CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

CHAPTER 1:
“For Honor, Duty, and Liberty”: Heroes of the Civil War (1862–1865)

CHAPTER 2:
Frontier Honor: Heroes of the Indian Wars (1867–1897)

CHAPTER 3:
“Honor to the Race”: Black Loyalists and the American Wars for Empire in Cuba and the Philippines (1898–1917)

CHAPTER 4:
Carrying the Banner of Hope: Heroes from the War to End All Wars (1917–1918)

CHAPTER 5:
Seizing the Hero’s Mantle: Heroes in World War II (1941–1945)

CHAPTER 6:
Cold War Civil Rights Warriors: The Korean War and Black Portraits of Bravery (1950–1953)

CHAPTER 7:
Soldiers in the Second Indochina War: The Vietnam War and Black Heroism under Fire (1965–1973)

Epilogue:
Keeping the Faith: Lessons of Black Heroism for Twenty-First-Century America

Pantheon of Heroes

Appendix

Endnotes

Photo Credits

About the Author