Dr. Alexander Bielakowski
Dr. Alexander Bielakowski
Associate Professor of HistoryHistory, Humanities, and LanguagesBiography
Alexander M. Bielakowski is a former U.S. Army Reserve officer who has authored, co-authored, or edited six books, as well as spent more than a decade educating military officers at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Degrees Earned
B.A., Cum Laude, Loyola University Chicago
M.A., Loyola University Chicago
Ph.D., Kansas State University
Courses Taught
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Tudor-Stuart Britain, 1485-1714
- U.S. History to 1877
- U.S. History Since 1877
- U.S. Military History
- Warfare in the Western World, 1648-1945
- World War II
Experience Qualifications
Publications
Proud Warriors: African American Combat Units in World War II. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021.
From Horses to Horsepower: The Mechanization and Demise of the U.S. Cavalry, 1916-1950. Stroud, UK: Fonthill, 2019.
Editor. Encyclopedia of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military. Two Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Co-Author. Buffalo Soldiers: African American Troops in the US Forces, 1866-1945. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2008.
African American Troops in World War II. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2007.
U.S. Cavalryman, 1891-1920. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2004.
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