 . He received the 1997 Harold L. Peterson Award of the Eastern National Park and Monuments Association (named after the chief curator of the National Park Service and historian Harold L. Peterson (1922–1978)) for his essay We Cannot Treat Negroes. . . as Prisoners of War in 1996. In 2004, he gave the George Bancroft Memorial Lecture at the United States Naval Academy .

Fonts

Books:

Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941–1945 , Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
Editor: Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War , Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Editor with Cathy Kunzinger Urwin of AF Sperry: History of the 33d Iowa Infantry Volunteer Regiment, 1863-6 , Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999
Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island , Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, Paperback 2002
Wake Island in World War II: An Annotated Bibliography , US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command 1996.
The United States Infantry: An Illustrated History, 1775-1918 , University of Oklahoma Press 1988, 2000
Editor with Roberta E. Fagan: Custer and His Times: Book Three , University of Central Arkansas Press 1987
The United States Cavalry: An Illustrated History , Blandford Press 1983, Red River Books 2003
Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer , New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983, paperback 1990; Reprint., New York: Blue & Gray Press, 1996.

Some essays and book contributions:

When Freedom Wore a Red Coat: How Cornwallis 1781 Campaign Threatened the Revolution in Virginia, Army History: The Professional Bulletin of Army History 20, Summer 2008, pp. 6-23.
Cornwallis and the Slaves of Virginia: A New Look at the Yorktown Campaign, in John A. Lynn (Ed.), ACTA, International Commission of Military History, XXVIII Congress: Coming to the Americas, 2003
Poison Spring and Jenkins' Ferry: Racial Atrocities during the Camden Expedition, in Mark K. Chris (Ed.) "All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell": The Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring , Little Rock : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and August House, 2003
The Army of the Constitution: The Historical Context, in Max G. Manwaring, (ed.) . . . To Insure Domestic Tranquility, Provide for the Common Defense. . . : Papers from the Conference on Homeland Protection 2000, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2000, pp. 27-62.
The Defenders of Wake Island and Their Two Wars, 1941-1945, Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, Winter 1991, pp. 368-381
"The Lord Has Not Forsaken Me and I Won't Forsake Him": Religion in Frederick Steele's Union Army, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, 1993, pp. 318-340
Custer: The Civil War Years, in Paul A. Hutton (Ed.), The Custer Reader , University of Nebraska Press 1992, pp. 7-32
"We Cannot Treat Negroes. . . as Prisoners of War ": Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in Civil War Arkansas, Civil War History, Volume 42, 1996, pp. 193-210

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SURNAME	Urwin, Gregory JW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cleveland , Ohio