West Point : two centuries and beyond / edited by Lance Betros.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Betros, Lance, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States Military Academy--History--Congresses.

United States Military Academy.

United States Military Academy--Influence--Congresses.

United States Military Academy--Alumni and alumnae--Biography--Congresses.

United States. Army--Congresses.

United States.

United States. Army.

Alumni and alumnae.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

623 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abilene, Tex. : McWhiney Foundation Press, [2004]

Contents:

Part I. West Point and officer professionalism. West Point and officer professionalism, 1817-1877 / William B. Skelton

West Point's contribution to the Army and to professionalism, 1877 to 1917 / Theodore J. Crackel

Part II. Distinguished West Pointers. General George S. Patton, Jr., at West Point, 1904-1909 / Carlo D'Este

Henry H. Arnold at West Point, 1903-1907 / Dik Alan Daso

Leslie R. Groves, West Point, and the atomic bomb / Robert S. Norris

Principled leadership : Creighton Williams Abrams, class of 1936 / Lewis Sorley

Part III. Challenges and changes. West Point, the Jacksonians, and the Army's controversial role in national improvements / Robert P. Wettemann, Jr.

The rocky road to reform : John M. Schofield at West Point, 1876-1881 / Donald B. Connelly

The West Point centennial : a time for healing / Frank J. Walton

Challenge and change : West Point and the Cold War / Brian McAllister Linn

West Point and the post-Cold War drawdown / Gerardo V. Meneses

Part IV. Women and minorities. The trial, tribulation, and pardon of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, USMA 1877 / Thomas M. Carhart III

Chinese cadets at West Point / Charles D. Krumwiede

The lives of West Point's Buffalo Soldiers / Tanya Kabel-Ballard

The crucible of duty : West Point, women, and social change / Lance Janda

Part V. Educating future leaders. The evolving USMA academic curriculum, 1952-2002 / George B. Forsythe and Bruce Keith

The history of history at West Point / Robert A. Doughty and Theodore J. Crackel

Evolution of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at USMA / Peter Anderson and James B. Dalton, Jr.

Evolution of sociology at West Point, 1963-2001 / Morten G. Ender and Thomas A. Kolditz

The history of law instruction at West Point / Patrick Finnegan

Teaching foreign languages at West Point / Patricia B. Genung

National security studies at West Point / Jay M. Parker

Computing at West Point : revolution to purposeful evolution / Kenneth L. Alford ... [et al.]

201 years of mathematics at West Point / V. Frederick Rickey and Amy Shell-Gellasch.

Notes:

Includes papers from a conference held 7-9 March, 2002 at the Academy.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1893114473

OCLC:

56733367