PROF Samuel Watson
Contact:Phone: 845.938.3226 Email: Samuel.Watson@usma.edu
- HI 103, History of the United States to 1877
- HI 104, History of the United States since 1877
- HI 301, History of the Military Art to 1900
- HI 302, History of the Military Art since 1900
- HI 369, History of American Frontiers
- HI 381, History of Revolutionary Warfare
- HI 390, History of Early National America
- HI 395, History of Civil War America
- HI 396, The Making of Modern America, 1877-1945
- HI 398, History of American Society and Culture
- HI 498, Senior Colloquia: The History of the U.S. Army, 1783-1903; Civil War America; Civil War Generalship; the 1930s in America; the Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945
Education
- B. A., Indiana University, 1987
- M.A., Rice University, 1992
- Ph.D., Rice University, 1996
Frontier Diplomats: The Army Officer Corps in the Borderlands of the Early Republic, 1814-1846 (forthcoming, University Press of Kansas, 2011)
“Resisting Removal: Seminole Strategy, 1812-1842,” in Steve Belko, ed., America’s Hundred Years’ War: U. S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858, Essays in Honor of J. Leitch Wright, Jr. (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, forthcoming, 2010)
“Remaking the Early American Self: Eleazer Wheelock Ripley and the Dance of Ambition in the Early American Republic,” in Gene A. Smith, ed., Nexus of Empire: Loyalty and National Identity in the Gulf Borderlands, 1763-1835 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 2009)
“The U.S. Army to 1900” (historiography), in James C. Bradford, ed., The Blackwell Companion to American Military History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
Editor, The International Library of Essays in Military History: Warfare in the USA, 1784-1861 (Ashgate Publishing, 2005)
"How the Army Became Accepted: West Point Socialization, Military Accountability, and the Nation-State during the Jacksonian Era,” American Nineteenth Century History 7 (June 2006): 217-49
- American History (General)
- Military History (General)
Specialties: - U.S. Gilded Age to New Deal 1877-1945
- U.S. Early Republic to Civil War 1784-1877
- Military History 1750-1918
- Revolutionary Warfare
- American South & West
- U.S. Labor, Class Formation, & Political Economy
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