This graduate degree has been designed to allow students to develop an area of concentration in a field of study that best suits your professional aspirations and interests. This program ensures that students will be exposed to three historical perspectives to gain a wide perspective, while allowing individuals to tailor graduate study to individual needs. In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcomes objectives, the Master of Arts in Military History also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. With reference to each of the respective areas of military studies, graduates in this degree program will be able to: - Appraise different approaches to history and historical method in order to evaluate and propose a specific methodology for a particular project.
- Define, classify, and articulate in oral or written form the major trends, events, and people that have shaped military history, and evaluate them in context by comparison and contrast.
- Define, classify, and articulate in oral or written form the major trends, events, and people that have shaped U.S. military history, and evaluate them in context by comparison or contrast.
- Examine, analyze, and evaluate at least one specialized historical sub-discipline such as the American Revolution, Civil War, and World War.
- Synthesize historical issues into a coherent and comprehensive paradigm of the human condition.
- Analyze data, information, and concepts pertinent to various methodologies of historical research.
- Create an historical research proposal in which data, information, and concepts can be evaluated and synthesized.
Degree Program Requirements Core Courses (12 semester hours)
RC576 / HIS 500 - Historical Research Methods
RC575 / HIS 501 - Historiography
LW545 / MLH 501 - Studies in U.S. Military History
LW540 / MLH 601 - Great Military Philosophers
Concentration in the American Revolution
APUS offers one of the nation’s only graduate concentrations on the American Revolution. Students study the philosophies, personalities, strategies, leadership, and other factors that led to, influenced, and resulted from the United States of America’s foundation and permanent break from Great Britain. As a major event in the larger sweep of the Enlightenment, the following aspects of the American Revolution are analyzed: principles of colonialism, monarchy, democracy, republic, and “nation-building;” military leadership, strategies and individual soldiers on each side; international diplomacy; economics; and American culture. Objectives
Upon completion of this program students will be able to: - Dissect and critique the American Revolution from its antecedents to its legacy to include events leading to the revolt, Declaration of Independence, strategy and tactics, campaigns, and the aftermath of war on the new nation.
- Analyze the American Revolution in reference to the operational contributions of American and British military leadership using selected land battles as examples of the strategies and tactics involved.
- Evaluate an early and pivotal campaign in the American Revolution by critiquing the strategy, tactics, and results of campaign on the subsequent course of the Revolution and post-war Anglo-American relations.
- Explain the perspective of the American Revolution from the British viewpoint in relation to colonial policies, diplomacy, military leadership, and other influences in Great Britain during and after the war.
- Assess and critique the conclusive military strategy of the American Revolution and why the strategy was distinctive from other military theatres of operation.
Concentration Requirements
Complete five (5) courses on the list below: (15 semester hours)
LW567 / HIS 522 - The American Revolution in Context
LW570 / MLH 511 - Strategy, Tactics, and Leadership of the American Revolution
LW569 / MLH 512 - The British Perspective of the American Revolution
LW523 / MLH 614 - The American Revolution Canadian Campaign
LW558 / MLH 615 - The American Revolution Southern Campaign
Choose one of the following: (3 semester hours)
LW562 / MLH 516 - The Seven Years War
LW524 / MLH 517 - Warfare in Colonial America (Pre-Revolution)
LW514 / MLH 518 - America’s Early Conflicts (Post-Revolution
MH680 / MLH 680 - Special Topic - this course, when offered, may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair.
MH690 / MLH 690 - Independent Study – this course may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair.
Graduate Electives (6 semester hours)
Select from graduate level History or Military History Courses that have not been used to fulfill core or concentration requirements.
MH700 / MLH 700 - Separate Comprehensive Examination- Military History
Taken once all other degree requirements have been met. Total Hours: 36 semester hours
Concentration in the Civil War
Oftentimes referred to as the "seminal event" in American history, the Civil War concentration is designed to study the political, cultural, economic, and military issues related to the War Between the States. The degree covers (1) major figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant, (2) obscure figures unknown to the casual observer yet critical to how one understands of the war, and (3) minor figures that are rarely provided the coverage deserved of history, such as the common soldier on each side of the conflict. The major campaigns are analyzed through the use of cutting edge texts and professors’ expert analysis. The war itself is viewed in context; the issues leading up to it and resulting from it are critically analyzed. Graduates of the program can expect to be on their way to becoming "experts" in the Civil War; several graduates of this program have published books and/or articles related to the war. Upon completion of this program students will be able to: - Place events of the Antebellum period, the Civil War, and Reconstruction into the broader scope of American History by assessing the similarities and differences in social, cultural, economic, and political developments in North and South.
