MGK

Books and monographs

• John Fulton Reynolds: American Soldier, Gettysburg Martyr (under contract with Louisiana State University Press)

• Americans and the Dragon: Lessons in Coalition Warfighting from the Boxer Uprising (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute and the US Army War College Press, 2023)

Book chapters and journal articles

• “Sherman’s Travels: Military Exceptionalisms and the Conduct of Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America” (manuscript in progress)

• “‘Making War Upon the Map’: The U.S. Army’s Forgotten Map Problem, Meade’s Gettysburg Campaign, and Depicting Operational Art,” Army History: The Professional Bulletin of Army History 131 (2024)

• “‘In the Character of their Material, Animate and Inanimate, the Troops of the United States Excelled’: American Theatre-Level Logistics and Supply in the China Relief Expedition of 1900,” International Journal of Military History and Historiography 44 (1) (2024)

• “‘It Is Not on Such Principles that Any Army in the World Is Raised’: John Reynolds, President Polk, and the Professionalism of the U.S. Army Junior Officer Corps in the Mexican-American War,” in James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project, edited by Michael David Cohen (Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2022) [finalist and honorable mention for the 2022 Tennessee History Book Award presented by the Tennessee Historical Society]

• “Sherman and His Historians: An End to the Outsized Destroyer Myth?” The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 51 (4) (2021/2022)

• "The curious case of Catherine Mary Hewitt and U.S. Major General of Volunteers John Fulton Reynolds: bodies, mourning the dead, and religion in the era of the American Civil War," American Nineteenth Century History 19 (3) (2018)

• “Robert Penn Warren, Wendell Berry, and the Dark Side of Civil War History,” Civil War History 64 (2) (2018)

Public scholarship

• “Mexican Gibraltar: When Americans Fought for Monterrey,” 9 June 2025, War on the Rocks

• “William Tecumseh Sherman knew the enduring cruelty of war,” 31 March 2022, The Conversation

• “Americans and the Dragon: Coalition Warfare from the Boxer Rebellion to the Future Battlefield,” 29 July 2021, Modern War Institute at West Point

• “The Soul of Battle: Democracies at War,” 25 March 2021, “Dusty Shelves,” a series at WAR ROOM

• “Imagining Overmatch: Critical Domains in the Next War,” editor (with an introduction), 2 October 2020, “Whiteboard,” a series at WAR ROOM

• “When Americans Marched to Mexico City,” 10 September 2020, War on the Rocks

• "Gettysburg: Profiles in Courage,” 1 July 2020, City Journal

• “Civil War Causation and Antiwar Sentimentalism: Why I Read, and Re-Read, Yael A. Sternhell on the New Revisionism,” 6 May 2017, Muster: How Past Informs the Present, the blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era

Book reviews

• “Chamberlain’s War,” a review of Ronald C. White, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (New York: Random House, 2023), in Law & Liberty, published digitally 28 February 2025

• Review of Ronald C. White, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (New York: Random House, 2023), in the International Journal of Military History and Historiography 44 (2) (2024)

• Review of Earl J. Hess, Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022), in Civil War History 70 (2) (2024)

• Review of Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War (New York: Crown, 2024), in National Review, published digitally 28 April 2024

• Review of Timothy B. Smith, Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25–December 31, 1862 (Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 2022) in The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 53 (4) (2023/2024)

• Review of William D. Adler, Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Army and Economic Development, 1787-1860 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) in the Journal of the Civil War Era 13 (2) (2023)

• Review of Brian Holden Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) in Army History 122 (2022)

• Review of Earl J. Hess, Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020) in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly 125 (3) (2022)

• Review of James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016), in “The Bookshelf,” a blog of the Civil War Monitor, published digitally 16 December 2020

• Review of Timothy B. Smith, The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020) in the Journal of Southern History 86 (4) (2020)

• Review of William B. Kurz, Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016) in the Catholic Historical Review 102 (4) (2016)

• Review of John C. Pinheiro, Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) in American Nineteenth Century History 16 (1) (2015)

• Review of Graham T. Dozier ed., A Gunner in Lee’s Army: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014) in the Journal of the Civil War Era 5 (3) (2015)

• Review of Andrew Delbanco, The Abolitionist Imagination (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012) in American Nineteenth Century History 15 (1) (2014)