Michael S Sherry

Biographic Data

ID679963
NAMEMichael S Sherry
GIVEN NAMESMichael S
FAMILY NAMESherry
SIGNATURESHERRY M S
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS39
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Marginalized in the Military

    Open AccessMichael S SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History2023

    Journal Article Marginalized in the Military: Bedwetters and Many Others Get access David Fitzgerald. Militarization and the American Century: War, the United States and the world since 1941. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 255 pp. $35.95 (paperback). Michael S Sherry Michael S Sherry Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 4, September 2023, Pages 72…

  • Cruising for Conspirators

    Open AccessMichael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans Da Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime Get access Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans Da Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination as a Sex Crime. By Alecia P Long. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xvi, 247 pp., $28.00.) Michael Sherry Michael Sherry Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…

  • The Punitive Turn in American Life

    Michael S SherryBOOKPunitive Turn in American Life2020

    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imb…

  • Implacable Foes

    Open AccessMichael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    The big war still yields big books, despite academic presses' preference for short ones. Here is another, by the veteran historians Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio. In its density, meticulous documentation, evenhanded judgment, and precise, sober prose, it resembles the many official United States histories of World War II (not a bad standard) on which it draws, along with abundant other secondary and primary sources. Its encyclopedic approac…

  • Military Service and American Democracy

    Michael S SherryARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Military Service and American Democracy is about policies governing enlistment, recruitment, conscription, and stateside service in the U.S. armed forces. The analysis does not extend to service abroad in combat and does little to engage the often-ugly public dramas that swirled around integration of the armed forces, the swelling ranks of women in the military, and policy on gay and lesbian service personnel. His focus is institutional history, …

  • Toward an Empire of Justice

    Michael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History2016

    Katherine Unterman offers another story of rising American imperial ambitions and actions, in this case forged in response to a late nineteenth-century “crisis of international fugitives”—initially, often fleeing to Canada—in an age of increased and speedier travel (4). (Unterman leaves unclear how much of a crisis there really was, as opposed to a perception of one and a manipulation of that perception by financial chieftains eager to recover pu…

  • Colloquy

    Laura A Belmonte, Mark Philip Bradley et al.ARTICLEDiplomatic History2015

    Mark Bradley: Queer isn’t a word you see much in the pages of Diplomatic History or the program for SHAFR’s annual conference. Indeed, a quick lexical check of article titles since the journal began publication in 1977 for “gay,” “homosexual,” “lesbian,” “transgender,” and “queer” brings up absolutely nothing (bracketing the single title reference to the Enola Gay ). You may not be surprised. You should be. Queer history and queer studies occupy …

  • The Vietnam War

    Michael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEThe International History Review2010

  • Dead or alive

    Open AccessMichael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEReview of International Studies2005Cited by: 2

    After 11 September 2001, the Administration of George W. Bush dismissed any criminal-justice model, put forth by various voices at home and abroad, for understanding and combating terrorism. This was ‘war’, the President insisted on 17 September, as he did repeatedly – directly, implicitly, and by analogy – in his 20 September address to Congress and on many later occasions, with American war in Afghanistan and later Iraq making that claim true. …

  • A Hidden-Hand Garrison State

    Michael S Sherry, Michael SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

    Journal Article A Hidden–Hand Garrison State? Get access Friedberg Aaron L.. In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Antistatism and its Cold War Grand Strategy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 416 pp. Notes, index. $22.95 (paper). Michael Sherry Michael Sherry Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 163–166…

  • Men Like That

    Michael S Sherry, Michael Sherry et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 5

    Journal Article Men like That: A Southern Queer History. By John Howard. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiv, 395 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-35471-7.) Get access Michael Sherry Michael Sherry Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Page 1105, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675405 Published: 01 December 2…

  • Take the Young Stranger by the Hand

    Michael S Sherry, John Donald Gustav-WrathallARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA. By John Donald Gustav-Wrathall. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 267 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-226-90784-8.) Get access Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Page 813, https:/…

  • In the Shadow of War

    J Garry Clifford, Michael S SherryARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1997

