M. PAUL HOLSINGER is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is also the founder of the World War II area of the Popular Culture Association and organizes annual sessions about that war and its cultural representations. He has authored and edited a number of works about America's wars and popular culture, including Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture (1992) and The Ways of War: The Era of World War II in Children's and Young Adult Fiction (1995).

• Preface Colonial American Wars, 1565-1765 The American Revolution The War of 1812 Indian Wars East of the Mississippi, 1783-1845 The Texas Revolution and the War with Mexico, 1836-1848 The Civil War Indian Wars West of Mississippi, 1862-1890 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection World War I and the 1920s World War II The Korean War The War in Vietnam The United States Military since 1975 Index

M. PAUL HOLSINGER is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is also the founder of the World War II area of the Popular Culture Association and organizes annual sessions about that war and its cultural representations. He has authored and edited a number of works about America's wars and popular culture, including Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture (1992) and The Ways of War: The Era of World War II in Children's and Young Adult Fiction (1995).

• Preface Colonial American Wars, 1565-1765 The American Revolution The War of 1812 Indian Wars East of the Mississippi, 1783-1845 The Texas Revolution and the War with Mexico, 1836-1848 The Civil War Indian Wars West of Mississippi, 1862-1890 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection World War I and the 1920s World War II The Korean War The War in Vietnam The United States Military since 1975 Index