Financing American War Orders

Unconventional Warfare in the American Civil War

Limited War and American Political Engagement

Prior studies of war and political engagement focus on mass mobilizing, successful conflicts and treat war as a monolithic variable affecting all Americans equally. In this study, we analyze the more limited, less successful conflicts prevalent since 1945, and we examine the influence of disparities in local communities’ casualty rates on their residents’ patterns of political engagement. Using...

Veterinary medicine and the American Civil War.

American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War

A great convergence of cartography, secrecy, and power occurred during the Cold War. In the American case, a complex series of interactions between secret and classified programs and institutions and their publicly accessible counterparts accomplished both traditional and novel objectives of military geographic intelligence. This process also yielded the World Geodetic System, a masscentered “f...

Immunization financing: key area for American Academy of Pediatrics advocacy.

After reading these very informative articles, I cannot help but imagine that, if I were a business person charged with organizing a pediatric practice, I would immediately eliminate immunizations from the menu of services offered. However, immunizations are the most effective public health tool ever invented. They are the backbone of preventive pediatrics and the most valuable “carrots” pediat...