Society for Military History

The Society for Military History is a United States-based international organization of scholars who research, write, and teach military history of all time periods and places. It includes Naval history, air power history, and studies of technology, ideas, and homefronts. It publishes the quarterly refereed Journal of Military History.

An annual meeting is held every year. Recent meetings have been held in Frederick, Maryland, from April 19–22, 2007; Ogden, Utah, from April 17–19, 2008; Murfreesboro, Tennessee 2–5 April 2009; Lexington, Virginia 20–23 May 2010; Cantigny First Division Foundation, Lisle, IL 9–12 June 2011 with the theme "Ways of War"; Army Historical Foundation, Arlington, VA 10–13 May 2012 with the theme "The Politics of War"; New Orleans, LA 14–17 March 2013 with the theme "War, Society and Remembrance"; Kansas City, MO April 3–6, 2014 with the theme “Transformational Conflicts: War and its Legacy Through History” ^[1] The 82nd Annual Meeting had the theme "Conflict and Commemoration: The Influence of War on Society" and was held on April 9–12, 2015 in Montgomery, Alabama.^[2]

83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History with the theme “Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries” is scheduled to be held April 14–17, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.^[3]

The Society also sponsors sessions on military topics at the annual Northern Great Plains History Conference.

The society was established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 as the Society for Military History. It has over 2,300 members including many prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.^[4] Membership is open to anyone and includes a subscription to the journal.

Officers

Officers (as of 2014) are:^[5]

• President Dr. Gregory J. W. Urwin
• Vice President Dr. Bill Allison
• Executive Director Dr. Robert H. Berlin
• Treasurer Dr. Graham A. Cosmas
• Journal Editor Dr. Bruce Vandervort
• Recording Secretary & Photographer Thomas Morgan
• Webmaster & Newsletter Editor Dr. Kurt Hackemer
• Archivist Paul A. Thomsen

Former Presidents

• Dennis Showalter
• Carol Reardon
• Theodore Ropp
• Jeffrey Grey
• Roy K. Flint

Prizes

The Samuel Eliot Morison Prize recognizes not any one specific achievement, but a body of contributions in the field of military history, stretching over time and showing a range of scholarly work contributing significantly to the field. Recent winners include:^[6]

• Conrad C. Crane, Army Heritage and Education Center, United States Army War College, 2016
• Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015
• Rick Atkinson, Washington, DC, 2014
• Ira D. Gruber, Rice University, 2013
• Ronald H. Spector, The George Washington University, 2012
• Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, 2011
• Peter Maslowski, 2010
• Richard Kohn, 2009
• Jeremy Black, 2008
• James M. McPherson, 2007
• Robert Doughty, 2006
• Dennis Showalter, 2005
• Allan R. Millett, 2004
• Edward J. Drea, 2003
• John Shy, 2002
• Richard Overy, 2001
• David M. Glantz, 2000
• Geoffrey N. Parker, 1999
• Stephen E. Ambrose, 1998
• Robert M. Utley, 1997
• John Keegan, 1996
• Martin Blumenson, 1995

Distinguished Book Awards

The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.

2016

• David L. Preston, Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
• Pierre Razoux, The Iran-Iraq War
• Paul Robinson, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army
• David T. Zabecki, editor. Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History

2015

• Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
• Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
• Michael V. Leggiere, Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon

2014

• Samuel J. Watson, Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821 and Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821-1846
• Geoffrey Parker, War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
• George W. Gawrych, The Young Ataturk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey
• Spencer C. Tucker, editor, American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection

2013

• Richard S. Faulkner, School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces
• Robert M. Citino, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943
• Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov
• Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader, Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War

2012

• John Sloan Brown, Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989-2005
• Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven (eds.), The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
• Mungo Melvin, Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
• Steven E. Clay, US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 (4 vols.)

2011

• Chad L. Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
• Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
• John MacFarlane, Triquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism
• Clifford J. Rogers, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

2010

• Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
• Edward J. Drea, Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945
• J.P. Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War
• Spencer C. Tucker, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

2009

• Ingo Trauschweizer, The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War.
• Jamel Ostwald, Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• Andy Wiest, Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN.
• Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, and Michael Whitby, eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

2008

• Jon Latimer, 1812: War with America
• John Lawrence Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898
• Martha Hannah, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War.
• Spencer C. Tucker, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History

2007

• John Grenier, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814.
• Robert A. Doughty, Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War.
• Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus.
• Peter Karsten, ed. Encyclopedia of War and American Society. 3 vols.

2006

• H. P. Willmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action
• George Satterfield, Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678)
• Steven E. Woodworth and Kenneth J. Winkle, Atlas of the Civil War
• Colin White, ed., Horatio Nelson, The New Letters

2005

• Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
• Robert M. Citino, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
• James T. Controvich, United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography

2004

• George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
• Terry Copp, Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy
• Joshua Brown, ed., A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied
• Michael J. Crawford, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History: Volume III 1814-1815

2003

• Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
• Hew Strachan, The First World War. Volume I: To Arms
• Stuart Hills, By Tank Into Normandy: A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe From D-Day to VE Day
• David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political and Military History (3 vol)

2002

• Mark Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliances, and U.S. Strategy in World War II
• Ronald H. Spector, At War At Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century
• Robert H. Ferrell, editor, for William S. Triplet, A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa

2001

• Geoffrey P. Megargee (2000): Inside Hitler's High Command (2000)^[7]

See also

• Military history
• Military history of the United States
• Naval history

References

External links

• SMH website