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Historic Context for the African American Military Experience (Legacy 98-1762)
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This report describes the African American experience in military service from colonial times to the Korean War, focusing on segregated units and sites on DoD lands. This is a nationwide report covering an extensive timeframe, centering on the time period from 1783, following the American Revolution, to 1954, when troops were integrated.


Historic Context for the African American Military Experience - Report (Legacy 98-1762) (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Smith. James Zeidler.

This report describes the African American experience in military service from colonial times to the Korean War, focusing on segregated units and sites on DoD lands. This is a nationwide report covering an extensive timeframe, centering on the time period from 1783, following the American Revolution, to 1954, when troops were integrated.


Queering 'American': Archaeological Investigations of a 19th c. Military Fort in West Texas (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Eichner.

This paper investigates how racial identity impacted the creation and maintenance of an American frontier and border community using an assemblage from a 19th century American Army encampment from Fort Davis, Texas as a case study. By engaging a queer theoretical framework, this research focuses on how Black, Mexican, and immigrant bodies challenged ideals of normative White citizenship during a period of great social upheaval and racial tension. With thousands of European immigrants and newly...