Professor Casey usually teaches the following courses in the Department:

At undergraduate level:

HY116: International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (taught jointly with other members of staff in the Department)

HY311: Limited War during the Cold War Era: The United States in Korea and Vietnam

At postgraduate level:

HY422: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy: From Roosevelt to Reagan

Professor Casey also supervises the following PhD students:

Research student	Provisional thesis title
Ken Letcher	The Revolt of the Generals: President Eisenhower and the U.S. Army, 1953-1958
Yorai Linenberg	TBA
Amal Tarhuni (2016-17)	Britain, the United States and the Radicalisation of Qaddafi's Libya 1969-1986

Newest book

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• The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)

The War Beat, Europe was published in the US on 3 April 2017 and was released in the UK in June 2017. The Kindle version is available on Amazon.

Reviews:

“Steve Casey’s The War Beat is a wonderful chronicle of an extraordinary band of correspondents who covered the defeat of the Third Reich. Based on impeccable research, and written with flair and humanity, this utterly absorbing study chronicles the journalists who put themselves in harm’s way to record the titanic struggle to preserve freedom.”—Alex Kershaw, author of Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris

“Engagingly written and full of illuminating vignettes, War Beat, Europe tells the story of the brave and intrepid correspondents who reported on the European front during the Second World War.  Though subject to military censorship, these courageous journalists never lost sight of their fundamental obligation to keep the public informed.”—Richard R. John, Columbia Journalism School

"This very impressive volume is a superbly researched and beautifully written study of US media coverage of the European theater during World War II.   Its comprehensive and incisive analysis will lead to reconsideration of many standard beliefs regarding the relationship among the media, the armed forces, and the government during this conflict, as well as the individuals whose reporting and visuals helped shape the public image of the war.”—Mark A. Stoler, editor of the George C. Marshall Papers

“The famed American war correspondents who covered the European theater in World War II presented to their readers back home a conflict that was tough, but triumphant.  The War Beat, Europe shows us the competition, hardship, criticism, distrust, and patriotism that characterized the fractious cooperation between the US military and the media.”—Susan Brewer, author of Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq

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Books

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• The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

• When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Confronted Combat Losses, from World War I to Afghanistan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

• Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and the Press in the U.S., 1950-1953, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback 2010.

• Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and Nazi Germany, 1941-45, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback 2004.

• Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).

• The Cold War: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge, 2013 (editor).

• The Korean War at Sixty. London: Routledge, 2012 (editor).

• Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).

• Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars. Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008 (co-editor with Jonathan Wright).

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Articles, chapters and essays

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• ‘Selling a Limited War in Korea, 1950-53,’ in Andrea Dew, Marc Genest, and S.C.M. Paine, eds., From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates War and Revolution, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019.

• ‘The Unprecedented President: Donald Trump and the Media in Historical Perspective,’ Robert Jervis, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse, eds., ISSF Policy Series: America and the World - 2017 and Beyond (The H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series), 2018.

• ‘Confirming the Cold War Consensus: Eisenhower and the Election of 1952,’ in Andrew Priest and Andrew Johnstone, eds., US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2017.

• ‘The 1930s and the Road to War,’ in Oxford Research Encyclopedia in History, Oxford University Press, 2016.

• ‘When Congress Gets Mad,’ Foreign Affairs, 95 (January-February, 2016).

• ‘Reporting from the Battlefield: Censorship and Journalism,’ in Richard Boswell, Evan Mawdsley, and Joe Maoilo, eds., Cambridge History of the Second World War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

• ‘War Correspondents,’ in Dennis Showalter, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

• ‘The Media,’ in Dennis Showalter, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

• ‘The United States,’ in James Matray and Donald W. Boose, eds., The Ashgate Companion to the Korean War, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.

• ‘Rhetoric and Style of Truman's Leadership,’ in Daniel S. Margolies, ed., A Companion to Harry S. Truman, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012.

• ‘Harry Truman, the Korean War, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy in East Asia, June 1950-June 1951,’ in James Matray, ed., The East Asia Legacy of Harry S. Truman, Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012.

• ‘Obama’s Alliances,’ Lowy Institute Working Paper, 2011.

• ‘The Truman-MacArthur Controversy at Sixty,’Historically Speaking (2011), with William Stueck.

