CALL FOR PAPERS
CITIZENS, SOLDIERS, AND MEN: ESSAYS ON THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN NATIONAL GUARD
America's citizen soldiers have been widely discussed in terms of the failure or success of United States military policy, viewed with contempt in relation to their military effectiveness, or examined as instruments of social control. These approaches have provided a convenient way for historians to put the "national" into the National Guard. While the new military history of the 1970s and 1980s led to a brief resurgence in interest in the Guard, studies that examine the Guard in a social and cultural context remain rare.
We seek to reposition the history of the state national guards, and the volunteers who filled their ranks, as vital actors in the fluid terrain of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century United States. We are soliciting papers on the history of state militias/national guard organizations and/or guardsmen in the United States between 1850 and 1950. The accepted essays will be published in a book co-edited by Eleanor Hannah of the History Department of the University of Minnesota Duluth and Mark A. Potter of the University of Melbourne.
We encourage submissions from scholars across fields who have discovered in the national guards a vital topic, ripe for new exploration and attention. Topics include, but are not limited too:
We encourage submissions of both new and existing work.
Please submit short cv, a 500-word abstract and selected bibliography for new work, or a copy of the already completed work, to ehannah@d.umn.edu by January 31, 2007. Following the selection process, manuscripts of up to 8,000-10,000 words (text and notes) will be due by July 1, 2007.
Please address any questions to:
Eleanor Hannah
Department of History
University of Minnesota Duluth
261 ABAH 1121 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
Mark A. Potter
Melbourne Research Office
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria,
Australia, 3010