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Beth Bailey is an American historian who writes about U.S. military history and the history of gender and sexuality. Bailey is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, where she teaches in the department of history and directs the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies, which she founded [1] in 2015.
Bailey is an historian of the recent United States. Over the past decade and a half, her research has been primarily in the field of military, war, and society; she has also written extensively on the history of gender and sexuality in the modern United States.
About Me. I’m quite possibly the only scholar in the world who has directed both a Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and a Feminist Research Institute; most certainly I’m the only one who has written both a history of dating and a history of the US Army.
Jun 5, 2023 · Beth Bailey. I’m quite possibly the only scholar in the world who has directed both a Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and a Feminist Research Institute; most certainly I’m the only one who has written both a history of dating and a history of the US Army.
Drawing on an impressive array of untapped sources, Beth Bailey has crafted an incisive history of the racial conflicts that raged during the Vietnam War era. By exploring this "war within the war," Bailey highlights the stories of dozens of Black soldiers who reshaped the US Army from the inside.
Foundation Professor. Director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies. University of Kansas.
May 2, 2023 · Beth Bailey is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas and director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies.
Jan 1, 2005 · Associate and Assistant Professor and Director of American Studies Program, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1989-97. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas, 1987–89. Expertise. War and American culture/society; 20th century American cultural and social history, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Show More
Nov 23, 2009 · The author of previous books on the history of dating and on the sexual revolution in Kansas, Beth L. Bailey recounts the checkered history of the all-volunteer Army from President Nixon's opportunistic promise to end the draft during the divisive Vietnam War to the current travails of fighting simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with an ...
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An Army Afire is a groundbreaking book by one of America's best military historians. Drawing on an impressive array of untapped sources, Beth Bailey has crafted an incisive history of the racial conflicts that raged during the Vietnam War era.
