Militarization and violence: Militarizing the menagerie: American zoos from World War II to the early Cold War / John M. Kinder -- War and trauma: Francis Parkman and the challenge of writing the pain of the other / Kathleen Kennedy -- Agents of destiny: the Texas Rangers and the dilemma of the conquest narrative / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. -- Gender and ethnicity: A prison without bars: Charles Lee and the society of gentlemen prisoners during the American Revolution / James J. Schaefer -- From Maiden to Mambisa: Evangelina Cisneros and the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898 / Belinda Linn Rinc©on -- Reconstructing warriors: myth, meaning, and multiculturalism in US Army advertising after Vietnam / Jeremy K. Saucier -- Imagination and emotion: "Remember the Alamo" to "remember the Maine": the visual ideologies of the Mexican and Spanish-American wars / Bonnie M. Miller -- Virtuous victims, visceral violence: war and melodrama in American culture / Jonna Eagle -- On angel's wings: the religious origins of the US Air Force / Timothy J. Cathcart -- Foretelling and forgetting: The prophecies of Civil War soldiers: a history of the future / Jason Phillips -- Randall Wallace's we were soldiers: forgetting the American war in Viet Nam / Susan L. Eastman -- Marshaling the imaginary, imagining the martial: or, what is at stake in the cultural analysis of war? / Amy S. Greenberg.