Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy

Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. The Air Force Academy was willing to permit the kind of external scrutiny that afforded an objective account of the facts of the first year of integration. For sixteen months, starting on June 26, 1976, the academy allowed the author to interview freely and repeatedly all persons concerned with planning and implementing women's admission. In this volume, the author reports the story of this first year from her work as a historian in those sixteen months.