Prof. Edwin E. Moise
Office: Hardin 102
Cell: 650-8845
e-mail: eemoise@clemson.edu
Messages can be left in my mailbox in Hardin 124, or in the box on my office door.
Office Hours: I will try to be in my office at the following hours. It is possible that I may occasionally miss office hours, but on the other hand, I will be in my office, and available to you, at a lot of other times. E-mail me, or just check and see if my door is open.
Monday 2:30-3:20
Tuesday 11:00-12:00, 2:00-3:15
Wednesday 10:10-11:00, 2:30-3:20
Thursday (none)
Friday (none)
I do not emphasize trivial factual details in this course. On tests and quizzes I will NOT ask you to tell me the dates of the battle of Arnhem, or the names of the commanders in it. There are some facts you need to know, but they are more important things than dates and names. On the other hand, I will expect you to get an idea of the sequence of events, what came first and what came later.
The most important single part of your grade will be the course paper. You can write it on whatever topic you please, within the limit of the subject matter of this course. The papers should be at least eight pages long typed double spaced for the actual text (not including title page, maps, illustrations, or Works Cited page). Longer papers are acceptable.
For more detailed guidelines on the term paper, see Writing a Term Paper in Military History.
The paper is due Wednesday, April 20. I request that you turn it in electronically through Blackboard, which records the date you submitted it. If Blackboard says it was turned in on April 20 (in other words, if it got in before midnight), it will be considered on time. There will be a five point penalty if the paper is submitted on April 21 or 22. The penalty will be fifteen points if it is not in by midnight April 22.
You can have a pretty free choice of topics for this paper, within the limits of the subject matter of this course. You must come in and talk to me about your paper, and discuss the sources you will be using. It is not enough to say to me as we are walking out of the classroom one morning "Professor Moise, is it OK if I write about the Battle of Chancellorsville?" You will need to talk things over with me for ten or fifteen minutes, not just a few seconds. After we have talked, I will give you a topic sheet, which you will then fill out and return to me. The sheet should describe your topic, with a list of the main sources you plan to use. There will be a five point penalty if you have not given this to me by March 7, and an additional five points if it is not in by March 21. If it still is not in by March 28, I will either give you yet another five-point penalty, or else simply hand you a sheet of paper telling you what topic you must write on, and what sources you must use.
If you give me a preliminary draft of your paper (preferably as an e-mail attachment) by April 13, I will look it over and give you suggestions about how you could improve it.
The paper is worth 150 points. The other written work will be:
--Two
newspaper research exercises, worth 40 points each.
--One essay quiz (20 points).
--The midterm test (70 points)
and the final exam (120 points),
which will be mostly essay questions.
This adds up to 440 points for the course.
The basic grade scale is that 90% (396 points) is the bottom of the
A range, 80% (352 points) is the bottom of the B range, and so on. Sometimes
I alter the scale in the students' favor, never against them.
Thus 396 points is a guaranteed A; 392 or even 388 points might be an A, if the
average for the class is low.
Academic integrity requires that we not try to pass off other people's work as our own. The ways students have gotten into problems of academic dishonesty in this course, in past years, have been:
Large portions of a term paper copied from a book or web site, without any indication that the material was copied. Typically this involves both large amounts of material quoted word-for-word, without quotation marks, and also a serious shortage of source notes pointing to the book from which the material came. Often there are misleading source notes claiming the material came from some source other than the one from which it was actually copied word-for-word. These false source notes are especially strong evidence that the copying was dishonesty and not just carelessness.
Whole term paper obtained from some source (a commercial term paper service, or the Internet, or the collection of term papers that one of the fraternities used to have, and may still have).
One student copies another student's 40-point newspaper research exercise, maybe changing a few words and substituting synonyms, but leaving the two papers still so similar that it is obvious the resemblance could not be coincidence. I would be likely to bring charges both against the student who copied and the student who allowed his or her paper to be copied.
If a student copied a paper from someplace without citing that source, but rephrased it, substituting synonyms for enough words so that the copied paper was not identical, word for word, to the original, this would still be academic dishonesty, but would be more difficult for me to prove.
There are some ways in which it is all right for students to help each other. If two students want to study together getting ready for a test, that is perfectly OK. Only after I have handed out the questions does help on a test become improper. But if two people work together on a newspaper research exercise, and turn in papers that are very similar because each has been getting a lot of help from the other in writing it, both will be in deep trouble. If one of your fellow students asks to look at your paper, to get a better idea of how the assignment was to be done, please say no. They should come to me to ask for further explanations of the assignment, rather than looking at a completed paper to give them their clues. If two papers are so similar it is obvious the author of one must have seen the other, I will file charges.