- Discern and assess the political, economic, cultural, social, and military aspects of the Civil War to specifically include their impact on causative factors, conduct of the war, and post-war aftermath.
- Examine the operational contributions of Union and Confederate military leaders by critiquing selected land battles of the war as examples of the strategies and tactics involved.
- Compare and contrast the national, theater, and operational command structures of the Union and Confederacy in relation to leadership styles of key military leaders on both sides and the evolution of command and control during the war.
- Identify, assess, and explain the diverse historical assessments and interpretations of the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras as presented in the writings of prominent and influential historians.
Concentration Requirements
Complete five (5) courses on the list below: (15 semester hours)
CW500 / HIS 531 - Civil War: Seminal Event in American History
CW501 / MLH 521- Civil War Strategy and Tactics
CW502 / MLH 522 - Civil War Command and Leadership
CW510 / HIS 630 - Antebellum America: Prelude to the Civil War
CW522 / HIS 633 - Reconstruction and Post Civil War America Choose one of the following: (3 semester hours)
CW519 / MLH 527 - Intelligence Operations in the Civil War
CW524 / MLH 528 - Civil War Cavalry: Theory Practice and Operations
LW504 / MLH 642 - The Mexican – American War: 1846-1848
MH680 / MLH 680 - Special Topic - this course, when offered, may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair.
MH690 / MLH 690 - Independent Study – this course may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair. Graduate Electives (6 semester hours)
Select from graduate level History or Military History Courses that have not been used to fulfill core or concentration requirements.
MH700 / MLH 700 - Separate Comprehensive Examination- Military History
Taken once all other degree requirements have been met.
Total Hours : 36 semester hours Concentration in World War II
Students in the World War II concentration study the history, politics, leaders, strategies, and campaigns under which the 20th Century's history, (and some would argue, the modern world's), seminal events unfolded. The World War II student takes a course of study that includes study of the major political and military leaders of both Allied and Axis powers as well as study of the war's major theaters. Students then have the opportunity to study of major and lesser campaigns and battles, military strategy and leadership, and World War II political and military institutions. Concentration Objectives
Upon completion of this program students will be able to: - Discern and critique the strategies, tactics, leaders and lessons learned during the fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Aleutians, and in the Philippines.
- Explain and assess the strategy, tactics and leadership from the blitzkriegs into France, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union to the campaigns in North Africa and Italy.
- Explain and assess the Allied victory in Europe to include the generalship and decisions concerning the amphibious invasions, airdrops, and the crossing of the Rhine.
- Distinguish the politics, political leadership, and diplomacy in Germany, Japan, and Italy that enabled the rise of the respective countries’ Axis leadership that ruled during World War II.
- Distinguish the political leadership that defined the Allied powers of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia before, during, and post-World War II.
Concentration Requirements
Complete five (5) (15 semester hours) courses from the list below:
LW631 / HIS 560 - World War II in Context
MH530 / MLH 530 - World War II in Europe
LW550 / MLH 531 - World War II in the Pacific
LW630 / MLH 534 - Axis Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy
LW632 / MLH 535 - Allied Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy AND choose one of the following: (3 semester hours)
LW581 / MLH 637 - Barbarossa: Blitzkrieg into Russia
LW582 / MLH 638 - Stalingrad to Kursk
LW583 / MLH 639 - Red Storm over the Third Reich
MH680 / MLH 680 - Special Topic - this course, when offered, may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair.
MH690 / MLH 690 - Independent Study – this course may be applied to fulfill major course requirements or elective requirements with permission of the Department Chair. Graduate Electives (6 semester hours)
Select from graduate level History or Military History Courses that have not been used to fulfill core or concentration requirements.
MH700 / MLH 700 - Separate Comprehensive Examination
Taken once all other degree requirements have been met. Total Hours: 36 semester hours
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