author : Elizabeth D. Sametfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryReaderElizabeth D. Samet received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in English literature from Yale, and she is the author of Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898. She has been an English professor at West Point for ten years.