Beth Bailey is a member of the history department at the University of Kansas, where she directs the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies. As a historian of the modern United States, she has written about the history of gender and sexuality and the history of the U.S. military. Her many books include Sex in the Heartland, America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force, and Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History. Throughout her career, she has been interested in the history of social change, and has lately focused on the role of military institutions in American society.
Arguing that we need to understand how major institutions have incorporated, rejected, or struggled with demands for social change, her project, “The US Army and ‘the Problem of Race’ during the Vietnam Era,” argues that institutions shape social change, and analyzes the U.S. Army’s response to racial conflict and calls for racial justice during the Vietnam Era.
https://bethbailey.org/
