John Shy

John Willard Shy is a military historian and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan. Shy is part of a group of military historians who examined the interplay of the military, politics, and society in the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history.

Education
Shy attended the United States Military Academy, graduating in the class of 1952. He received his master's degree from University of Vermont in 1957. Shy graduated with his PhD from Princeton in 1961.

Career
Shy specializes in the American Colonial and Revolutionary periods.

The University of Michigan presented him with the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1994.

Shy received the Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2002.

Shy gave the 2008 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History.

Selected Works

 * Paret, Peter, and John W. Shy. Guerrillas in the 1960's. New York: Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University, by Praeger, 1962.
 * Shy, John W. Toward Lexington; The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
 * Shy, John W. A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0195020138
 * Gilbert, Benjamin, and John W. Shy. Winding Down: The Revolutionary War Letters of Lieutenant Benjamin Gilbert of Massachusetts, 1780-1783 : from His Original Manuscript Letterbook in the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press, 1989. ISBN 0472101129