- Ph.D. Purdue University
- M.A. Purdue
- B.A. State University of New York at Binghamton
- University Department History
- Location 129 David Hayworth Hall
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Dr. Schneid teaches European history, 1600-1945, and specializes in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era as well as general military history. He has published numerous books, chapters and articles on European military history including, European Armies of the French Revolution, The Second War of Italian Unification, 1859-1861, and Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition. He is currently completing a book on the Wars of Italian Unification, 1848-1870.
Dr. Schneid served as the Charles Boal Ewing Chair in Military History at West Point for the 2023-2024 academic year. During that time, he taught a general course in military History, directed an award winning two-semester senior seminar in History and offered a course on Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars. Dr. Schneid appears on the Napoleonic Quarterly, a History podcast. He is featured in five episodes this year that cover 1796-1797. The podcast follows the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era in three-month increments. The Napoleonic Quarterly can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
He also appears in two episodes of a Youtube series on the War of Italian Unification in 1859, “The Solferino Project,” which can be viewed below.
2017 to Present: Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History
2023 to 2024: Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History, United States Military Academy West Point
2016 to Present: Director of Individualized Majors
2010 to 2023: Chair of the Department of History
2016 to 2020: Chief Faculty Marshal
2011 to 2016: Deputy Faculty Marshal
2003-2017: Professor of History
2000-2010: Director, University Honors Program
1998-2003: Associate Professor of History
1994-1998: Assistant Professor of History, High Point University
1993-1994: Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University
The Wars of Italian Unification, 1848-1870, Modern Wars Series, Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming 2025).
The French-Piedmontese Campaign of 1859, (Rome: Ufficio Storico Stato Maggiore Esercito, 2014).
The Second War of Italian Unification (London: Osprey, 2012).
The Napoleonic Wars – Essential Bibliography Series (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2012).
Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: The War of the Third Coalition 1805 (Westport: Praeger, 2005).
Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns, 1805-1815 (Westport: Praeger, 2002).
Soldiers of Napoleon’s Kingdom of Italy: Army State and Society, 1800-1815 (Boulder: Westview/Harper Collins, 1995).
ed., European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2015).
ed., The Projection and Limitations of Imperial Powers: 1660-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
ed., European Politics 1815-1848 (Ashgate: Harlow, 2011).
edited with Donald Stoker and Harold Blanton, Conscription in Napoleonic Europe, 1799-1815: A Revolution in Military Affairs? (London: Routledge, 2009).
ed., European Warfare, 1792-1815, (Ashgate: Harlow, 2007).
“Campaigns in Italy, 1796-1797 and 1800,” in The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, eds. Bruno Colson and Alexander Mikaberidze, (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
“Campaigns in Prussia and Poland, 1806-1807,” The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, eds. Bruno Colson and Alexander Mikaberidze, (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Co-author, “Logistics in the Napoleonic Wars,” in The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, eds. Bruno Colson and Alexander Mikaberidze, (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
“The French Cavalry at Austerlitz: Data and Narrative,” in The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare, ed. Alex Burns, (Helion & Co: Warwick, 2022).
“The French Army at Rossbach,” in Alexander Querengässer ed., The Battle of Rossbach: New Perspectives on the Battle and the Campaign, (Helion & Co: Warwick, 2022).
“Introduction” in Napoleon: The Art of War and Power, (Arcturus: London, 2018).
“Die französische Armee bei Roßbach,” in Alexander Querengässer (ed.): Die Schlacht bei Roßbach. Akteure – Verlauf – Nachwirkung (=Beiträge zur Geschichte des Militärs in Sachsen 2), (Zeughaus Verlag: Berlin, 2017).
“Victory,” in Charles Esdaile ed., 30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute, (Ivy Press: Brighton, 2017).
“The Campaign against Piedmont-Sardinia, 1796” in Michael Leggiere ed., Napoleon and the Operational Art, (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
“The French Army,” in ed., Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2015).
“The Rise of Napoleon,” in The West Point History of Warfare (New York: 2014).
“War and Revolution in the Age of the Risorgimento, 1820-1849,” in Frederick C. Schneid ed., The Projection and Limitations of Imperial Powers: 1660-1850 (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
“Napoleon’s Imperial Guard,” in Jeremy Black ed., Elite Fighting Forces (London: Thames and Hudson, 2011).
