Dr. Richard Meixsel

Education

Ph. D., Ohio State University

Fields and specialties

Military history; South/Southeast Asian history; modern U.S. history

Teaching areas

Military history; India; U.S. history

Research interests

Philippine military history

Selected publications

Frustrated Ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

“The War Against Spain in the Philippines in 1898,” History Now 31 (Spring 2012) on-line at http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/2012-03/perspectives-america%E2%80%99s-wars

“`Dear Brother Walter’--Losing touch with an ex-soldier brother in the Philippines: Selected Correspondence of Rose and Walter Mikesell,” Bulletin of the American Historical Collection 38, no. 4 (October-December 2010).

“Give Us G.I.s!” [a review essay], Bulletin of the American Historical Collection 36, no. 2 (April-June 2008).

“American Exceptionalism in Colonial Forces?: The Philippine Scout Mutiny of 1924," in Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig, eds., Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2005)

Clark Field and the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Philippines, 1919-1942 (Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 2002)

"Manuel L. Quezon, Douglas MacArthur, and the Significance of the Military Mission to the Philippine Commonwealth," Pacific Historical Review 70, no. 2 (May 2001)