Ashley Vance is a military historian with decades of experience in public history and storytelling. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in military history at Texas A&M University in College Station. Her dissertation, “On the Edge of Battle: Building a Cold War Army in Germany, 1945-1960,” examines the end of World War II and the postwar occupation of Germany.

Ms. Vance is an expert in the history of the U.S. Army, particularly in the areas of World War II and the early Cold War. She has written and given public lectures on a variety of Army history topics, including the soldier experience at the end of World War II, the U.S. Zone Constabulary in occupied Germany, and the Army’s racial integration program in the early 1950s. She is currently a research assistant at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington D.C.