Michael S. Sherry

Michael S. Sherry (born 1945) is an American historian, and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University.

Life He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA and Ph.D. in 1975.

Awards 1988 Bancroft Prize 2008 LGBT Award for Nonfiction from the Lambda Literary Foundation

Works The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War (UNC Press Books, 2020). online reviews "Patriotic orthodoxy and American decline." in Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Taylor and Francis, 2015) pp. 134–152. "The United States and Strategic Bombing: From Prophecy to Memory." in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (Free Press, 2008).

"Patriotic orthodoxy and US decline." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 27.2 (1995): 19-25. online "The language of war in AIDS discourse." in Writing AIDS: gay literature, language, and analysis (1993): 39-53. “War and Weapons: The New Cultural History.” Diplomatic History 14#3 1990, pp. 433–46, online

"The Military." American Quarterly 35.1/2 (1983): 59-79. online Preparing For the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45 (Yale UP, 1977) “Making Military Policy and Military History.” American Quarterly 28#5 1976, pp. 589–600, online