John Shy

John Willard Shy is a military historian and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan.^[1][2] Shy is part of a group of military historians who examined the interplay of the military, politics, and society in the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history.^[3]

Education[]

Shy attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in the class of 1952.^[1] He received his master's degree from University of Vermont in 1957.^[1] Shy graduated with his PhD from Princeton in 1961.^[1]

Career[]

Shy specializes in the American Colonial and Revolutionary periods.^[1]

The University of Michigan presented him with the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1994.^[4]

Shy received the Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2002.^[5]

Shy gave the 2008 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History.^[6]

Selected Works[]

• Paret, Peter, and John W. Shy. Guerrillas in the 1960s. New York: Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, by Praeger, 1962. OCLC 275746
• Shy, John W. Toward Lexington; The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
• Shy, John W. A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0195020138
• Gilbert, Benjamin, and John W. Shy. Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780–1783: From His Original Manuscript Letterbook in the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press, 1989. ISBN 0472101129

References[]

External links[]

• John Shy at IMDb