Books
An Army Afire:
How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
University of North Carolina Press, 2023
Distinguished Book Award, 2024
Society of Military History
Collins Prize (for best book in Military History), 2023
United States Commission on Military History
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2023
America’s Army:
Making the All-Volunteer Force
“They meant to replace the logic of citizenship with the logic of the market.”
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Sex in the Heartland
“To claim the sexual revolution for the heartland as well as for the radical fringes matters because our notions about what the sexual revolution was—the stories we tell, the histories we make—are tools in our continuing negotiations over the shape of our society.”
Harvard University Press, 1999, paperback, 2002
The First Strange Place
Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii
There on a mountaintop in Hawaii, in a moment of stillness in a world at war, a woman who had never seen snow sang,
“I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.” It was her gift, and she knew it was not enough.”
Co-author David Farber, The Free Press, 1992; paperback, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
From Front Porch to Back Seat:
Courtship in 20th Century America
“Certainly we should seek our usable past, but to find answers to the current problems of American courtship
we need to go not backward but forward.”
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988; paperback 1989