    In this magisterial book, a prize-winning historian shows how war has defined modern America. Michael Sherry argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as important as the Revolution, the end of the frontier, and other watersheds in American history. In the fifty years since the war, says Sherry, militarization has reshaped every facet of American life: its politics, economics,…

  • In the Shadow of War

    Andrew J Rotter, Michael S SherryARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. By Michael S. Sherry. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xii, 595 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06111-0.) Get access Andrew J. Rotter Andrew J. Rotter Colgate University, Hamilton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1467–1468, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953027 Publi…

  • In the Shadow of War

    David C Hendrickson, Michael S SherryARTICLEForeign Affairs1996Cited by: 21

    We stand at the end of a violent century, much of it embroiled in some form of war.Living under this "shadow of war" resulted in the "militarization" of American society, according to historian Michael S. Sherry.Evidence of militarization--"the process by which war and national security became consuming anxieties and provided the memories, models, and metaphors that shaped broad areas of national life" (p.xi)--is compelling.This rather disturbing…

  • Projections of Hegemony and Consent in Film

    Michael S SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History1995

    These books explore how political and cultural authorities forged consent for their policies at home and abroad during the heyday of American power, from World War II into the mid-1960s. Thomas Doherty tells brilliantly what historians already know in a general way. Robert Corber explores in more labored fashion what we have only begun to confront. As in most cultural studies, their work makes few direct connections between culture and foreign po…

  • Patriotic orthodoxy and U.S. decline

    Michael S SherryARTICLEBulletin of Concerned Asian…1995

    Debate over the National Air and Space Museum's Enola Gay exhibit revealed important changes in what can be called “patriotic orthodoxy” (a useful term in that it captures the sensibilities of certain forces, although its opponents were hardly “antipatriotic”). For self-proclaimed patriots-the Air Force Association (AFA), the American Legion, and their corporate and Congressional allies—cultural victory at home, not military power abroad, was the…

  • Scientists in the Cold War

    Michael S SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History1994

    Journal Article Scientists in the Cold War: Masters or Servants? Get access Baucom Donald R.. The Origins of SDI, 1944–1983. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. 276 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.Herken Gregg. Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI. A Twentieth Century Fund Book. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 317 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Michael S. Sherr…

  • The Devil We Knew

    Michael S Sherry, H W Brands et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 4

    Journal Article The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War. By H. W. Brands. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. x, 243 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-507499-8.) Get access Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 794–795, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081379 Published: 0…

  • We Value Teaching Despite--and because of--Its Low Status

    Michael S SherryARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 2

    Journal Article We Value Teaching despite—and because of—Its Low Status Get access Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry professor of history Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1051–1054, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081445 Published: 01 December 1994

  • A Preponderance of Power

    Michael S Sherry, Melvyn P LefflerARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. By Melvyn P. Leffler. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. xxii + 689 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8047-1924-1.) Get access Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 725–726, https://do…

  • Coming Out Under Fire

    Michael S Sherry, Allan BerubeARTICLEThe American Historical Review1991

  • War and Weapons

    Michael S SherryARTICLEDiplomatic History1990

    Advancing what he gracelessly calls “the discourse idea,” Jeff Smith writes: “In this book, statements by President Reagan are treated as equally revealing a text as works by Shakespeare and Orwell, while Shakespeare's and other texts of earlier times are treated as equally relevant to the nuclear question as a Reagan speech or Dr. Strangelove” (p. xv.) The cultural approach to the history of war and weapons just might be getting out of control, …

  • The War in South Vietnam

    Michael S Sherry, John Schlight et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The War in South Vietnam: The Years of the Offensive, 1963–1968. By John Schlight Washington and The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam. By Mark Clodfelter New York Get access Michael S. Sherry Michael S. Sherry Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 737–739, https://doi.org/10.23…

  • The Rise of American Air Power

    Harry R Borowski, Michael S SherryARTICLEJournal of American History1988Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. By Michael S. Sherry. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. xv + 435 pp. $29.95.) Get access Harry R. Borowski Harry R. Borowski United States Air Force Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887982 Published: 01 September 1…