CALL FOR PAPERS

76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2-5 April 2009

The Society for Military History is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 76th Annual Meeting, hosted by Middle Tennessee State University at the Embassy Suites Conference Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee April 2-5, 2009. The conference theme is "Warfare and Culture," and will explore relationships between culture (societal, strategic, or organizational) and the development of military policy and institutions, as well as the conduct of combat operations. While the theme of the conference will provide a basic guide to determining the final program, the Program Committee will gladly consider proposals on other facets and perspectives of military history.

Panel proposals must include a panel title, contact information for all panelists, a brief description of the purpose and theme of the panel, abstracts of each of the three papers (one paragraph each), brief CVs for all panelists, including commentator and panel chair. Proposals for individual papers are welcome and should include a brief abstract, brief CV, and contact information. All panelists must be Society for Military History members. Deadline for proposals is October 1, 2008. Proposals may be submitted electronically to conference coordinator Derek Frisby (dfrisby@mtsu.edu) or by regular mail to Derek Frisby, MTSU History Department, Murfreesboro, TN 37132. The program committee will acknowledge receipt of your proposal within two weeks of submission. If you fail to receive such notice, please contact the conference coordinator.

The meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Conference Center in Murfreesboro, TN with the Embassy Suites serving as the host hotel. Murfreesboro is easily accessible via Nashville International Airport (BNA). The conference site is located just 30 miles south on I-24E, and is adjacent to The Avenue - Murfreesboro which offers a range of local restaurants and shopping.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

International history conference: 1918 Year of Victory
Australian War Memorial, Canberra
27-28 November 2008

Members of the Society for Military History might like to know that the Australian War Memorial in Canberra has announced the program for our international history conference: 1918 Year of Victory. The program is now available on the Australian War Memorial's website at: http://www.awm.gov.au/events/conference/

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Whither the Revolution: How the Early Republic Retained and Remolded the Legacy of the Revolution," the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic will be held July 16-19, 2009, in Springfield, Illinois.

For the biecentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the program committee, mindful of Lincoln's role in interpreting and reinterpreting the nation's founding, has determined to seek explorations about the fate of the Revolutionary inheritance in the early republic. The years of Lincoln's rise to political prominence focused attention specifically on the meaning of the founding generation's legacy. It would be appropriate to assess the power of the Revolution to mold the expectations and directions of the next three generations of Americans. In the varied areas of American life­political, social, intellectual and economic, scholars should define where the Revolutionary tradition was sustained, where it was modified, and where it was replaced. One of the many understandings that might result from such an enterprise is determining whether Lincoln maintained, modified, or replaced the Revolutionary heritage. Although the program committee is seeking sessions on the inheritance of the Revolution in the age of Lincoln, its members in no sense want to discourage scholars from presenting the results of their research on other topics in the history of the early republic.

The Program Committee welcomes the submission of individual papers and full sessions; it as well invites sessions employing formats other than presentation of papers. Proposals should include a brief abstract for the panel/session (maximum 600 words) as well as an abstract for each paper (maximum 300 words) and a brief (maximum one page) vita for each participant, including chairs and commentators. Every session proposal must include a single coversheet that lists for every participant a complete and updated mailing address, e-mail, phone number, and current affiliation. All interested participants are encouraged to send their submissions by e-mail attachments; the format can be in MS Word, WordPerfect, or pdf (Adobe Acrobat). Please note that all program participants must be members of SHEAR or register at the nonmember fee. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.

Send submissions to:
Professor Jim Huston, Chair
SHEAR Program Committee
History Department
Oklahoma State Uiniversity
501 LSW
Stillwater, OK 74078-3054
email: james.huston@okstate.edu

Program Committee
Jim Huston, Oklahoma State Univ., Chair
Stephen Aron, Univ. California at Los Angeles
Joan E. Cashin, Ohio State University
Larry E. Hudson, Jr., University of Rochester
Richard R. John, Univ. Of Illinois at Chicago
Stacey M. Robertson, Bradley University
Jewel L. Spangler, University of Calgary
Richard Taylor, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

JOB OPPORTUNITY - CORRECTED

STRATEGIC STUDIES/WAR STUDIES

The U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI, invites applications for faculty appointments, open with respect to rank, in the Strategy and Policy Department. The Department seeks candidates with scholarly attainment, teaching experience, and particular expertise in the fields of war studies, international relations, international security affairs, political economy, regional studies, diplomatic and international history, and naval and/or military history. These positions are subject to final approval. Anticipated starting date is 1 August 2009.

