John Maass C.V.

John Richard Maass

U.S. Army Center of Military History

103 Third Ave., SW

Ft. McNair, D.C. 20319

202-685-2337  john.maass@us.army.mil

 

 

Education              

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      • Ohio State University, Ph.D., Early American History, 2007 (advisor: John L. Brooke). Dissertation topic: A “Complicated Scene of Difficulties”: The Revolutionary War and State Formation in North Carolina, 1776-1789.  Graduate Assistantship, 2002-2007. Minor fields: Military, Native American.
      • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Master of Arts in History, 2002. Advisor Robert M. Calhoon.  Member: Phi Alpha Theta.
      • Washington and Lee University, Bachelor of Arts in History, magna cum laude, 1987.  4 Year Army ROTC Scholarship recipient.

 

Grants/Awards

• Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship, 2007
• Society of the Cincinnati Library Research Fellowship, 2007.
• Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Study award, 2006.
• Henry H. Simms Award for dissertation research support, the Ohio State University, 2005.
• Conference Scholarship award, “Cultures in Conflict – The Seven Years’ War in North America,” October 2004, Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, 2004.
• Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students Ray Travel Grant, for paper presentations in Ireland, 2004.
• Ohio State University College of Humanities Small Research Grant, for paper presentations in Ireland, 2004, 2007.
• Society for Military History Travel Grant recipient, for presentation at annual meeting, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007.

 

Publications

            Books/Articles

• “‘Too Grievous for a People to Bear’: Impressment and Conscription
  in Revolutionary North Carolina,” The Journal of Military History, 73 #4, October, 2009.
• “The Greatest Terror Imaginable: Cornwallis Brings his Campaign to Goochland, 1781,” Goochland County Historical Society Magazine, Vol. 47, October, 2009.
• “‘The Cure for All Our Political Calamities’: Archibald Maclaine and the Politics of Moderation in Revolutionary North Carolina,” The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. LXXXV, July, 2008.
•  “’From Principles of Humanity and Virtue’: Moderation and the Revolutionary Settlement in North Carolina,” Journal of Backcountry Studies, Vol. 2, #2, Autumn 2007.
• “The Draft, 18^th Century,” Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Sage Publications, 2005).
• “A Spirit of Disobedience: Scotch-Irish Disaffection in the Revolutionary War, 1780-1781,” Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, (Fall 2004).
• “‘This Dangerous Fire’: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson, and the Challenge of the Virginia Militia, 1780-1781,” Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History, 2004, pp. 49-59.
• “All this Poor Province Could Do: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762,” The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. LXXIX, January 2002.
• “That Unhappy Affair:” Horatio Gates and the Battle of Camden (Camden, SC: Kershaw County Historical Society, 2001).
• “To Disturb the Assembly: Tarleton’s Charlottesville Raid and the British Invasion of Virginia, 1781,” Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn 2000.

 

Reviews

• Cultures in Conflict:  The Seven Years’ War in North America.  Edited by Warren Hofstra.  The Historian, Vol. 7, #3.
• The Lost State of Franklin: America’s First Secession, by Kevin T. Barksdale.  The North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXVI, July, 2009.
• Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution, by Gerald M. Carbone.  Military History, September/October, 2008.
• The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794, Terry Lipscomb, ed. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 109, Issue 2, April, 2008.
• Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, by John Ferling.  The North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXV, Jan. 2008.
• Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion, by Charles Townsend.  H-War, H-Net Reviews, October, 2007.
• “The French and Indian War: A Review Essay,” Journal of Backcountry Studies, Vol. II, Issue 1, Winter-Spring 2007.
• Whatever You Resolve to Be: Essays on Stonewall Jackson, by A. Wilson Greene.  H-Civil War, H-Net Reviews, May, 2007.
• The Day It Rained Militia: Huck’s Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, by Michael Scoggins.  The Journal of Southern History, Volume LXXII, November, 2006.
• The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, by Colin Calloway. The North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXIII, April, 2006.
• The Southern Strategy: Britain’s Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780, by David K. Wilson. The North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXIII, January, 2006.
• The First Way of War, by John Grenier. The North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXII, October, 2005.
• A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War, by Richard Bak. The Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 31 (2), Fall 2005.
• This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina 1725-1775, by Bradford J. Wood. North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXII, January, 2005.
• A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780, Carl Borick. Southern Historian, XXVI, Spring, 2005.
• Governor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman, by Charles D. Rodenbough. North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXI, October, 2004.
• The Frontier War for American Independence, by William R. Nester and The French and Indian War, by Alfred A. Cave. Journal of Military History, Vol. 69, #1.
• Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754-65, by Matthew C. Ward. Journal of Military History, 68 #3 (July 2004).
• South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, by John W. Gordon. in North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXI, April, 2004.
• Between the Lines: Banditti of the American Revolution, by Harry M. Ward, North Carolina Historical Review, LXXX, April 2003.
• Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756-63, by John Oliphant, North Carolina Historical Review, LXXXI, October, 2003.

