Militia and the National Guard in America Since Colonial Times

JERRY COOPER, Professor of History, University of Missouri at St. Louis, is the recognized authority on the subject of the American militia and the National Guard. He served formally as the Harold K. Johnson Professor at the Army War College. He is the author of The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1990 (Greenwood Press, 1980) and is completing a history of the National Guard, which is forthcoming from Greenwood Press. He also co-authored with Glenn Smith, Citizens as Soldiers: A History of the North Dakota National Guard (1986).

• Series Foreword by Roger J. SpillerIntroductionThe Historiography of the Militia and National GuardGeneral WorksThe Militia in Colonial America, 1607-1774The Militia in the Revolution and the Early Republic, 1775-1815The Militia, 1816-1865The Rise of the National Guard, 1866-1899The Era of Reform and World War, 1900-1919The National Guard Under Federal Control, 1920-1980African Americans in the Militia and National GuardResearching the Militia and National GuardAuthor IndexSubject Index