"ESSAYONS: The Origins and History of the US Army Engineer School addresses the various challenges faced by the school, and provides some indications of the breadth, depth, and complexity of the Engineer School's efforts to train engineers to fight and win America's wars since the American Revolutionary War"-- Provided by publisher.

The origins of the US Army Engineer School --|t The US Military Academy and the institutionalization of engineer training, 1802-48 --|t The Civil War: The US Military Academy and the Engineers respond to challenges, 1848-66 --|t New homes for the Engineer School: Willets Point, 1866-1901, and Washington Barracks, 1901-17 --|t The Great War and its aftermath at the Engineer School at Camp Humphreys and Fort Belvoir, 1917-19 --|t The Engineer School in the Second World War, 1939-45 --|t The Engineer School during the Korean War and the Cold War: from conventional to nuclear and back to conventional battlefields, 1945-65 --|t The Engineer School: training for unconventional war in Vietnam, 1965-73 --|t The Engineer School's final years at Fort Belvoir: training engineers for conventional warfare, 1973-88 --|t The move to Fort Leonard Wood: from Engineer Center to Maneuver Support Center, 1988-2000 --|t The Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood: the transition to counterinsurgency operations and back to large-scale combat operations, 2000-20.