Alexander G. Lovelace

Alexander G. Lovelace
Bentley Annex 409
History
lovelace@ohio.edu

Education

Ph.D. in History from Ohio University
M.A. in History from The George Washington University
B.A. in History from Messiah College [now Messiah University]

Bio

Alexander Lovelace is an adjunct instructor in the History Department and a Scholar in Residence in the Contemporary History Institute. The winner of two teaching awards, he has taught at several colleges in Ohio and Maryland. His research interests focus on American military history from the American Civil War to the early Cold War. Much of his writing and interests have focused on command decisions and strategy during World War II. His first book, The Media Offensive: How the Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy during World War II, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2022. He has also written widely for both academic and non-academic periodicals.

Dr. Lovelace serves as the Article Compiler for the Journal of Military History and a member of the Steering Committee for the Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor Civil War Round Table in Athens, Ohio.

Research Interests

Modern Military History
Command, Logistics, and Strategy
World War II Historiography
Military Media Relations
World War II

Publications

Book

  • The Media Offensive: How the Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy during World War II Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2022.

Book Chapter

  • "‘A Major Readjustment’: Omar Bradley’s War Against The Stars and Stripes," in Reporting World War II, ed. G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer, 213-233. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.

Journal Articles

  • "The New History of War Reporting: A Historiographical Perspective on the Role of the Media and War," American Journalism 40, no. 1 (2023): 95-106.
  • "Tomorrow’s Wars and the Media," United States Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 52, no. 2 (2022): 117-134.
  • "Meade and the Media: Civil War Journalism and the New History of War Reporting," The Journal of Military History 85, no. 4 (2021): 907-929.
  • "‘Slap Heard Around the World’: George Patton and Shell Shock," United States Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 49, no. 3 (2019): 80-91.
  • "Spies in the News: Soviet Espionage in the American Media during World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War," The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 28, no. 2 (2015): 307-327.
  • "Amnesia: How Russian History Has Viewed Lend-Lease," The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 27, no. 4 (2014): 591-605.
  • "The Image of a General: The Wartime Relationship between General George S. Patton Jr. and the American Media," Journalism History 40, no. 2 (2014): 108-120.
  • "Trends in the Western Historiography of the United States’ Occupation of Germany," International Bibliography of Military History 34, (2013): 148-163.

Courses

HIST 2010: History of the United States, 1865-present
HIST 2300: Capitalism and Its Critics: An Intellectual History
HIST 3081: The Civil War and Its Aftermath
HIST 4798: Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History
INST 4950: War and Peace Studies Seminar