Michael S. Sherry (born 1945) is an American historian, and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University.

Life[edit]

He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975.^[1]

Awards[edit]

• 1988 Bancroft Prize
• 2008 LGBT Award for Nonfiction from the Lambda Literary Foundation^[2]

Works[edit]

• The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War (UNC Press Books, 2020). online reviews
• "Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline." in Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Taylor and Francis, 2015) pp. 134–152.
• "The United States and Strategic Bombing: From Prophecy to Memory." in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (Free Press, 2008).
• Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. UNC Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8078-3121-2.
• In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s. Yale University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-300-07263-1.
• Edward Tabor Linenthal; Tom Engelhardt, eds. (1996). "Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline". History wars: the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-4387-7.
• "Patriotic orthodoxy and US decline." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 27.2 (1995): 19-25. online
• "The language of war in AIDS discourse." in Writing AIDS: gay literature, language, and analysis (1993): 39-53.
• “War and Weapons: The New Cultural History.” Diplomatic History 14#3 1990, pp. 433–46, online
• The rise of American air power: the creation of Armageddon. Yale University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-300-04414-0.
• "The Military." American Quarterly 35.1/2 (1983): 59-79. online
• Preparing For the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45 (Yale UP, 1977)
• “Making Military Policy and Military History.” American Quarterly 28#5 1976, pp. 589–600, online

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Mallon, Thomas (November 11, 2007). "The Homintern". The New York Times.
• Montanarelli, Lisa (25 November 2007). "They're here, queer and art pioneers in Sherry's 'Gay Artists'". San Francisco Chronicle – via SFGate.com.
• Jervis, Robert (October 1987). "The Rise of American Airpower: The Creation of Armageddon". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Vol. 43, no. 8. pp. 51–52. ISSN 0096-3402.