Robert B. Bruce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX  77341-2239
Phone: (936) 294 - 1478
E-mail: rbruce@shsu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Kansas State University, 1999

M.A., History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1994

B.G.S., History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1992

ACADEMIC POSITIONS & TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006 – Present: Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

2000 – 2006: Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Sam Houston State University

Graduate Courses Taught at Sam Houston State University

Seminar in Military History: The History of Strategy
Seminar in Military History: The Napoleonic Wars
Seminar in Military History: World War I
Seminar in Military History: World War II
Studies in Recent America: The Rise of America to World Power, 1898 – 1919
Studies in Contemporary America: The Korean War

Undergraduate Courses Taught at Sam Houston State University

The French Revolution & Napoleonic Era, 1789 – 1815
Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present
Europe in the Age of Absolutism & Revolution, 1648 – 1815
European History, 1815 - 1914
World War II
The Military and War in America
The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1945
The World in the 20^th Century
World History from the Dawn of Civilization through the Middle Ages
World History from the Renaissance to the Age of Imperialism
United States History since 1876
United States History to 1876

1995 – 2000: Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, Kansas State University 

Courses Taught at Kansas State University

The Korean War
Modern China
The Napoleonic Wars
World War I
Warfare in the Nineteenth Century
United States History to 1877
United States History since 1877
Western Civilization: The Modern Era, 1715 – Present

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Pétain: Verdun to Vichy (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008).

(co-author) Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age, 1792 - 1815 (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008).  History Book Club, Alternate Selection; Military Book Club, Editor’s Choice.

A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).  Winner of the 2004
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize from the Western Front Association for the best book on World War I.

(editor) Abraham Lincoln's Changing Views on Slavery.  (St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, 2001).

Forthcoming Books

A Military History of France (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2009).

Death Ride: The German Army in the Battle of the Bulge (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2009).

Book Manuscripts in Progress

Verdun: The Battle for France, 1916, under contract for publication with Harvard University Press. 

A Navy for Empire: The United States Navy and the Rise of America to World Power, 1890 – 1898, in progress.

 Articles

“The Victor of Verdun,” Military History 25 (July-August 2008): 52 - 61.

“America Embraces France: Marshal Joseph Joffre and the French Mission to the United States, April - May 1917,” The Journal of Military History 66 (April 2002): 407 – 441. 

“To the Last Limits of Their Strength: The French Army and the Logistics of Attrition at the Battle of Verdun, 21 February - 18 December 1916,”
Army History 45 (Summer 1998): 9-21.

Articles Under Review for Publication and in Preparation

“Death in Springtime: General James Van Fleet and the Defeat of the Chinese Spring Offensives in the Korean War, April – June 1951.”  Currently under review
for publication with Military Heritage. 

“Dawn of the New Empire: The U.S. Navy’s Victory at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898,” In preparation.

Book Chapters, Essays & Encyclopedia Entries

“Foreign Legion;” “Babi Yar;” “Bessarabia;” “Oskar Schindler;” “Simon Wiesenthal;” in The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Inc., 2006).

“Battles of Ligny & Quatre Bras,” in James C. Bradford (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Military History (New York: Routledge, 2006).

“The French,” in Paul Finkelman, et al (eds.) Encyclopedia of the New American Nation, 1754 – 1829  (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006).

“World War I,” in Bill Marshall (ed.), France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History (Santa-Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005).

“To the Last Limits of Their Strength: The French Army and the Logistics of Attrition at the Battle of Verdun, 21 February - 18 December 1916,” in Michael Neiberg (ed.) World War I (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), Ch. 13, pp. 287 – 300.

“Saratoga,” in Keith Krawczynski (ed.) History in Dispute: The American Revolution (Detroit: St James Press, 2003).

“Vivandières,” in Reina Pennington (ed.) Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003).

“Plan XVII,” “French African Troops,” “Marshal Foch,” in Dennis Showalter (ed.) History in Dispute: World War I, 2 vols. (Detroit: St. James Press, 2002).

Peer Review

Read and critique manuscripts for university presses and refereed journals: 

Texas A&M University Press
University of Oklahoma Press
European History Quarterly
Journal of Military History
Journal of the Early Republic

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Named Outstanding Educator for 2007-2008 by Sam Houston State University, Future Farmers of America.

Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize of 2004 from the Western Front Association awarded to my book A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War for the best work of history on the World War I era.

C. Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowship, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY, 2003.

Sageser Memorial Award for excellence in teaching performance, Department of History, Kansas State University, 11 May 1998.

Higham Award for best graduate student in Military History, Department of History, Kansas State University, 1998.

Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Office of the President, Kansas State University, 1997.

Rhoden Graduate Thesis Scholarship, University of Nebraska at Omaha in recognition of superior academic achievements and outstanding scholarly research,
1993.

 ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

Society for Military History
United States Naval Institute
Western Front Association
The Great War Society
Crimean War Research Society

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Society for Military History George C. Marshall Lectureship Committee
Department of History Course Development Committee (Chair)
Department of History Graduate Studies Committee
Department of History Library Liaison

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Last Update September 2008