Frank Vandiver
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- PhD History Rice University
- Masters History Rice University
- Bachelors History Rice University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frank Everson Vandiver was an American Civil War historian, the 19th president of Texas A&M University and the former president of the University of North Texas, as well as acting president of Rice University. Vandiver wrote, co-wrote, or edited 24 books, and published an additional 100 scholarly articles or reviews. One of his books was a runner-up for a National Book Award.
Frank Vandiver's Published Works
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- Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. (1995) (37)
- Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War (review) (2012) (26)
- Grant Moves South (1960) (23)
- “A People's Contest”: The Union and Civil War, 1861–1865. By Phillip Shaw Paludan. New York: Harper & Row and The Private Civil War: Popular Thought during the Sectional Conflict. By Randall C. Jimerson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1990) (21)
- Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance (1977) (21)
- The Civil War diary of General Josiah Gorgas (1947) (14)
- Rebel Brass: The Confederate Command System (1956) (13)
- Harper's Interprets "The South Today" (1965) (12)
- Federalism in the Southern Confederacy (1966) (11)
- Patton: The Man behind the Legend, 1885-1945@@@Pershing: General of the Armies (1988) (11)
- The Confederate Navy: A study in organization (1971) (10)
- The Idea of the South : pursuit of a central theme (1964) (10)
- Their Tattered Flags: The Epic of the Confederacy. (1970) (9)
- War Memoirs: Autobiographical Sketch And Narrative Of The War Between The States (2012) (7)
- Allen: The Biography of an Army Officer, 1859 - 1930 (1974) (7)
- The Emergence of Military Managers: Pershing and Marshall@@@Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918.@@@Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing. (1978) (6)
- Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars (1997) (6)
- Jefferson Davis--Leader Without Legend (1977) (4)
- How America goes to war (2005) (4)
- Their tattered flags (1970) (3)
- Makeshifts of Confederate Ordnance (1951) (3)
- Confederate Blockade Running through Bermuda, 1861-1865: Letters and Cargo Manifest. (1948) (3)
- On Understanding the South: A Review Article (1964) (3)
- The Mexican War Experience of Josiah Gorgas (1947) (2)
- A Note on Josiah Gorgas in the Mexican War (1945) (2)
- The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures: Essays on Walter Prescott Webb@@@Walter Prescott Webb: His Life and Impact (1977) (2)
- Prince John Magruder: His Life and Campaigns (1996) (2)
- Headquarters in the Brush: Blazer's Independent Union Scouts (2001) (2)
- Some Problems Involved in Writing Confederate History (1970) (2)
- General Hood as Logistician (1952) (2)
- The Confederacy and the American Tradition (1962) (1)
- Proceedings of the Second Confederate Congress, Second Session in Part, December 15, 1864-March 18, 1865. (1960) (1)
- Commander-In-Chief - Commander Relationships: Wilson and Pershing (1971) (1)
- The first public war: 1861–1865 (1978) (1)
- Storming of the Gateway: Chattanooga, 1863 (2011) (1)
- Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War. (1993) (1)
- Haskell of Gettysburg: His Life and Civil War Papers (1989) (1)
- Three Centennial Projects (2013) (1)
- Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting (review) (2013) (0)
- Celts, Catholics & Copperheads: Ireland Views the American Civil War. (1969) (0)
- Dr. Frank Vandiver interview regarding Jefferson Davis (2008) (0)
- War and the Changing Nature of the Union 1861-1972 (1972) (0)
- $ 1 million is goal in new fund drive (0)
- The Coming of the Glory. By John Shipley Tilley. (New York: Stratford House, 1949. x + 290 pp. Foreword, acknowledgments, bibliographical reference notes, and index. $3.00.) (1949) (0)
- Essays on the American Civil War (1968) (0)
- Universities: the next iteration? (1984) (0)
- A Study in Rebel Nostalgia (1971) (0)
- Essays in the humanities (1971) (0)
- Proceedings of the First Confederate Congress, Fourth Session: 7 December 1863-18 December 1864. (1954) (0)
- Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War. Texas A&M University Military History Series. (1994) (0)
- In Quest of General Pershing (1962) (0)
- Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy@@@Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865 (1986) (0)
- Revisiting Gettysburg: A Poignant Encounter Of Soldiers And Civilians With History (1999) (0)
- James Lee McDonough. Stones River — Bloody Winter in Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1980. Pp. xiv, 271. $14.50 (1982) (0)
- Haig, Nivelle, and Third Ypres (1971) (0)
- The Jefferson Davis Papers (2013) (0)
- The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 1: 1837–1861. Ed. by John Y. Simon. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. xxxix + 458 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $15.00.) (1969) (0)
- A Tribute to Those Who Preserve Original Sources (1996) (0)
- The Civil War: An Unvarnished Account Of The Late But Still Lively Hostilities (2011) (0)
- Fields of glory : an illustrated narrative of American land warfare (1962) (0)
- Rebel Brass: The Confederate Command System@@@Sherman's March Through the Carolinas@@@The Decisive Battle of Nashville@@@They Met at Gettysburg (1957) (0)
- Notes on an Engagement at Green Springs, Near Trevillian Station, Virginia, June, 1864 (1943) (0)
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