In furtherance of its Academic Integrity policy, Clemson University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism in student assignments. I will request that you submit your research papers, at the end of the semester, to Turnitin through Blackboard. You will have the right to refuse to do this, if you wish. Turnitin will provide me with an originality rating and notation of possible text or contextual matches with other source documents. Turnitin does not make any determination of plagiarism. Rather, it identifies parts of an assignment that may have significant matches with other source documents found on the Internet, in the Turnitin database, or from other sources. If matches are identified and indicate the possibility of inclusion of material that is not properly cited, I will discuss this information with you before reaching any judgment or decision.
Do not turn in a paper in this course that you have also submitted in some other course, in this semester or a previous one, without consulting me first.
Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should make an appointment with Dr. Margaret Camp (656-6848), Director of Disability Services, to discuss specific needs within the first month of classes. Students should present a Faculty Accommodation Letter from Student Disability Services when they meet with instructors. Accommodations are not retroactive and new Faculty Accommodation Letters must be presented each semester.
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Under normal circumstances, my policy is: If you do not do written work on time, then with any reasonable excuse you will be able to make it up. However, you will be marked off for lateness. You will be marked off even if your excuse is very, very good. You can avoid a penalty only if I have told you before the work was due that you would be able to do it late without penalty. 40-point short papers will not usually be accepted at all (you just get an F) if they are more than seven days late.
There will also be reading assignments that I will make available online.
January 6: Introduction to the course.
January 8: The Battle of Agincourt, 1415: One of the last important battles in which gunpowder weapons played
no significant role.
>>> Read the chapter on Agincourt in Keegan, The Face of Battle
January 11: Gunpowder weapons change the nature of battle.
January 13, 15: The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and Napoleon
>>> Keegan, The Face of Battle, pp. 117-203
Europe in 1810
Map: Waterloo
January 18: MARTIN LUTHER KING'S BIRTHDAY, NO CLASS
January 20: The War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the runup to the Civil War.
>>> Matloff, American Military History,
pp. 178-189 on the Mexican War, and
pp. 197-207 on the runup to the Civil War.
Map: The American Civil War
January 22: The Civil War Begins; QUIZ
>>> Matloff, American
Military History, pp. 207-213, on the Battle of Bull Run and its aftermath.
Map:
The Battle of Bull Run
January 25: The serious fighting begins
>>> Attack and Die, by Grady McWhiney and Perry D.
Jamieson (University of Alabama Press, 1982), Chapter One. I have placed this in the content collection for this
class on Blackboard. Under "Content" in the item "Attack and Die," click on the second of the two files, attack1.html.
Map: The Shiloh Campaign
January 27: The battles of 1863.
>>>Matloff, American
Military History, pp. 249-263, on the Battles of Chancellorsville
and Gettysburg, in the Eastern Theater, in 1863.
Map: The
Chancellorsville Campaign, up to April 30, 1863
Map: The
Gettysburg Campaign: Lee Moves North
Map: The
Gettysburg Campaign: July 1 a.m.
Map: The
Gettysburg Campaign: July 1 p.m.
Map: The
Gettysburg Campaign: July 2 p.m.
Map: Pickett's Charge,
July 3, 1863
January 29: The Civil War, 1864-65; the Franco-Prussian War
>>>Matloff, American Military History,
pp. 279-300
Map: Sherman
Advances Toward Atlanta, May-July 1864
Map: Sherman's March
Map:
Grant against Lee at Petersburg, July-August 1864
February 1: Making War More Lethal, 1871-1914
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 16
February 3: The Beginning of World War I
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 17
The Western Front: The Plans
Allied Retreat,
August 26-30
Allied Retreat,
August 30-September 5
The Battle
of the Marne
The Front
Extends to the North, and Stabilizes
February 5: World War I, 1914-1916
February 8: The Battle of the Somme, 1916
February 10: World War I: Air and Naval
Notice whose opinions you are reading. Was the item written by a journalist? If not, mention what sort of person the author was. If it was written by a
journalist, was the journalist presenting his/her own opinions, or summarizing or quoting other people's statements? If a journalist was summarizing or
quoting other people's statements, did the journalist show signs of believing those statements, or doubting them, or did the journalist not show any signs
one way or the other? I want to see one essay based on several articles, not a string of essentially separate mini-essays, each based on a single
article. Try to select articles that will allow you to have some unifying themes in your essay.
