Question: Keith William Nolan was an American military historian with a history degree from Webster University, located in what U.S. state?
Context: Christopher Bassford (born 1953) is an American military historian, best known for his works on the Prussian military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz.  Bassford graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in history and honors for his dissertation on tactical nuclear weapons and completed his MA in American diplomatic history at Ohio University.  Subsequent to receiving his MA, he served five years on active duty as a U.S. Army field artillery officer, with tours in Korea and Germany.  He completed a Ph.D. in modern European history at Purdue University and became director of studies in the theory and nature of war at the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Command and Staff College, then associate professor of National Policy Issues at the U.S. Army War College.  He was Professor of Strategy at the National War College (NWC), in Washington, D.C., from 1999 until 2012, when he joined the faculty of the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) as part of the JSOMA program supporting U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC).  He is the webeditor of The Clausewitz Homepage, a large educational website that has been on-line since 1995. Jonathan M. House (born 1950) is an American military historian and author.  He is a professor emeritus of military history at the U.S. Army United States Army Command and General Staff College.  House is a leading authority on Soviet military history, with an emphasis upon World War II and the Soviet influence upon modern operational doctrine.  Together with David Glantz, he wrote multiple books on the Red Army operations on the Eastern Front, most notably the 1995 work, revised in 2015, "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler". John Albert Lynn (born March 18, 1943) is a military historian who has written on a wide variety of topics in his field, with an emphasis on early modern Europe.  Born in Glenview, Illinois, in 1943, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1964), his Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Davis (1967), and his Ph.D. at UCLA (1973).  Lynn taught briefly at Indiana University and the University of Maine before joining the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978.  During 1994-1995, he was the Oppenheimer Professor of Warfighting Strategy at the Marine Corps University at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.  Retiring from the University of Illinois in 2009, he taught for three years at Northwestern University as Distinguished Professor of Military History.  In 2012, he returned to the University of Illinois to teach part-time as Professor Emeritus of History and in the Department of Political Science, which he has continued to do up to the present.  His current research and teaching interests center on the history of terrorism. Michael W. Flinn (1917–1983) was a British economic historian.  Born into a middle-class family in 1917, he was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School in Manchester, serving as an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.  After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time.  In 1959, he began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, writing an introductory school textbook for history in 1961, which was still in print at his death.  He was awarded a D. Litt by Edinburgh in 1965, and two years later was appointed to a Personal Chair in Social History.  After his retirement in 1978, he lectured in the United States and continental Europe, serving as president of the Economic History Society from 1980 to 1983, when he died. Keith William Nolan (May 7, 1964 – February 19, 2009) was an American military historian, focusing on the various campaigns of the Vietnam War.  He was born in Webster Groves, Missouri; his father was a junior college history instructor who was also a Marine veteran.  Nolan obtained a history degree from Webster University.  Keith Nolan died of cancer in February 2009. John Coyne McManus (born 1965) is a military historian, author, and professor of military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology from St. Louis, Missouri.  McManus has published eleven books on numerous American military history topics, including: the allied invasion of Normandy, American infantry soldiers, and the 7th Infantry Regiment. Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, Missouri. Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-born American chess Grandmaster.  She is famous for having been a child prodigy at chess, for being a pioneer for women in chess, and for being an advocate for chess in education.  She is an Olympic and World chess champion, a chess teacher, coach, writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) at Webster University as well as the head coach for the 2011 and 2012 National Championship college chess teams at Texas Tech University and the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 National Championship teams at Webster University.  The U.S. Collegiate championship has been contested each year since 2001 at the Final Four of College Chess, also known as the President's Cup.  She is the oldest of the famous "Polgár sisters": Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit.  She was the first woman to earn the grandmaster title through tournament play, and is credited with breaking a number of gender barriers in chess. Kimberly Ellen Kagan (born 1972) is an American military historian.  She heads the Institute for the Study of War and has taught at West Point, Yale, Georgetown University, and American University.  Kagan has published in "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "The Weekly Standard" and elsewhere.  She supported the surge in Iraq and has since advocated for an expanded and restructured American military campaign in Afghanistan.  In 2009 she served on Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team. Richard E. Killblane is an American military historian and author.  He has served in the U. S. Army as an enlisted man, an officer and a Department of Army civilian.  Killblane is a veteran of Central American counter-insurgency and Operation Just Cause.  He currently serves as the Command Historian of the U.S. Army Transportation School at Fort Lee, Virginia and has traveled extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan to research convoy operations.  He has published numerous articles and books on military history and is considered an authority on military convoy security.  In 2003, Killblane co-authored "The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen" detailing the life and World War II 101st Airborne Division exploits of Jake McNiece.
Answer: Missouri