About the website
Completed sections:
- The War of 1812 – Roger Peace (January 2016)
- The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 – Roger Peace (May 2016)
- The War of 1898 and the U.S.-Filipino War, 1899-1902 – Brian D’Haeseleer and Roger Peace (September 2016)
- The Korean War – Jeremy Kuzmarov (September 2016)
- The Vietnam War – Roger Peace, John Marciano, and Jeremy Kuzmarov, with contributions from Howie Machtinger (Veterans for Peace) and Jessica Frazier, Asst. Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island, and readers Anne Meisenzahl, Brian D’Haeseleer, Tom Clark (June 2017)
- “Yankee imperialism,” 1901-1934 – Roger Peace, with contributions from Ann Jefferson, History Lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Marc Becker, Professor of Latin American History, Truman State University, and readers Anne Meisenzahl and Erin Meisenzahl-Peace (January 2018)
- Central America Wars, 1980s – Virginia S. Williams, Roger Peace, and Jeremy Kuzmarov, with contributions from Brian D’Haeseleer, Richard Grossman, Latin American History Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, and Michael Schmidli, Professor of U.S. Foreign Relations at Bucknell University (March 2018)
About the authors
Brian D’Haeseleer
Co-author of “The War of 1898 and the U.S.-Filipino War, 1899-1902,” Brian D’Haeseleer is Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Lyon College. His research interests focus on U.S.-Latin American relations with an emphasis on Central America. He is the author of The Salvadoran Crucible: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992 (University Press of Kansas, November 2017).
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Author of “The Korean War” essay and co-author of other essays on this website, Jeremy Kuzmarov is the author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009) and Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation Building in the American Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012). He is the co-author, with John Marciano, of The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce (Monthly Review Press, 2018). He is active in the Historians for Peace and Democracy and the Tulsa Peace fellowship, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. He can be reached at jkuzmarov2@gmail.com.
John Marciano
Co-author of “The Vietnam War” essay, John Marciano has been an antiwar, social justice, and labor union activist since the 1960s. Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Cortland, he has written a number of books and chapters dealing with American foreign policy and education, including Teaching the Vietnam War (with William L. Griffen, 1979), Civic Illiteracy and Education (1997), and The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? (Monthly Review Press, 2016). From 2004 through 2008, he taught community courses for adults in Santa Monica, CA, centered on on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and William Appleman Williams’s Empire as a Way of Life.
Roger Peace
Website initiator and author of various sections. Roger Peace (family name) earned his doctorate in American Foreign Relations from Florida State University and taught U.S. and world history courses for 17 years. Included in this regimen were 35 “U.S. in the World” community college courses, which impelled his search for usable website resources. His motivation for developing value-based historical inquiries derives in part from having grown up in the United States during the Vietnam War; from the fact that his mother grew up in Nazi Germany during World War II; and from nearly two decades of work as a peace movement organizer, writer, and editor. He is the author of A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012). See his interview in the American Historical Association Member Spotlight (December 4, 2013).
Virginia S. Williams
Co-author of the “Central America Wars, 1980s” essay, Dr. Williams specializes in U.S.-Latin American history and 20th-century social movements in the United States and Latin America. She directs the Peace, Justice, & Conflict Resolution Studies program at Winthrop University and has served as president of the Peace History Society.