Peter Maslowski (historian)
Peter Maslowski (* 1944 ) is an American military historian. He is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln .
Maslowski studied at Miami University with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and at Ohio State University with a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in 1972. From 1974 he was a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Maslowski delves into American military history, the American Civil War, and the Vietnam War. With his former student, the crime writer Don Winslow , he wrote a book about the highly decorated soldier of the Vietnam War Joe Ronnie Hooper (1938-1979), but symptomatic of the image of the Vietnam War in the American public compared to the similarly highly decorated Audie Murphy was little known in World War II.
In 1986/87 he was John F. Morrison Professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College.
In 2010 he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize . He served on the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee and the Society for Military History Council. He is Associate Editor of the War, Society and Military series at the University of Nebraska Press .
Fonts (selection)
- with Allan R. Millett : For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America, New York: Free Press, Collier Macmillan 1984
- Armed with Cameras: The American Military Photographers of World War II, New York: Free Press, Maxwell Macmillan 1993
- with Don Winslow: Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam War, University of Nebraska Press 2004
- Treason must be made odious: military occupation and wartime reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-65, Millwood: KTO Press 1978
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Received the Medal of Honor in 1968 for his service as Delta Ranger ( 101st Airborne Division ) in Vietnam, see: Battle of Huế 1968.
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| SURNAME | Maslowski, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American military historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |