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词条 Edward M. Coffman
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Military career

  3. Academic career

  4. Legacy

  5. Bibliography

  6. References

  7. External links

Edward M. Coffman (born January 27, 1929), is a military historian and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus.

Early life

He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and earned his BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Kentucky. While an undergraduate member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), he was a member of the National Society of Pershing Rifles as well as Scabbard and Blade.[1]

Military career

He served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953, serving in Japan and Korea.

Academic career

He taught at Memphis State University for two years and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1961–92). He was Forrest Pogue's research assistant on the first volume of his biography of George C. Marshall. Coffman spent a year each as a visiting professor at Kansas State University, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, Army War College, and the Army Command and General Staff College.

Coffman has served on the History Book Club advisory committee since 1987. A member of the Society for Military History since 1956, he has held several offices including president. He served on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (1972–76) and the Department of the Army History Committee for six years and as chair for an additional four years.

Coffman has received a Southern Faculty Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the UK Phi Beta Kappa chapter and is an Honorary Graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College. Over the years the Army awarded him the Commander's Award for Public Service, Outstanding Civilian Service Award, and Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He was named a University of Kentucky Distinguished Graduate and the Wisconsin State Assembly gave him a citation for his contributions as a teacher and historian. In 1991, the Society for Military History gave him the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for his contribution to military history,[2] and its Distinguished Book Award for The Regulars.[3] ABC-CLIO gave him the Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History.[4]

Coffman's research interests are the American participation in World War I and the social history of the U. S. Regular Army, including not only officers and soldiers but the wives and children who lived on the posts. He has published numerous articles since 1956. In addition to research in secondary scholarly works, he depended on unpublished and published memoirs and records as well as oral history and correspondence, particularly in his books on World War I and his most recent book about the Regular Army.

Legacy

His research files have been donated to the George C. Marshall Foundation.[5]

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|author=Edward M. Coffman|title=The Hilt of the Sword: the Career of Peyton C. March|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison|year=1966|isbn=0-299-03910-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSAgAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{cite book|author=Edward M. Coffman|title=The War To End All Wars: the American military experience in World War I|publisher=Oxford University Press, NY (re-printed by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1986, and the University Press of Kentucky in 1998)|isbn=978-0-8131-0955-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=px_1JGtbeIAC}} (see Army Quarterly, October 1969, p. 126-7 for review)
  • {{cite book|author=Edward M. Coffman|title=The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1986|isbn=0-19-503750-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uXGuamukc0C}}
  • {{cite book|author=Edward M. Coffman|title=The Regulars: the American Army, 1898-1941|location=Cambridge, MA|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-674-01299-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3rrIBKJnlcC}}
  • {{cite book|author=Edward M. Coffman|title=The Embattled Past: Reflections on Military History|location=Lexington, KY|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=2014|isbn=978-0813142661

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQI-AAAAQBAJ}}

References

1. ^The Kentuckian 1951, the University of Kentucky Yearbook, pg. 312
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/morison.html |title=Samuel Eliot Morison Prize previous winners |publisher=Society for Military History |accessdate=December 25, 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/books.html|title=Distinguished Book Awards previous winners |publisher=Society for Military History|access-date=December 26, 2017}}
4. ^ABC-CLIO press release http://www.abc-clio.com/PressView.aspx?id=70393 May 26, 2010.
5. ^http://marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/06/Coffman_Edward_M.pdf

External links

  • Coffman discusses The Regulars: The American Army, 1898 - 1941 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
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