During America's participation in World War I, 1917-1918, only a single commander of a division, William M. Wright, is known to have kept a diary. In it, General Wright relates his two-month experience at St. Mihiel and especially the Meuse-Argonne, the largest and most costly battle in American history.

In five case studies of US Army doctrine, Peter Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas - nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions - and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict.

Drawing on a wide range of sources - including maps, daguerreotypes, real estate deeds, court records, travelers’ accounts, scientific treatises, government records, and personal correspondence - Patricia Cleary explores the layers of the Indigenous history of St. Louis.