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Since the founding of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1802, more than eight hundred military schools have existed in this country. The vast majority have closed their doors, been absorbed into other educational institutions, or otherwise faded away, but others soldier on, adapting to changing times and changing educational needs. While many individual institutions have had their histories written or their stories told, to date no single book has attempted to explore the full scope of the military school in American history. Cadets on Campus is the first book to cover the origin, history, and culture of the nation’s military schools—secondary and collegiate—and this breadth of coverage will appeal to historians and alumni alike. Author John Alfred Coulter identifies several key figures who were pivotal to the formation of military education, including Sylvanus Thayer, the “father of West Point,” and Alden Partridge, the founder of the school later known as Norwich University, the first private military school in the country. He also reveals that military schools were present across the nation, despite the conventional wisdom that most military schools, and, indeed, the culture that surrounds them, were limited to the South. Coulter addresses the shuttering of military schools in the era after the Vietnam War and then notes a curious resurgence of interest in military education since the turn of the century.

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The author has distilled an amazing amount of information to produce this very thorough study of American military schools. Cadets on Campus will undoubtedly stand as the authoritative reference book on that topic for many years to come. --The Journal of America's Military Past --The Journal of America's Military Past

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John Alfred Coulter II, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, is former commandant of cadets at the Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and former president of the Lyman Ward Military Academy in Camp Hill, Alabama. He is currently a decision support analyst/primary exercise planner for the US Pacific Command in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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