“The Army of the Kingdom of Italy,” in Gregory Fremont-Barnes ed., Armies of the Napoleonic Era, (Pen & Sword: Barnsely, 2011).
“Command and Control,” in Fighting Techniques of Colonial Empires (New York: St. Martins, USA: 2009).
“Napoleonic Conscription and the Militarization of Europe?” in Donald Stoker, Frederick C. Schneid, Harold Blanton, eds., Conscription in Napoleonic Europe, 1799-1815: A Revolution in Military Affairs, (London: Routledge, 2008).
“Napoleon” in Jeremy Black ed., Great Military Leaders (London: Thames and Hudson, 2008).
“Command and Control,” in Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age (New York: St. Martins, USA: 2008).
“Command and Control,” in Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World (New York: St. Martins, USA: 2006).
“La primera campaña de Bonaparte, La Conquista de Piemonte,” Desperta Ferro: Historia Militar a del Mundo Moderna, 64 (June 2023): 20-27.
“Rívoli, 1797 La batalla decisiva de la campaña de Italia,”Desperta Ferro: Historia Militar a del Mundo Moderna, 64 (June 2023):50-57.
“Master Narratives in Military History: Europe 1789 to 1900,” in special 40th Anniversary issue of War & Society 42, 1(January 2023): 44-51.
“Jena-Auerstadt,” in Sun Tzu: The Art of War Illustrated, (Amber Books: London, 2018).
“Francia desgarrada: Consecuencias tras la batalla de Sedán,” Desperta Ferro: Historia Militar a del Mundo Moderna, Siglos XVI-XIX, 28(junio-julio 2017): 6-12.
“Le condizioni e le operazioni della Marina Sarda durante la Seconda Guerra d’Indipendenza, 1859,” Bolletino d’Archivio della Ufficio Storico della Marina Militare (March 2013): 23-47.
“Mid-Nineteenth Century European Wars.” in: Oxford Bibliographies in Military History Online, November 26, 2013. URL: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0043.xml
“A Well Coordinated Affair: Franco-Piedmontese War Planning in 1859” Journal of Military History, 76, 2(April 2012): 523-556.
“The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,” in: European History Online (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz Jan 27, 2011. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/schneidf-2011-en URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-20101025334
“Un affare ben coordinato: la pianificazione bellica franco-piemontese nel 1859” in Studi Storico Militari 2009 (2011): 395-421.
“Kings, Clients and Satellites in the Napoleonic Imperium,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 31, 4 (August 2008): 571-604.
“The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Monarchy during the War of the Third Coalition,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Selected Papers, 2007 (2008): 313-321.
“The Prussian Variable of 1805: Perceptions and Realities,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers 2002. (2004): 270-279.
“The Dynamics of Defeat: French Army Leadership, December 1812 – March 1813.” Journal of Military History, 63, 1 (January 1999): 7-28.
“Eugene and the Defense of Italy in 1813.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Proceedings 1991. (1992): 171-181.
“The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1813-1814.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 18(1991): 252-260.
“The Napoleon Club at West Point,” Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony Lecture, United States Military Academy at West Point, February 15, 2024.
“European Military Developments: 1848-1914,” The Charles Boal Ewing Chair Lecture, United States Military Academy at West Point, January 9, 2024.
“ ‘But we should need to know everything…’ The Place of the Risorgimento in Military History,” Institute for Historical Research: War, Culture and Society Seminar at University of London, January 18, 2023.
“19th Century War and Warfare” and “Pedagogy for 19th Century Wars,” Summer Seminar in Military History, sponsored by the Society for Military History and the Institute for War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, June 18, 2022.
“Civil-Military Relations in Germany, 1918-1938,” presented at panel, “Constitutional Crisis: The (retired) Generals & the President,” hosted by University of New Mexico School of Law, June 23, 2020.
“’They have seen nothing yet….’ Napoleon’s Conquest of Italy, 1796-7,” presented at Catawba College and Salisbury Historical Society, Salisbury, NC, 10 September 2019.
“War and Memory in France from Napoleon to World War I,” presented at Texas Christian University, 15 November 2017.
“Franco-American Relations from the American Revolution to the War on Terror,” presented at the Military History Center, Executive Council Discussion Series, University of North Texas, 14 November 2017.
“Imperial Identities at War: The Battle of Solferino,” presented at the History of War Seminar, All Souls College, University of Oxford, 10 February 2016.
