Post-Civil War American expansion at home and abroad -- Westward expansion and U.S. overseas empire 1865-1898 / Anne Paulet -- Buffalo soldiers on the western frontier: 1866-1890 / Brian G. Shellum -- U.S. overseas expansion in the post Civil War era / Stephen McCullough -- The Spanish-American war and U.S. overseas expansion -- The Spanish-American War and the development of U.S. imperialism: 1898-1933 / Thomas Schoonover -- The Philippine-American War and the birth of U.S. colonialism in Asia / Frank Schumacher -- The Platt Amendment and U.S. occupation policies in Latin America / Cyrus Veeser -- The first World War and its aftermath -- The United States in the First World War and the treaty of Versailles, 1914-1919 / Justus D. Doenecke -- Allied coalition warfare during the First World War / Brian Neumann -- Native American soldiers in World War I / Thomas Britten -- Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the league of nations / Ross A. Kennedy -- America between the world wars -- The United States during the interwar years: 1919-1941 / Kenneth Weisbrode -- The age of disengagement and disarmament / Benjamin D. Rhodes -- U.S. military planning during the interwar period / Lon Strauss -- America and the Second World War -- The United States in the Second World War: 1941-1945 / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and the second front / James D. Perry -- The atomic bombing of Japan: was it necessary? / Robert Buzzanco -- American women in World War II / Kara Dixon Vuic -- The housing of Axis prisoners of war in the U.S. during World War ii / Antonio S. Thompson -- The United States and the early Cold War -- The origins of the Cold War at home and abroad: 1945-1950 / Gunter Bischof -- The Soviet Union, the United States and eastern Europe, 1941-1953 / Laszlo Borhi -- U.S. occupation policy and nation building in Germany and Japan / James Dobbins -- The Cold War at home / K.A. Cuordileone -- The Korean War and its aftermath -- The Korean War, 1950-1953: a historiographical summary / James I. Matray -- UN coalition warfare during the Korean War / Jeffrey Grey -- Warfare and nation building in the Republic of Korea, 1953-1973 / Christos G. Frentzos -- The Vietnam War -- The Vietnam War, 1945-1975: a historiography / George C. Herring -- The myth of an American attrition strategy in the Vietnam war / Gregory A. Daddis -- "Shaky as all hell": the U.S. and nation building in southern Vietnam / James Carter -- The soldier' experience in Vietnam / Ron Milam -- U.S. clandestine operations and the Cold War on the periphery -- The cold War on the periphery, 1953-1989 / Michael J. Sullivan III -- Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the CIA: Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs / Joe Renouard -- U.S. clandestine operations in Chile: 1970-1973 / Lubna Qureshi -- U.S. troops as an instrument in foreign policy: the dominican republic in 1965 and grenada in 1983 / Kyle Longley -- America and post-Cold War interventions -- Post Cold War conflicts / Sean N. Kalic -- Operation Just Cause: the U.S. invasion of Panama / Barry Mowell -- The participation of American servicewomen in Operation Desert Storm / Emerald Archer -- U.S. troops in non-traditional roles: humanitarian and peacekeeping operations / Keith Pomakoy -- September 11, 2001 and its aftermath -- September 11, 2001 and the War on Terror / Martin Loicano -- Operation Enduring Freedom: the United States in Afghanistan / Kevin Farrell -- Operation Iraqi Freedom: 2003-2010 / Alexander Alderson -- Appendices -- List of maps -- U.S. expansion in the Pacific -- World War I Europe -- World War II Europe and North Africa -- World War II Pacific theater -- Cold War europe -- Korean War -- Vietnam War -- Iraq and Afghanistan.