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 The Journal of Military History.
Activities
The society was established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 to the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 to the Society for Military History. It has over 2,300 members, including many prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.[1] Membership is open to anyone and includes a subscription to the journal.
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:[4]
The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.[5]
2022
Thomas A. Guglielmo, Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military, Oxford University Press
Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer, Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II, Oxford University Press
Ian Ona Johnson, Faustian Bargain: The Soviet–German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, Oxford University Press
Michael S. Nieberg, When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, Harvard University Press
Ruth Scurr, Napoleon, A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows, Penguin Random House
Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and
Sonya O. Rose, editors, Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600, Oxford University Press.
2021
Donald F. Johnson, Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution,University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Daniel Whittingham, Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Meighen McCrae, Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Alexander Watson, The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands, Basic Books, 2020
2020
Monica Kim,
NYU, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Geoffrey Robinson,
UCLA, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66, Princeton University Press, 2018.
Stephen Brumwell, Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty, Yale University Press, 2018.
Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, and Michael Livingston, The Citadel, eds., Medieval Warfare: A Reader, University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Thomas Dodman,
Columbia University, What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
2019
A. Wilson Greene, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America), University of North Carolina Press, 2018
Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, Harvard University Press, 2018.
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller,
J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, editors, Environmental Histories of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018
Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Ilya Berkovich, Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Steven L. Ossad, Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General
Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman, The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, (4 vols.)
2017
Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone, Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the
Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle
Tonio Andrade, The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Laila Parsons, The Commander:
Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948
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
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
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 The Journal of Military History.
Activities
The society was established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 to the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 to the Society for Military History. It has over 2,300 members, including many prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.[1] Membership is open to anyone and includes a subscription to the journal.
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:[4]
The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.[5]
2022
Thomas A. Guglielmo, Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military, Oxford University Press
Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer, Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II, Oxford University Press
Ian Ona Johnson, Faustian Bargain: The Soviet–German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, Oxford University Press
Michael S. Nieberg, When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, Harvard University Press
Ruth Scurr, Napoleon, A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows, Penguin Random House
Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and
Sonya O. Rose, editors, Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600, Oxford University Press.
2021
Donald F. Johnson, Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution,University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Daniel Whittingham, Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Meighen McCrae, Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Alexander Watson, The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands, Basic Books, 2020
2020
Monica Kim,
NYU, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press, 2019.
Geoffrey Robinson,
UCLA, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66, Princeton University Press, 2018.
Stephen Brumwell, Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty, Yale University Press, 2018.
Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, and Michael Livingston, The Citadel, eds., Medieval Warfare: A Reader, University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Thomas Dodman,
Columbia University, What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
2019
A. Wilson Greene, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America), University of North Carolina Press, 2018
Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, Harvard University Press, 2018.
Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller,
J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, editors, Environmental Histories of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018
Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Ilya Berkovich, Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe
Steven L. Ossad, Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General
Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman, The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, (4 vols.)
2017
Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone, Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the
Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle
Tonio Andrade, The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Laila Parsons, The Commander:
Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948
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
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