“The European Battlefield in the 19th Century: Napoleon III and Military Leadership During the Second French Empire,” presented at the 49th Annual Perspectives in Military History Lecture Series, United States Army Heritage and Education Center, United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 21 October 2015.
“The Ghost of Napoleon and the Haunting of the 1859 Campaign in Italy,” presented at the Fondation Napoléon, Paris, France, 22 May 2014.
“The French-Piedmontese Campaign of 1859,” Roundtable discussion at the International Book Fair in Turin, Italy, 10 May 2014.
“Historical Problems and National Myths: The Second War of Italian Unification,” presented at Ruth E. Ridenhour Lecture, High Point University, 22 January 2010.
“Warfare and Strategy in the Age of Napoleon,” presented at West Point Summer Seminar in Military History, 5 June 2007.
“The Grand Strategy of France, 1792-1815,” Grand Strategy: A Historical Perspective, Roundtable discussion at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington, D.C., June 2001.
“Peoples, Politics and Supply Networks during Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807,” The Society for Military History Annual Conference, Arlington, VA., April 19, 2024.
“Manpower, Logistics and Feeding Napoleon’s Machine, 1806-7,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Annual Conference, Tallahassee, FL, February 29, 2020.
“Attrition and Feeding Napoleon’s Machine: Prussia and Poland, 1806-7,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 1, 2019.
“Blundering to Glory Reconsidered: Lonato and Castiglione as Viewed from the Archives” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Annual Conference, Charleston, SC, 25 February 2017.
“Diplomacy, Expectations and Operations in Italy, 1796,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Annual Conference, Oxford, MS., 21 February 2014.
“’Sicily is everything, Gaeta is nothing,’ The Impact of British Naval Supremacy in the Mediterranean upon the Italian Satellites: 1806-1814,” 5th Wellington Congress, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 7 April 2013.
“The Piedmontese Campaign in Lombardy-Venetia in 1848: A Reassessment,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, LA., 23 February 2012.
“A Well-Coordinated Affair: Franco-Piedmontese War Planning in 1859,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Lexington, VA., May 2010.
“The Army of the Kingdom of Italy Revisited,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April 2009
“The Impact of Napoleon’s Empire on Habsburg Grand Strategy in 1809,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Annual Conference, Huntsville, AL., 29 February-3 March 2008
“Freiheitkrieg and Freiwillige: Volunteer Battalions in the German Armies, 1813-1815” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Frederick, MD., 19-22 April 2007
“The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Monarchy during the War of the Third Coalition,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Annual Conference, Arlington, VA., 1-4 March 2007
“Financing Napoleon’s Wars,” Economic and Business History Society, Annual Conference, High Point, North Carolina, April 2005.
“Feeding the Grande Armée: Logistics in Germany in 1805,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe,
Annual Conference, Lakeland, Florida, February 2005.
“Bernadotte’s March and North German Politics in 1805,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2004.
“Force Allocation and Imperial Defense in 1805,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2002.
“The Prussian Variable of 1805: Perceptions and Realities,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 2002.
“The Road to Vienna: Napoleon and the German Princes in 1805.” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Quantico, Virginia, April 2000.
“Italy within Napoleon’s Grand Strategy in 1813.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Annual Conference, Huntsville Alabama, March 2000.
“The Anatomy of Napoleon’s Armée d’Italie in 1796,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Montgomery, Alabama, April 1997.
“Securing the Napoleonic Empire in Southern Europe, 1805-1807,” Society for Military History, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 1996.
“The Forging of a Nation: The Unification of Italy under Napoleon, 1805-1814,” American Historical
Association, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1992.
“Eugene and the Defense of Italy in 1813.” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 1991.
“The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1813-1814.” Western Society for French History, Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, California, November 1990.
François Houdecek, Vivre la Grande Armée: être soldat au temps de Napoléon, CNRS Editions, Paris, 2023, and François Houdecek ed., Maréchaux d’Empire: La gloire pour destin, Ministère des Armées, Paris, 2023, p. 496., Napoleonica The Journal, 5, 1, (April 2024): 193-196.
Mitchell, A. Wess, The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire, Princeton University Press, 2018, in Napoleonica The Journal, 1, 1(September 2022), 167-170.
Murray, Nicholas and Christopher Pringle eds. and trans., Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, volume 1; and The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, volume 2, University of Kansas Press, 2021, in Journal of Military History, 86, 3(July 2022): 702-703. Colson, Bruno ed., Napoleon: On War, Oxford University Press, 2017, in European History Quarterly, 50, 2(2020): 356-357.