 

Lectures/

Presentations                     

• “Lord Cornwallis invades Goochland County, 1781,” Goochland County Historical Society Meeting, Goochland, VA, October, 2009.
• “An Extreme Violent Spirit: War, Peace, and the Politics of Enmity in Revolutionary North Carolina,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Ogden, UT, April 2008.
• “Tarleton’s Charlottesville Raid and the British Invasion of Virginia, 1781,” Richmond American Revolution Round Table, University of Richmond, January 2008.
• “North Carolina and the Shaping of a Colonial Identity,” Irish Conference of Historians, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18–20 May 2007.
• “Nathanael Greene, Moderation and the Revolutionary Settlement in the South, 1780-1783,” Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Frederick, MD, April 2007.
• “Edward Braddock and the Verdict of History,” The Potomac History Symposium, Alexandria, VA, October 2005.
• “Conjoined Histories: Scotch-Irish Disaffection in the Revolutionary War, 1780-1781,” American Conference on Irish Studies annual meeting, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, April 2005.
• “’Those mutinyous rascals’: Militia Disaffection in Revolutionary Rockbridge County, 1780-1781,” Rockbridge County Historical Society Annual Meeting, Lexington, VA, March 2005.
•  “That Unhappy Affair: Maj. General Horatio Gates and the Battle of Camden, August 16, 1780,” Society for Military History Annual Conference, Charleston, SC, February 2005.
• “Reluctant Rebels: Disaffection and Defense in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781,” Kings Mountain Forum, Kings Mountain National Military Park, S.C., September 2004.
• “North Carolina and the Shaping of a Colonial Identity, 1754-1762,”, Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888 Conference, UNC at Greensboro, September 2004.
•  “Scotch-Irish Disaffection in the Revolutionary War, 1780-81,” 18^th Century Ireland Society and 18^th Century Scottish Studies Society joint meeting, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, June 2004.
• “’A Spirit of Disobedience’: Ulster Scots and Disaffection in the Revolutionary War, 1780-81”, XV Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, Omagh, Northern Ireland, June 2004.
• “Reluctant Rebels: Disaffection and Defense in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781,” Society for Military History Conference, Bethesda, MD, May 2004.
• “’This Dangerous Fire’: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson and the Challenge of the Virginia Militia, 1780-1781,” Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH, April 2004.
• “’But What Can I Do Without Men’: Nathanael Greene and the Challenge of the Southern Militia, 1780-1781.” Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar, James Madison University (VA), November 2003.
• “But What Can I Do Without Men? Nathanael Greene, Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Militia,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky Univ., October 2003.
• “The Nature of British Command in Virginia, 1781,” Society for Military History Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 2003.
• “All this Poor Province Could Do: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762,” Society for Military History Annual Conference, Madison, WI. April 2002.
• “Provincials, Provisions and Paper Bills: North Carolina and the Seven Years War,” meeting of Southern Historians of the Piedmont (SHOP), Winter 2002.
• “Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton and the Dynamics of Command,” Guilford Courthouse National Park Annual Lecture series, March 2002.
• “Banastre Tarleton and the Dynamics of British Command,” National Park Service “1781 Virginia Campaign” Conference at Yorktown National Battlefield, VA, January 2002.
• “North Carolina’s Backcountry and the Seven Years War,” Ft. Dobbs (NC) State Historic Site, April 2001.
•  “Gen. Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden, 1780,” Missouri Valley Historical Conference, Omaha, NE March 2001.

 

 

Service to Profession

                            

• Editorial Assistant, The Journal of Backcountry Studies, 2005-present.
• Program Committee Chair, “General Nathanael Greene and the Revolution in the South” Symposium, Camden, SC; April 2006.
• Program Committee Chair, “Camden Campaign (1780)” Symposium, Camden, SC; Camden, SC, April 2004.
• Conference Assistant, SHEAR 2003, Ohio State University.
• Member of “Project History Committee,” Battle of Camden Battlefield Preservation Project,” appointed June 2002.
• Symposium creator, coordinator and organizer, “Banastre Tarleton and the American Revolution in the South”, Camden, SC, April 2002.   
• The Wade Papers, 1986-1987.  Prepared a 235-page analysis of a previously unexamined collection of 25 Civil War letters of a local Confederate soldier, in the collection of the Stonewall Jackson House Museum, Lexington, VA.  Project served as the basis for local middle school learning project in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
• The Rockbridge Civil War Roundtable, 1981-1987. Founder and first president of this monthly Civil War history forum in Lexington, VA.

 

Languages          

• German (reading)