The Naval War College provides a one-year professional military education program to senior officers of all the armed services and civilians from a number of U.S. government agencies, leading to an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies. Military officers from more than fifty countries also form part of the student body. The strategy courses use strategic theory, the history of war, and an examination of current-day conflicts to develop critical analytical skills for understanding the interrelationship of policy aims, strategy, and military operations. The interdisciplinary nature of the strategy courses requires that faculty members develop a breadth of knowledge well beyond their primary area of specialization. Additional details regarding the Naval War College and the Strategy and Policy Department curriculum can be obtained by visiting the Naval War College website at www.nwc.navy.mil/academics.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. and teaching experience. Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and letters of reference. Applications must be received by 1 October 2008. Candidates claiming Veterans Preference must state in writing they are claiming veterans preference. The Naval War College is an equal opportunity employer.

Application materials should be sent to:

Dr. John H. Maurer
Chairman
Strategy and Policy Department
Naval War College
686 Cushing Road
Newport, RI 02841-1207
john.maurer@nwc.navy.mil
401.841.2678

TOUR OPPORTUNITY

The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society will host a "Tarleton's 1781 Charlottesville Raid" program on Sept. 27, 2008 in Charlottesville, VA consisting of lectures and a bus tour of related privately owned Revolutionary War historic sites. The tour will include Boswell Tavern, Castle Hill, The Farm, and the Charlottesville Court Square, all of which featured prominently in the raid of Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton through the Virginia Piedmont during the British invasion of 1781 leading up to Yorktown. Cost: $40. For more info about the event and registration, please contact the ACHS at 434-296-1492, attention Keri. http://www.albemarlehistory.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS

2009 Naval History Symposium

The History Department of the United States Naval Academy invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 2009 Naval History Symposium in Annapolis, Maryland, from 10-12 September 2009. The 2007 symposium was extremely successful, with over 300 in attendance and 138 papers presented.

Proposals on any aspect of naval and maritime history are welcome. Paper proposals should include an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a one-page vita. Panel proposals are also encouraged and should contain an abstract and vita for each panelist. Please mail proposals to Commander C.C. Felker, History Department (12C), 107 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5044; or send electronic proposals to felker@usna.edu. The deadline for submitting proposals is 10 January 2009. The program committee expects to finalize the program in February 2009. Final versions of papers are due by 1 August 2009.

A limited number of travel stipends are available to scholars residing outside the United States and graduate students within the United
States. Please indicate your desire to apply for a travel stipend in the cover letter or email that contains your proposal.

The program committee will award prizes to the best papers presented at the Symposium. As in the past, we will publish selected papers at a later date.

Information on the 2009 symposium can be found online at www.usna.edu/History/symposium. Specific inquiries should be directed to CDR C.C. Felker at email felker@usna.edu.

AIR FORCE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 2008 AWARDS BANQUET

The Air Force Historical Foundation has announced its annual awards banquet for Monday, October 6, 2008, in Arlington, Virginia. The banquet will feature General Ronald R. Fogleman, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, as the guest speaker, and the Foundation will present four prestigious awards during the banquet. The awards include the second annual General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz Award for sustained, significant contributions to the making of Air Force history to Major General John R. Alison, USAFR (Ret), who was a member of Lieutenant General Claire Lee Chennault's Flying Tigers preceding US entry into World War II.

The Foundation will present its second annual Major General I. B. Holley Award for sustained, significant contributions to the research, interpretation, and documentation of Air Force history to Brigadier General Alfred F. Hurley, USAF (Ret), PhD, who was a long-time chair of the US Air Force Academy's Department of History and who recently retired as long-time President of the University of North Texas System.