Murray, Nicholas and Christopher Pringle eds. and trans., Carl von Clausewitz, Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign, University of Kansas Press, 2018, in Journal of Military History, 84, 2(April 2020): 585-586.
Cornwall, Mark and John Paul Newman, eds. Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War, Berghahn Books, 2016 in Austrian History Yearbook 49(April 2018): 320-321.
Bassett, Richard, For God and Kaiser: A History of the Imperial Austrian Army, Yale University Press, 2015, in English Historical Review 132, 557(September 2017).
Roberts, Andrew, Napoleon: A Life, Viking Press, 2014 in Journal of Military History, 81, 3(July 2017): 868-869.
Price, Munro, Napoleon: The End of Glory, Oxford University Press: 2015 in European History Quarterly 46(October 2016): 772-774.
House, Jonathan M., Controlling Paris: Armed Forces and Counter-Revolution, 1789–1848, NYU Press: New York, 2014 in European History Quarterly 46(January 2016): 141-142.
Zarzeczny, Matthew, Meteors that Enlighten the Earth: Napoleon and the Cult of Great Men, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013, in H-France Review, 15(January 2015): No. 14.
Cuccia, Philip, Napoleon in Italy: The Sieges of Mantua, 1796-1799, Oklahoma University Press, Norman, OK., 2014, in Journal of Military History, 79, 1(January 2015): 201-202.
Mikaberidze, Alexander ed. and trans., Diaries of the 1812-1814 Campaigns, by Pavel Pushin. “Russian Voices of the Napoleonic Wars,” vol. I; Campaign Memoirs of the Artilleryman. Part I: 1812, by Ilya Radozhitskii. “Russian Voices of the Napoleonic Wars,” vol. II; and Russian Prisoner of War among the French, by Moritz von Kotzebue; “Russian Voices of the Napoleonic Wars,” vol. IV, Tblisi, Napoleonic Society of Georgia, 2011; in Journal of Military History, 78, 2(April 2014): 778-79.
Faverzani, Luciano, Il Primo Esercito Italiano nella corrispondenza del Generale Giuseppe Lechi 1799-1804, Rome, USSME, 2010, in International Bibliography of Military History, 32 (2012): 94-95.
Cipolla, Constantino ed., Il crinale dei crinale: La battaglia di Solferino e San Martino, 4 vols., Milan: Franco Angeli, 2009, in International Bibliography of Military History, 31, 2(2011): 135-136.
Di Lauro, Ferdinando, 1859: L’Armata Sarda a San Martino, Rome: Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito – Ufficio Storico, 2010 in International Bibliography of Military History, 31, 2(2011): 140.
Paoletti, Ciro, Dal ducato all’Unità: tre secoli e mezzo di storia militare piemontese, Rome, Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito – Ufficio Storico, 2011 in International Bibliography of Military History, 31, 2(2011): 174-175.
Jonathan Marwil, Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010, Journal of Military History 75, 4(October 2011): 1300-1301
Michael Broers, Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolution. Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd., 2010. H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 130
Jeremy Black, The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon. Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2009. American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 40, 4(2010), 562-564.
Guy Dempsey, Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War, Frontline Books: London, 2008; Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge, The Battle of Albuera 1811: “Glorious Field of Grief’, Pen & Sword: Barnsley, 2007. H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009).
Paolo Giacome Piana and Riccardo Dellepiane, Militarium: Fonti archivisti e bibliografia per la storia militare della Repubblica di Genova (1528-1797), della Repubblica Ligure (1797-1805) e della Liguria napoleonica (1805-1814), Journal of Military History, 72, 1(January 2008): 236-237.
Robert Goetz, 1805: Austerlitz, Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition. (Greenhill: London, 2005). H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007).
Pierre Charrier, Le Maréchal Davout, (Foundation Napoléon, Millau: 2005) H-France Review, Vol. 6 (September 2006).
Virgilio Ilari, Piero Crociani and Ciro Paoletti, Bella Italia Militar: Escerciti e Marine nell’Italia pre-napoleonica (1748-1792), (Stato Maggiore Escerito, Roma, 2000); Storia Militare dell’Italia Giacobina (1796-1802), 2 volumes, (Stato Maggiore Escerito, Roma, 2001), for the Journal of Military History, 68, 2(April 2004): 595-598.