Please give source notes. I want to be able to tell in each section of your paper
which article or articles you are discussing in that section. It is not enough to have
a list at the end, if I can't tell as I read the paper which article you are discussing
where. Source notes must give page numbers. I don't care about the format of source notes as long as they tell me what
I need to know. Any format that allows me easily to discern the author's name if that was given (a lot of articles
are published without the author's name being given),
the title of the article, the title of the publication, and the date and page, is OK.
There is no requirement that you use The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, or The Times of London,
but those papers have the advantage that you can access them online through the
Clemson
Library's Databases Page. Articles from newspapers are also available onine through various other paths, such as Google News.
If you want to use weekly newsmagazines,
the easiest way is to use the ones that have been
bound into volumes, on the shelves on level 1 of the library. Some are also on microfilm.
You can either turn your essay in on Blackboard, or send it to me as an e-mail attachment. MS Word preferred.
February 12: 1917
February 15: The End of World War I
February 17: The Interwar Period and the Beginning of World war II
February 19: Germany's War Spreads more Widely
February 22: TEST
February 24: Air and Naval War; The Pacific Theater
February 26: The Mediterranean Theater; the Eastern Front
February 29, March 2: Germany in Retreat
March 4: The Defeat of Germany
Due date for term paper topic sheets: March 7
March 7: Japan in Retreat
March 9: The Defeat of Japan
March 11: The Nuclear Era
March 14, 16, 18: SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS
March 21: The Korean War
March 23: The Vietnam War: Background and Early Stages
Evaluate the attitudes
of the authors. Is there anything that leads you to distrust them, or to think that the facts may
be being distorted to fit the author's viewpoint? Notice
the source; did the reporter say that something was true, or only that somebody else had
said it was true? If you say there is bias, please make it clear exactly what was said,
that you consider biased. What kind of bias was it (false statements, or use of emotionally
loaded language, or just careful selection of facts so that only
facts favorable to one side get mentioned)? Notice what you are reading:
Notice whose opinions you are reading. Was the item written by a journalist? If not, mention what sort of person the author was. If it was written by a
journalist, was the journalist presenting his/her own opinions, or summarizing or quoting other people's statements? If a journalist was summarizing or
quoting other people's statements, did the journalist show signs of believing those statements, or doubting them, or did the journalist not show any signs
one way or the other?
I want to see one essay based on several articles, not a string of essentially separate
mini-essays, each based on a single article. Try to select articles that will allow
you to have some unifying themes in your essay.
Please give source notes. I want to be able to tell in each section of your paper
which article or articles you are discussing in that section. It is not enough to have
a list at the end, if I can't tell as I read the paper which article you are discussing
where. Source notes must give page numbers.
I don't care about the format of source notes as long as they tell me what I need to
know. Any format that allows me easily to discern the name of the author, the title of the
article, the title of the publication, and the date and page, is OK.
There is no requirement that you use The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post, or The Times of London,
but those papers have the advantage that you can access them online through the
Clemson
Library's Databases Page. There also used to be a huge variety of news articles availabel through the "archive" section of Google News, but I can
no longer find this on the Google News search page. It may still be there, somewhere.
Another possibility is to read newspapers on microfilm. The library has these microfilms in storage, so you will probably have to request them the day
before you are going to be reading them. The microfilm readers are on level 4 of the library. If you want to use weekly newsmagazines,
the easiest way is to use the ones that have been
bound into volumes, on the shelves on level 1 of the library. Some are also on microfilm.
The countryside of
northern Vietnam
The countryside of
southern Vietnam
The Mekong Delta:
Photos by Robert D. Jester
March 25: The Vietnam War: Large American combat forces
March 28: The Vietnam War: Marine Corps Counterinsurgency
March 30: The Vietnam War: Combat intensifies further, and American will cracks
April 1: The end of the Vietnam War; assorted small conflicts
April 4: Wars in the Middle East
April 6: The First US-Iraq War: Triumph achieved largely by air power
April 8: The First US-Iraq War: Ground Combat
April 11: Terrorism and the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 18
>>> Keegan, the chapter on the Battle of the Somme
Newspaper research exercise. Choose at least four articles about the fighting on the Western Front
(France and Belgium). The articles must have been published in newspapers or magazines during August 1916. You need to figure out
where the places discussed in the articles are, at least vaguely. If you choose an article that is actually about Italy or Greece
or some such place, not the Western Front, I will mark you off for it.