• ‘Harry S. Truman’s Mental Map,’ in Casey and Wright, ed., Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011.

• ‘Wilfred Burchett and the UN Command's Media Relations during the Korean War,’Journal of Military History, 74, (2010).

• ‘Casualty Reporting and Domestic Support for War: The U.S. Experience during the Korean War,’Journal of Strategic Studies, 33 (2010).

• ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Mental Map,’ in Casey and Wright, ed., Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008.

• ‘White House Publicity Operations during the Korean War, 1950-1951,’Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35 (December 2005).

• ‘Selling NSC-68: The Truman Administration and the Politics of Mobilization, 1950-51,’ Diplomatic History, 29 (September 2005).

• ‘The Campaign to Sell a Harsh Peace for Germany to the American Public, 1944-48,’History, 90 (January 2005).

• ‘Propaganda in the Korean War,’ in Nicholas Cull, David Culbert, and David Welch, ed., Propaganda and Mass Persuasion, Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2003.

• ‘Red, White, and Bush,’ Foreign Policy, January-February 2002.

• ‘Franklin Roosevelt, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl and the “S-Project,” 1942-44,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 35 (July 2000).

	The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War Against Nazi Germany (2017)
	When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan (2014)
	Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 (2008, paperback 2010)
	Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi Germany (2001, paperback 2004)
	Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War 1968–91 (2015) [co-edited with Jonathan Wright]
	The Cold War. Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic and Security Studies (2013) [editor]
	The Korean War at Sixty: New Approaches to the Study of the Korean War (2012) [editor]
	Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era, 1945-68 (2011) [co-edited with Jonathan Wright]
	Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars (2008) [co-edited with Jonathan Wright]

2019

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Book award interview

Professor Casey was interviewed in the January issue of Historiography in Mass Communication (5:1) about his American Journalism Historian Association Book of the Year Award received last year for The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press). The book provides new insights into what American war correspondents witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front’s perception of World War II. Read the interview.

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 2018

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New publication: "The Unprecedented President"

A new article written by Professor Steven Casey was published by the H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series America and the World – 2017 and Beyond on 2 October, edited by Robert Jervis, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse. The article, entitled “The Unprecedented President: Donald Trump and the Media in Historical Perspective” chronicles the relationship between the White House and the media in the twentieth century. Professor Casey observes that, since the start of the twentieth century, when the White House first became “a full-time propaganda machine,” the president’s relationship with the media has been in a state of constant flux. Past presidents, whether Republican or Democrat, whether dealing with print, radio, television, or the Internet, have all recognized the costs, as well as the benefits, associated with interacting with the media. Despite that, Professor Casey argues that Trump’s use of the media has been too continent, too undisciplined, too unprepared, too untruthful to fit into any pattern of previous behaviour. In this area, he is proving himself to be an unprecedented president.

AJHA 2018 Book of the Year Award

Professor  Casey won the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award for 2018 for his latest book, The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The award, which recognises the best book in journalism history or mass media history published during the previous calendar year was presented at AJHA’s Annual Convention 4-6 October in Salt Lake City, Utah. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, Professor Casey’s book chronicles a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists as they reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience back at home. War Beat, Europe, provides the first comprehensive account of what these reporters witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front’s perception of some of the most pivotal battles in American history. “Our panel of judges agreed that Steven Casey’s work once again established that good history at its best should be good reading,” said Aimee Edmondson from Ohio University, chair of the book award committee. “They also agreed his book provides a landmark work for scholars, an engaging and compelling account of journalists dedicated to reporting the Allied campaigns to dislodge the German forces from Europe.” Read more about the AJHA 2018 Book of the Year Award.

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2017

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Professor Steven Casey on Trump's nuclear bluster precedent

"The closest a US president has come to anticipating Trump’s shockingly bellicose statement was Harry Truman, during the Korean War", argues Professor Steven Casey in his 11 August piece for the The Interpreter. Much alike Donald Trump's bluster, Truman’s words also sent shockwaves through the world. Read the full piece, “Korea: Trump’s nuclear bluster has just one precedent”, in the Lowy Institute website.

