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MA in Military History
Concentration in the American Revolution (24 semester hours)
APUS offers one of the nation’s only graduate concentrations on the American Revolution. Students study the philosophies, personalities, strategies, leadership, and other factors that led to, influenced, and resulted from the United States of America’s foundation and permanent break from Great Britain. As a major event in the larger sweep of the Enlightenment, the following aspects of the American Revolution are analyzed: principles of colonialism, monarchy, democracy, republic, and nation-building; military leadership, strategies and individual soldiers on each side; international diplomacy; economics; and American culture.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:
- Dissect and critique the American Revolution from its antecedents to its legacy including events leading to the revolt, Declaration of Independence, strategy and tactics, campaigns, and the aftermath of war on the new nation.
- Analyze the American Revolution in reference to the operational contributions of American and British military leadership using selected land battles as examples of the strategies and tactics involved.
- Evaluate an early and pivotal campaign in the American Revolution by critiquing the strategy, tactics, and results of campaign on the subsequent course of the Revolution and post-war Anglo-American relations.
- Explain the perspective of the American Revolution from the British viewpoint in relation to colonial policies, diplomacy, military leadership, and other influences in Great Britain during and after the war.
- Assess and critique the conclusive military strategy of the American Revolution and why the strategy was distinctive from other military theatres of operation.
HIST500 Historical Research Methods
MILH510 Studies in US Military History
HIST501 Historiography
MILH511 Great Military Philosophers
HIST553 History of Colonial America
MILH637 Seven Years War
HIST551 American Revolution in Context
MILH531 Strategy, Tactics & Leadership of the American Revolution
MILH532 British Perspective of the American Revolution
MILH536 American Revolution
HIST657 Antebellum America: Prelude to the Civil War
HIST691 Writing a Thesis Proposal
MILH699 Military History Capstone
They say this degree, and other’s like it, are 36 graduate level credits, but I count 39.
Tools for Writers
Libreoffice.org rather than MS Office.
Full program included that will never expire! Free for life updates with lifetime license so no yearly subscription or key code required ever again! You are free to install to both desktop and laptop without any additional cost, and everything you need is provided on USB; perfect for offline installation, re installation and to keep as a backup.
No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty. Updated in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month
https://nanowrimo.org/ set up an account and get ready for November!
Mistake
Boeing messed up my Voucher. The email says it’s for the first Humanities class. The Voucher attachment says it’s for the first History class.
Do I pay for the first Humanities class myself, or do I follow the lead of Boeing’s mistake and go in the History direction instead?
Current Goal
CompTIA A+
CompTIA Security +
CompTIA Network+
I will probably head for Cybersecurity after this sequence.
Paying for Masters
I was medically laid off from Boeing in 2022 and have an education benefit I can use to pay for half of my Masters degree in either some form of History or in Humanities based on the Great Books of the Western World.
The benefit is $3,000 per calendar year and runs out Jul 2025 (after three years).
I can squeeze two classes in this year, two more next year, and two more classes in the early part of 2025.
It helps that I chose an affordable degree program in the first place.
I have looked at Liberty University as well, but I am going with American Public University.
Perhaps I will take the LSAT test
ABA-Approved Law Schools With Approved Distance Education J.D. Programs
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Cleveland State University College of Law
University of Dayton School of Law
University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law
Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles)
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
St. Mary’s University School of Law
Seattle University School of Law
South Texas College of Law-Houston
Suffolk University Law School
Syracuse University College of Law
Vermont Law School
This list has sure gotten bigger!
Mayflower Descendant evidence for Robert Tilley/Mary Hawkins
John Tilley, his wife Joan, and daughter Elizabeth were passengers on the Mayflower. John’s brother Edward, with his wife Ann/Agnes were also passengers; Elizabeth was the sole survivor of the first winter.
John Tilley, was born at Henlow, Bedfordshire, where he was baptized on 19 December 1571, the son of Robert and (poss.) Elizabeth ( ) Tilley. He married at Henlow, 20 September 1596, Joan (Hurst) Rogers. He and his wife died in the general sickness of the first winter in 1620, leaving their daughter Elizabeth an orphan.
John signed the Mayflower Compact on 11 November 1620, as the ship was anchored at Provincetown Harbor. On 6 December 1620, John joined one of the expeditions along the inner coastline of Cape Cod under the leadership of Myles Standish. It was during this expedition that the party found and selected Plymouth as the site of the future settlement. John was likely on the other two expeditions as well and it was during these expeditions that the men became sick from the freezing weather.
Note that in 1999, a descendant of Robert2 and Mary (Hawkins) Tilley traced her line and was able to join the General Society of Mayflower Descendants through Robert’s parents, John and Joan Tilley of the Mayflower.
Children of John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley: [baptized at Henlow]
- Rose2 Tilley, baptized 23 October 1597; died young.
- John Tilley, baptized 26 August 1599; no further record.
- Rose Tilley, baptized 28 February 1601/02; no further record.
- Robert Tilley, baptized 25 November 1604; married at St Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire, 1 November 1632, Mary Hawkins; died 1639; he and Mary had two sons and a daughter.
- Elizabeth Tilley, baptized 30 August 1607; married at Plymouth, John Howland, a fellow Mayflower passenger; died at Swansea, 21 December 1687. See John Howland for their children.
Sources:
“English Ancestry Of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson And Cooper,” by Robert L. Ward, The American Genealogist [TAG] 52 [1976]:198-208.
“The lost children of Bedfordshire’s Pilgrim Fathers: The Tilley family of the Mayflower,” by Joy Forster, Mayflower Quarterly 65 [Nov. 1999]:322-325.
Mayflower Passenger References, (from contemporary records and scholarly journals), by Susan E. Roser. 2011. pp. 383-88.
Doctorate/PhD
There are two basic routes to getting a PhD. One involves first getting a Masters degree and then moving on to a PhD. The other involves finding a MA/PhD combined program where you end up doing both, but if you fail to complete the PhD you are still awarded the Masters as a parting gift. The second method is called being fully-funded…getting paid to be a student.
I have never put serious thought into the combination MA/PhD, but I have sure looked at hundreds of Masters degrees.
I will spend some time today looking up combination MA/PhD degrees.
Wish me luck!

