William B Trousdale

William Trousdale is emeritus curator of anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, former curator at the Freer Gallery, and adjunct instructor at several military academies. In addition to his work on military schools, he is an expert on the art and archaeology of Central and East Asia and on the British colonial period in Asia. Trousdale directed the Helmand-Sistan Archaeological Project in Afghanistan and is author of The Long Sword And Scabbard...See more

William Trousdale is emeritus curator of anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, former curator at the Freer Gallery, and adjunct instructor at several military academies. In addition to his work on military schools, he is an expert on the art and archaeology of Central and East Asia and on the British colonial period in Asia. Trousdale directed the Helmand-Sistan Archaeological Project in Afghanistan and is author of The Long Sword And Scabbard Slide In Asia, Gordon Creeds in Afghanistan, 1839 and 1878-79, Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century, War in Afghanistan, 1879-80: The Personal Diary of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, and City In The Desert(coauthor). See less