Marvin Fletcher
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interests
- United States; 20th Century
- African American History
- U.S. Military History
Courses Taught
- United States in the Vietnam War
- United States in World War II
- Military History of the Civil War
- Survey of African American History
- American Jewish History
Biography
He has supervised M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations in both African American and U.S. Military History, the most recent being (2009) Jeff Reardon's "Evolution of the U.S. Navy into an effective night fighting force in the Solomon Islands, 1942-43."
Fletcher has published several books in African American military history including Negro Soldiers and Officers in the United States Army, 1891-1917 and America's First Black General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., 1880-1970. He has also done an annotated bibliography of the peacetime U.S. Army between 1900 and 1940. He has published articles and reviews in both of his fields.
He also has researched a history of the Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage, 1929-1933. He also participated in a television documentary on this subject.