Virgilio Ilari, Piero Crociani and Ciro Paoletti, La Guerra della Alpi, 1792-1796, (Stato Maggiore Escerito, Roma, 2000), for the Journal of Military History, 66, 2(April 2002): 553-554.
Joseph Moiret, Memoirs of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition, 1798-1801, translated by Rosemarie Brindle, (Stackpole, Mechanicsburg, 2001), for the Journal of Military History, 65, 4(October 2001): 1090-1091.
John Lynn, Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army 1610-1715, (Cambridge, Cambridge: 1998), for the American Historical Review, 105, 2(April 2000): 620-621.
Rory Muir, Tactics and the Battle Experience in the Age of Napoleon, (Yale, New Haven: 1998), for the American Historical Review, 104, 4(October 1999): 1368-1369.
Encyclopedia of Warfare, Dennis Showalter ed., (Amber Books: London, 2013)
“1st Custoza 19-22 July 1848”
“Milan 18-22 March 1848”
“Pastrengo 30 April 1848”
“Goito 30 May 1848”
“Santa Lucia 6 May 1848”
“Rome 8 February – 3 July 1849”
“Venice May 1848- August 1849”
“Novara 22-23 March 1849”
“Brescia 26-31 March 1849”
“Magenta 4 June 1859”
“Solferino 24 June 1859”
“Montebello 1859”
“Varese 26 May 1859”
“Palestro 30-31 May 1859”
“Calatafimi 15 May 1860”
“Milazzo 17-24 July 1860”
“Castelfidardo 18 September 1860”
“Ancona September 1860”
“Volturno 30 September 1860”
“Gaeta 9 November 1860- 13 February 1861”
“Aspromonte 29 August 1862”
“Lissa 20 July 1866”
“Bezzecca 21 July 1866”
“2nd Custoza 24 June 1866”
“Mentana 3 November 1867”
“Rome 20 September 1870”
Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914, John Merriman ed., (Scribners: New York, 2006)
“Sièyes, Abbé Emmanuel”
“Troppau, Congress of”
“Vienna, Congress of”
“French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”
May 2025: Visiting Professor, Académie militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan
March 2024: Visiting Professor, Académie militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan
2023-Present: Book Review Editor, War Studies Journal
2022-Present: Editorial Board, Napoleonica: The Journal (France)
2019-Present: Editorial Advisory Board, War & Society (Australia)
2017-Present: -Editorial Advisory Board, Campaigns and Commanders Series, Oklahoma University Press
2009-Present: Series Editor, Brill, History of Warfare Series
2000-Present: Board of Directors, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850.
2016-2018: International Advisory Board, British Journal for Military History (UK)
March 2023: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
March 2021: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
March 2019: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
March 2018: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
2013-2017: Editorial Board, Journal of Military History
March 2017: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
Spring 2016: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
January 2016: Guest Editor, Special Issue: End of Napoleonic Wars, Journal of Military History
March 2015: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
May 2014: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris (XII) Est-Créteil
2014-2015: Chair of the Board of Directors, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
2010-2013: Bibliography Committee, Italian Commission on Military History.
2009-2011: Founding Editorial Board, Oxford Military History Bibliographies Online.
2005-2009: General Editor, Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Era.
2004-2005: Chair of the Board of Directors, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era
1998-2016: Southern Regional Director, Society for Military History.
2024: United States Army Public Service Commendation Medal
2022: Excellence in Teaching Award, Douglas Witcher School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences
2009: The Ruth Ridenhour Scholarly and Professional Achievement Award
2005: Exemplary Teaching at a United Methodist-related institution of higher education. Awarded by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church
2004: Alpha Chi Award for promoting excellence and scholarship in the classroom
2002: Outstanding Faculty Member, Evening Degree Program, High Point University
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DIS 1000: Military History of Middle Earth
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HST 2103: The Second World War: A Global History
HST 2104: History of the Holocaust
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HST 3105: Soldier Kings and Philosophers: Europe 1603-1789
HST 3106: The French Revolution and Napoleon
HST 3107: The Age of Revolutions and the Birth of Modern Europe, 1815-1914
HST 3108: Europe in Crisis: 1914-1945
HST 3901: History Detectives
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HI 338: War in the Age of Revolutions (USMA)
HI 498: Historiography (USMA)
HI 499: Senior Seminar (USMA)
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