Write an essay of about two pages or more (typed double spaced) about what you found. How
did the press portray the military action? Say what
there was in the articles that you found interesting or surprising. Evaluate them for
bias: is there anything that leads you to distrust them, or to think that the facts may
be being distorted to fit the author's viewpoint? Do they use loaded language? Notice
the source; did the reporter say that something was true, or only that somebody else had
said it was true? If you say there is bias, please make it clear exactly what was said,
that you consider biased. Don't just use the first four articles you see that fit the assignment. Search around a bit,
and find articles that allow you to say something interesting about their content and/or tone. You would probably be better off not using very short articles;
they are seldom very interesting.
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 19
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 20
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 21
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 22
Map:
North Africa
Map:
The Eastern Front, June-August 1941
Map:
The German Advance toward Moscow, August to December 1941
Map:
The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive, December 1941 to May 1942
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 23
Map:
The Pacific Theater
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 24
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 775-796
>>> McManus, chapter 3
Map:
The Plan for Overlord (the Normandy Invasion)
Map:
The Normandy Invasion, June 6-12, 1944
Map:
Expansion of the Normandy Beachhead up to July 24
Map:
After the Breakout: August 1-13
Map:
The Drive across France, August 26 to September 14
Map:
21st Army Group Operations September 15 to December 15
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 797-808
>>> McManus, chapter 4
Map:
Battle of the Bulge, December 16-25
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 809-823
>>> McManus, chapter 1
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 824-42
>>> McManus, chapter 2
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 27
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 28
Map: The
Korean War
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 901-912
Hand in newspaper research exercise. Choose at least four articles, editorials,
or other items, about the fighting in Vietnam, and/or the
political disputes in the United States over the Vietnam War, published during August and/or September of 1963.
Write an essay of about two pages (typed double spaced), or more, about what you found. What was
there in the articles that you found interesting or surprising?
--A news article is not supposed to have too much of the reporter's own opinions in it, but
there is nothing inherently wrong with the reporter quoting the opinions of other people. If a reporter is
quoting some very opinionated person, try to judge whether the reporter agrees with the person's opinions.
--An editorial is supposed to present the opinions of the newspaper; there is
nothing inherently wrong about it being opinionated. But you can still complain about bias if the
editorial is illogical or deceptive in the way it pushes that opinion.
--The same applies to an opinion piece written by someone who does not represent the newspaper.
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 912-921
>>> McManus, Chapter 5
>>> McManus, Chapter 6
>>> McManus, Chapter 7
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 922-928
rockets.
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 929-933, 965-979, 994-1003.
Map of South America
Map of Central America and the Caribbean
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, chapter 30
>>> Moise, "Limited War"
Map of Israel
Map:
The Eastern Mediterranean Area
Map:
The Iran-Iraq War
Map: Asia
>>> Doughty, Warfare in the Western World, pp. 980-994
>>> McManus, Chapter 8
>>> James Dao and Thom Shanker,
"Special Forces, On the Ground, Aid the Rebels"
>>> Jon Lee Anderson,
"The Surrender: Double agents, defectors, disaffected Taliban,
and a motley army battle for Kunduz." The New Yorker, December 10, 2001.
>>> Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker,
"Afghans' Retreat Forced Americans to Lead a Battle", in The New York Times, March 10, 2002. I
suggest you go to ProQuest through the
Clemson
Library's Databases Page.
April 13: The United States invaded Iraq in 2003, and seemed at first to have won a quick, easy victory. But soon, heavy
fighting broke out against insurgents.
>>> McManus, Chapter 9
April 15: The insurgency in Iraq became extremely messy.
>>> McManus, Chapter 10
April 18: Progress in Iraq; Problems in Afghanistan
>>> Dexter Filkins, "Back in Iraq, Jarred by the Calm." The New York Times,
September 21, 2008, on ProQuest.
April 20: The U.S. war in Afghanistan, continued.
>>> Lt. Col. Thomas Brouns,
"Exploiting
Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan" Military Review, LXXXIX:4 (July-August 2009), pp. 10-20.
>>> Alissa J. Rubin,
"U.S. Forces Close Post in Afghan
'Valley of Death'" New York Times, April 15, 2010.
Some useful information can be found in the Afghanistan
Index but you are not required to look at this.
April 20: Submit term papers online through Blackboard
April 22: Renewed crisis in Iraq
Assignment to be added later.
Final exam: Friday, April 29, 3:00 p.m.
Other Links
Web site of the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas
Military History Atlases (U.S. Military Academy, West Point)
Selected Statistics on the Vietnam War, With a Few from Iraq
http://libproxy.clemson.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/97992709?accountid=6167
French Cavalry on the Western Front, October 1916
Revised January 5, 2016.
