Robert J. Kodosky

Robert J. Kodosky, Ph.D. (Temple University) teaches military and diplomatic history at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Things They Left Behind: An American Military History (Bloomsbury, 2027); The Nile Swim Club of Yeadon: A History (The History Press, 2024); Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge (The History Press, 2020), Psychological Operations American Style: The Joint United States Public Affairs Office, Vietnam and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2007). He is the co-author with Brent J. Ruswick, Ph.D., of Construction Ahead: Making American History Since 1865 (Great River Learning, 2024). His work also appears in Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three Volume set, Carolyn T. Adams, Howard Gillette Jr., et. al., eds. (University of Penn Press, 2026), The Encyclopedia of Military Science, Kurt Piehler, ed., (Sage, 2013); The Routledge History of Social Protest Music, Jonathan C. Friedman, ed. (Routledge, 2013); and online at Picturing Black History, Origins, and The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.