The Foundation also will present its Air Power History Best Article Award to Lieutenant Colonel Donald R. Baucom, USAF (Ret), PhD, for "Wakes of War: Contrails and the Rise of Air Power, 1918-1945," in Air Power History, Summer & Fall 2007. The Foundation has published that scholarly, peer-reviewed journal and its predecessors quarterly since September 1954.

The Foundation will present its Best Air Power History Book Award to Colonel Stephen P. Randolph, USAF (Ret), PhD, for Powerful and Brutal Weapons: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2007). The panel that selected this book wrote that it "describes the North Vietnamese 1972 spring offensive, and the Republic of Vietnam's and the United States' reactions to it from political and military angles. The book has been meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, articulately written, is solidly objective, and strategic."

The awards banquet will be preceded by two events:

- "Ops Talks" at 4:30 pm, an informal talk on current US Air Force issues and Q&A session featuring Lt Gen David A. Deptula, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, and

- A reception at 6:00 pm prior to the banquet at 7:00 pm.

CONTACT: Tom Bradley, Executive Director, Air Force Historical Foundation, (301) 736-1959, execdir@afhistoricalfoundation.org.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: ADVANCING MILITARY HISTORY

ABC-CLIO, award-winning publisher of historical reference works including recently published multivolume encyclopedias of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War, is currently developing a wide-ranging and definitive project on U.S. military history. This scholarly, comprehensive project consists of authoritative encyclopedic entries centered on the major wars of American history, including the current conflicts in the Middle East. It covers not only the military aspects of the conflicts, but also the political, social, economic, and technological developments that impacted or were impacted by the conflicts.

ABC-CLIO has assembled a team of top historians to work on this groundbreaking project, and we are currently seeking additional qualified contributors to give this study the depth and broad interpretation that it deserves. For more information on this project, including a project description, list of entries for this year, compensation information, and sample entries, please email Dr. Paul Pierpaoli, ABC-CLIO Fellow of Military History and Diplomatic History, at ppierpaoli@abc-clio.com. When contacting Dr. Pierpaoli, please indicate your affiliation, areas of interest, and attach a copy of your curriculum vitae.

SMH MEMBERS' HELP SOUGHT

The National Museum of the United States Army is engaged in the process of developing themes and specific exhibits for their galleries. Whenever possible, they intend to use the words of real soldiers wherever feasible and appropriate to tell the Army story. For many periods, locating personal narrative accounts of Army service is a question of winnowing through an embarrassment of riches, as there are so many moving, poignant accounts to draw from. This is certainly the case in looking at the two World Wars, the Civil War, and some other periods. The difficulty arises in finding good accounts from earlier periods and more obscure conflicts or periods of service. Examples are the War of 1812, frontier Army service in the pre- Civil war era, the Cold War, and the first Gulf War, to name a few. The museum is requesting the assistance of SMH members in locating and or recommending personal narrative accounts of US Army service that are enlightening, informative, and useful in reflecting the soldier experience in the US Army over time. They are especially interested in enlisted men's accounts.

Those who might contribute to this effort should contact Stephen McGeorge at stephen.c.mcgeorge@us.army.mil. While a gloss or summary of what an individual account covers will be helpful, it is not necessary. The essential information he needs is a bibliographical citation sufficient to locate the account and evaluate it as it may pertain to a variety of National Museum gallery and exhibit themes.

JOURNAL SEEKING SUBMISSIONS

Scientia Militaria, an academic journal published by the Military Academy of South Africa on a bi-annual basis, is actively seeking international contributors. The journal appears both in print and online and can be accessed at http://academic.sun.ac.za/mil/scientia_militaria/default.asp.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE

The Marine Corps Historical Center offers a number of prestigious and generous fellowships and research grants, funded by the non-profit Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, for students pursuing the study of military history. Clicking on the following link will take you to the related section of the U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division web page where information about our Fellowships and Research Grants may be found: http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/General/Grants_Internships_Grants.htm.