Robert M. Wesser

26th May 2022

The Challenge of John F. Kennedy’s ‘Strategy of Peace’ in Cold War America

Confronted with the obstacles of American Cold War politics in the 1950s and 60s, JFK pursued an aggressive foreign policy to develop of the third world and initiate détente with the USSR.

1st May 2022

The 20th Maine and the Defense of Little Round Top

On July 2, 1863 the 20th Maine Regiment held the far left of the Union line on Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

6th April 2022

Stanley Elkins’ Slavery Revisited

In 1959, American historian Stanley Elkins offered a new approach to analyzing the issue of American slavery. This is where he was wrong.

15th February 2022

A Review of John F. Kennedy’s 1960 The Strategy of Peace

28th January 2022

The United States Constitution Was Never a ‘Pro-Slavery’ Document

"I…deny that the Constitution guarantees the right to hold property in man..." Frederick Douglass, 1860.

2nd December 2021

The Early U.S. Military Academy at West Point as a Nation Building Institution

2nd December 2021

The Second Battle of Saratoga: Burgoyne’s ‘High Water Mark’

25th November 2021

The American Revolution: “Almost a Miracle”

15th April 2021

Tammany Hall: From the Sidewalks of New York to the New Deal

14th April 2021

The Changing Historiography of President Ulysses S. Grant and Reconstruction