Lecture at Ohio State University

On 21-22 April, Professor Steven Casey attended a conference at Ohio State University’s Mershon Center on War, Media, and Public Opinion. The conference brought together leading political scientists, communications scholars, and historians in the field, as well as journalists and policy makers. Professor Casey spoke on “The Media and Military at War, from World War I to Korea,” which highlighted some of the themes of the three major monographs he has published in the past nine years.

New Book released in the US and UK, The War Beat

Professor Steven Casey’s newest book, The War Beat, Europe: The American Media at War against Nazi Germany was released by Oxford University Press in the United States on 3 April. The book was later released in the UK in June of the same year. War Beat, Europe presents the challenges faced by World War II American correspondents mediating between their battlefield reporting and the US press management. Based on a wealth of previously untapped primary sources, Professor Casey provides the first comprehensive account of what reporters, such as Ernie Pyle, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White and Walter Cronkite, witnessed, what they were allowed to publish, and how their reports shaped the home front's perception of some of the most pivotal battles in American history. Order the UK edition on Amazon UK.

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2016

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LSE Excellence in Education Awards

In June 2016, Professor Steven Casey won an LSE Excellence in Education Award. Designed to support the School’s aspiration of creating ‘a culture where excellence in teaching is valued and rewarded on a level with excellence in research’ (LSE Strategy 2020), the Excellence in Education Awards are made, on the recommendations of Heads of Department, to staff who have demonstrated outstanding teaching contribution and educational leadership in their departments.

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2015

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New edited volume, Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War

Professor Steven Casey’s new book, Mental Maps in the Era of Détente and the End of the Cold War, was published in October. The book, edited jointly with Professor Jonathan Wright, is the final volume of a trilogy that explores the ‘mental maps’ of key leaders during the twentieth century. It features thirteen studies, including chapters on Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, Allende and Deng, Nyerere and Mandela. Read more about the book from the publisher, Palgrave-Macmillan.

Professor Steven Casey wins 2015 Richard E. Neustadt Prize

Professor Steven Casey has won the 2015 Richard E. Neustadt Prize for his book, When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Confronted Combat Casualties, from World War I to Afghanistan (Oxford University Press). This is the second time he has won the prize, which is awarded annually by the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association for the best book in American Politics. In 2009, Professor Casey's book, Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1950-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback 2010), also won the Neustadt Prize.

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2014

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New Book, When Soldiers Fall

Professor Steven Casey has just published When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Casualties from World War I to Afghanistan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Buy this book from the publisher: Oxford University Press. To coincide with the publication of this major new book, which transforms our understanding of how American society has confronted major wars since 1914, Professor Casey has appeared on the American public radio show, ‘Roundtable,’ and has also published a number of opinion pieces, including "Obama was Right to Have Republican Robert Gates as Defense Secretary," U.S. News & World Report, 19 January 2014,"What Bob Gates' Memoir Tells Us about Casualties," The Interpreter, 14 January 2014, and "America's Love Affair with Technowar," History News Network, 30 December 2013.

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2010

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2010 Harry S. Truman Book Award

Dr Steven Casey has received the prestigious 2010 Harry S Truman Book Award for his work Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2008).Selling the Korean War, which previously won the 2009 Neustadt Award in American Politics, was selected from a record field of thirty-three entries to emerge as the winner of the Harry S Truman book award. This award recognises the best book published within a two year period that addresses an aspect of the life of US President Harry S Truman or the history of the United States under his presidency. Dr Casey is the first non-American to win this award, whose previous recipients include Dean Acheson, McGeorge Bundy, Bruce Cumings and John Gaddis.

Commenting on the book, Dr. Jeffrey Gall, chair of the Harry S. Truman Book Award subcommittee, said:

“The committee believes that Dr. Casey’s work is a unique and important contribution to the historiography of the Korean War. He explores how, at all levels, the Truman administration worked to control and shape the public’s understanding of what was occurring on the Korean peninsula and to maintain both popular and Congressional support for a conflict unlike any the nation had ever seen.”

“U.S. setbacks in the war clearly helped lead to Truman’s plummeting approval ratings as he left office, yet Casey argues the administration succeeded on other levels. Support for the war never totally collapsed as it might have, and the administration helped the public come to better understand the long, perilous, and complex situation faced by the nation in the emerging Cold War.”

Selling the Korean War has just been published in paperback.