John Shy
John Willard Shy is a military historian and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.[1][2] Shy is part of a group of military historians who examined the interplay of the military, politics, and society in the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history.[3]
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | historian |
Known for | military history |
Notable work | Toward Lexington (1965) |
Education
Shy attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in the class of 1952.[1] He received his master's degree from University of Vermont in 1957.[1] Shy graduated with his PhD from Princeton in 1961.[1]
Career
Shy specializes in the American Colonial and Revolutionary periods.[1]
The University of Michigan presented him with the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1994.[4]
Shy received the Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2002.[5]
Shy gave the 2008 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History.[6]
Selected Works
- Paret, Peter, and John W. Shy. Guerrillas in the 1960s. New York: Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, by Praeger, 1962. OCLC 275746
- Shy, John W. Toward Lexington; The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
- Shy, John W. A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0195020138
- Gilbert, Benjamin, and John W. Shy. Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783 : from His Original Manuscript Letterbook in the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press, 1989. ISBN 0472101129
References
- "Memoir - Faculty History Project". www.lib.umich.edu.
- http://www.miwsr.com/2008/downloads/20081202.pdf
- Spector, Robert (1991). "Military History and the Academic World". Army History. 19 (19): 7. JSTOR 26302864.
- "FACULTY AWARDS John Shy, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award". ur.umich.edu.
- "Morison Prize". The Society for Military History.
- "Vol. 72 No. 4". The Society for Military History.