The Society for Military History is an United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-based international organization of scholars who research, write and teach military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

 of all time periods and places. It includes Naval history

Naval history

Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history....

, air power history

Air power history

Air power history is the branch of military history that analyses and chronicles the activities of air forces as well as the other organisations, including the air branches of armies and navies, that undertake military aviation...

 and studies of technology, ideas, and homefronts. It publishes the quarterly refereed journal titled The 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 and Lexington, Virginia 20-23 May 2010.

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. Membership is open to anyone and includes a subscription to the journal.

Officers

Officers (2009-2010) are:

• President Dr. Brian M. Linn
• Vice President Dr. Joseph T. Glatthaar
• Executive Director Dr. Robert H. Berlin
• Treasurer Dr. Graham A. Cosmas
• Journal Editor Dr. Bruce Vandervort
• Journal Managing Editors James R. Arnold and Roberta Wiener
• Recording Secretary & Photographer Thomas Morgan
• Webmaster & Newsletter Editor Dr. Kurt Hackemer
• Archivist Paul A. Thomsen
• Board of Trustees: John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Reina Pennington, Brian Holden Reid, Jennifer Speelman, James Willbanks, Mitchell Yockelson, Tami Biddle, Sebastian Cox
  Sebastian Cox
  Mr Sebastian Cox, MA , is the Head of the Air Historical Branch of the Royal Air Force, a specialist archive and history unit based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex, which seeks to maintain and preserve the historical memory of the RAF and to develop and encourage "an informed understanding of RAF and...
  
  , Kelly DeVries, David W. Hogan, Gregory Urwin, Kathleen Broome Williams

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:

• Peter Maslowski, 2010
• Richard Kohn, 2009
• Jeremy Black
  Jeremy Black
  Jeremy Black may refer to:*Sir Jeremy Black , British admiral*Jeremy Black , drummer for Apollo Sunshine and Mouth Music*Jeremy Black , British military historian...
  
  , 2008
• James McPherson
  James McPherson
  James McPherson may refer to:* James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction* James Alpin McPherson, Australian bushranger* James B. McPherson, General in the United States Civil War...
  
  , 2007
• Robert Doughty, 2006
• Dennis Showalter
  Dennis Showalter
  Dennis E. Showalter is a professor of history at Colorado College who specializes in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001. In addition, Showalter is an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of...
  
  , 2005
• Allan R. Millett, 2004
• Edward J. Drea, 2003
• John Shy, 2002
• Richard Overy
  Richard Overy
  Richard Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World he chose the 50 key dates of world history....
  
  , 2001
• David M. Glantz, 2000
• Geoffrey N. Parker, 1999
• Stephen E. Ambrose, 1998
• Robert M. Utley
  Robert M. Utley
  Robert Marshall Utley is an author and historian who has written sixteen books on the history of the American West. He was a former chief historian of the National Park Service. Fellow historians commend Utley as the finest historian of the American frontier in the 19th century.The Western History...
  
  , 1997
• John Keegan
  John Keegan
  Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL is a British military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime, and intelligence warfare, as well as the psychology of battle.-Life and career:John...
  
  , 1996
• Martin Blumenson
  Martin Blumenson
  Martin Blumenson was an American military historian who served as a historical officer with the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies in World War II and later became a prolific author whose works included an authoritative biography of General George S...
  
  , 1995

Distinguished Book Awards

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

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, ed. 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
  Robert M. Citino
  Robert M. Citino is an American historian, currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas. He specializes in German military history and has earned acclaim by writing several historical books on the subject...
  
  , 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
  Hew Strachan
  Brigadier Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War...
  
  , 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