MTM Publishing is currently coordinating a project entitled
Encyclopedia of Encyclopedia of War and American Society, which is to be
published by Sage Publications. Peter Karsten, Professor of History
at the University of Pittsburgh, will be serving as the
Editor-in-Chief. The Associate Editors for the project are
Professors Mark Grimsley of Ohio State University, Jennifer D. Keene
of the University of Redlands, Wayne Lee of the University of
Louisville, and Mark P. Parillo of Kansas State University.
The Encyclopedia of Encyclopedia of War and American Society
will be a three-volume reference book serving the high school,
college, and public library markets. With entries addressing a range
of issues from America’s colonial wars to the recent war in Iraq,
the encyclopedia will investigate how war-and the military as an
institution-has interacted with or affected various facets of
American society.
The first two volumes, organized in an A-to-Z
format, will include approximately 320-350 articles of varying
length and cover a number of thematic categories, such as Arts and
Culture; Civil-Military Relations; Economics and Labor; Education;
Environment and Health; Gender; Journalism and Media; Law and
Justice; Planning/Command and Control; Race and Ethnicity; Religion;
Science and Technology; the Veteran Experience; and the wars
themselves. The third volume will consist of approximately 200-300
primary documents, including letters, journal entries, speeches,
political cartoons, literary excerpts, and posters, as well as a
substantive chronology and comprehensive bibliography.