The Journal of Military History

The Fate of the Day: Bringing Back the Dead 250 Years After the Revolution

George C. Marshall Lecture · Vol. 90, No. 2 · April 2026 · pp. 281–292

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Rick Atkinson, “The Fate of the Day: Bringing Back the Dead 250 Years After the Revolution,” The Journal of Military History 90, no. 2 (April 2026): 281–292.

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