A.J. (Jack) Langguth, a former foreign correspondent, longtime USC professor and historian of wars whose book on the Vietnam conflict was widely admired for a narrative sweep that gave serious weight ...

USC professor of journalism Langguth (Union, 1812) maintains America's first civil war occurred during the 1830s when Andrew Jackson expelled Indian tribes from the Deep South. Recounting the events ...

The genocidal removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. Over and over, A.J. Langguth reports in his unfocused but nonetheless ...

Many historians have followed the “Trail of Tears” — the forced relocation of the Cherokee people — but A.J. Langguth has taken a somewhat different route through this well-trodden territory. Langguth ...

Mildred “Midge” Ellen Langguth, 82, formerly of Palo, passed away Oct. 9, 2009, at the home of her daughter, Marcia, in Avondale, Ariz. Private services will be at the home of Marcia and Jay Perry in ...

Langguth follows his popular Patriots with a fast-paced account of the War of 1812. Ostensibly a fight over the impressment of American sailors by the British, this little-understood three-year ...