About
AT A GLANCE:
Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
RESEARCH AREAS:
鈥� Irregular warfare
鈥� Colonial and postcolonial conflict
鈥� U.S. defense policy
鈥� Civil-military relations
BIOGRAPHY:
John W. Hall is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also co-founder and co-chair of the War in Society
and Culture Program. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black
Hawk War (Harvard, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare. He is a past
president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel,
with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S.
European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a graduate
of the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and
holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
PUBLICATIONS:
Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Harvard University Press, 2009.
鈥淭o Starve an Army: How Great Power Armies Respond to Austerity.鈥� In Sustainable Security:
Rethinking American National Security Strategy, edited by Jeremi Suri and Benjamin
A. Valentino, 166-195. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
鈥淎n Irregular Reconsideration of George Washington and the American Military Tradition,鈥�
Journal of Military History 78, no. 3 (July 2014): 961-993.
鈥溾�楳y Favorite Officer鈥�: George Washington鈥檚 Apprentice, Nathanael Greene,鈥� in Sons
of the Father: George Washington and His Prot茅g茅s, ed. Robert McDonald, 149-168 (Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2013).
鈥楢 Reckless Waste of Blood and Treasure鈥�: The Last Campaign of the Second Seminole
War,鈥� in Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars, ed. Matthew Moten (New
York: Free Press, 2011).
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