Brian McAllister Linn is an American military historian, who specializes in the 20th century. He serves on the faculty at
Texas A&M University
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. He was born in the territory of Hawaii and graduated from
Ohio State University
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.
Education
*Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1985
*M.A., The Ohio State University, 1981
*B.A. with High Honors, University of Hawai’i, 1978
Career
Linn has been the recipient of a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and an Olin Fellowship. He taught as a visiting professor at the Army War College and a Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore and the University of Birmingham. He is a past president of the
Society for Military History
The Society for Military History is a United States–based international organization of scholars who research, write, and teach military history of all time periods and places. It includes naval history, air power history, and studies of technol ...
.
[https://www.k-state.edu/history/eisenlecture/Eisenhower_lecture_10.pdf ]
Works
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The United States: Anticipating and Conducting War, 1939-1942''. Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 2006.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Impact of the Imperial Wars (1899-1907) on the U.S. Army''. Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, 2005.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Eisenhower, the Army, and the American Way of War''. Manhattan, Kansas: Dept. of History, Kansas State University, 2003.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The Philippine War, 1899-1902''. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific; 1902-1940''. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1998.
*Linn, Brian McAllister. ''The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American military historians
Texas A&M University faculty
Ohio State University alumni
University of Hawaiʻi alumni
Historians from Texas
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