Announcements and Events
JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE
Jack Greene, a longtime SMH member, has a complete print run of the Journal of Military History from 1989 to the present that he is offering to his fellow members before posting it on ABEBOOKS. The set can be acquired for $2.50/issue plus postage. Interested parties can reach Mr. Greene at lbj.greene@thegrid.net.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ABC-CLIO is seeking nominations for the fourth annual Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History. The award recognizes scholars for outstanding leadership in advancing the discipline of military history at all levels of instruction. The award is named for Spencer Tucker, a retired professor and author or editor of more than 30 books. Dr. Tucker held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute and is now Senior Fellow of Military History at ABC-CLIO. In 2006, ABC-CLIO recognized Dr. Tucker for his significant work in military history scholarship and for making that scholarship accessible and relevant to today's students in a series of award-winning publications on war and conflict, including ABC-CLIO's encyclopedias on the Korean War, the Vietnam War, World War I, and World War II.
The award is intended for scholars who engage in activities that enhance the intellectual development of history teachers and/or students and for pathbreaking efforts to build bridges between university and secondary school history teachers. The award includes $500 and an engraved commemorative desk clock. The winner of the award will be announced at the 2010 Society for Military History (SMH) Conference. The 2007 winner was Dr. Dennis Showalter, the 2008 winner was Dr. Linda Karen Miller, and the 2009 winner was Dr. Robert M. Citino.
To nominate someone for the award, please submit a one page letter describing how the nominee has advanced the discipline of military history. The letter should provide specifics on some of the nominee's major accomplishments and activities in military history that have propelled the intellectual development of educators at all levels. In addition, please include the nominee's curriculum vitae if possible. Nominations should be submitted to Pat Carlin, Manager of Editorial Development for Military History, at pcarlin@abc-clio.com. All nominations must be submitted by March 15, 2010.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
The Michigan War Studies Review (ISSN 1930-045X) is seeking to expand its roster of contributors. The MWSR publishes book reviews, literature surveys, original essays, commentary, and other material in the field of military studies, with a purview extending from antiquity to the present. Information about subscribing (gratis) to and writing for the Review is available at the official website - http://www.miwsr.com.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. announces an exhibition of 25 prints by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641–1676). "Pomp and Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's 'Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua' is now open and on view through August 22, 2010. Bouzonnet Stella’s prints depict the visit of Holy Roman Emperor to Mantua in 1433, in the style of bas-reliefs from Trajan’s Column in Rome. Using the grand pictorial language and iconography of the Roman military, Bouzonnet Stella’s prints are relevant to military history, and may be of interest to SMH members.
Pomp and Power features a set of twenty-five engravings entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua by Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641–1676), a French artist who mastered the art of printmaking with help from her uncle, painter and printmaker Jacques Stella. A close friend of Nicolas Poussin and court artist to Cardinal Richelieu in Paris, Jacques invited thirteen-year-old Antoinette and her siblings to live in his prestigious lodgings in the Louvre. There, she produced copies of paintings by her uncle and Poussin and received important commissions from French officials.
In 1675, Antoinette executed The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua for Louis XIV’s minister of finance as part of a large-scale effort by the French government to emulate the appearance of Classical Greek and Roman sculpture in French national art. Engraved after a sixteenth-century stucco frieze in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Italy, by Renaissance artists Giulio Romano and Francesco Primaticcio, Antoinette’s prints employ the grand pictorial language of ancient Rome to depict the visit of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismond to Mantua in 1433. Masterfully executed, her engravings illustrate the power of a narrative borrowed from antiquity, employed in sixteenth-century Italy, and sought after by the seventeenth-century French court.
For more information, see http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/detail.asp?exhibitid=203.
PRIZE COMPETITION
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2010-2011 Research Fellowships for Historians. The Gilder Lehrman Institute invites doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars to apply for research fellowships in American history. For 2010-11, ten GLI Fellows will receive $3,000 to support research within an American history archive in the New York City metropolitan area. Research must be completed within one year of the award. Past fellows have worked in the archives of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, the New-York Historical Society, the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among others. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online by May 1, 2010. To read the complete guidelines and begin your application, visit www.gilderlehrman.org/fellowships.html.
Questions about GLI Research Fellowships? Email fellowships@gilderlehrman.org.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Editor, Civil War History
The Kent State University Press invites qualified scholars to submit proposals to edit Civil War History beginning with volume fifty-eight (2011).
Published quarterly, Civil War History is the foremost scholarly journal of the sectional conflict in the United States, focusing on social, cultural, economic, political, and military issues from antebellum America through Reconstruction. The editor solicits, evaluates, and selects articles and reviews and prepares each issue’s manuscript for submission to the Press. Proposals should include an editorial statement of purpose and CV. The successful proposal will include at least a five-year editorial commitment and a detailed letter of support from the candidate’s academic institution.
Send proposals by postal mail no later than April 1, 2010, to: Will Underwood, Director, The Kent State University Press, 307 Lowry Hall, PO Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001 USA
No email submissions please.
Will Underwood, Director
The Kent State University Press
307 Lowry Hall
PO Box 5190
Kent, Ohio 44242 USA
phone 330.672.8094
fax 330.672.3104
Email: wunderwo@kent.edu
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
The National World War II Museum is proud to host its third International Conference on World War II, March 18-20, 2010 in New Orleans, LA.
The National World War II Museum’s first International Conference on World War II in 2006 set the precedent for outstanding scholarship and public history on the most pivotal event of the modern era. The Museum continues this important initiative on March 18-20 in New Orleans as the 2010 International Conference features riveting presentations of the most comprehensive knowledge and perspectives on World War II. Among the compelling speakers are such noted historians and authors as Dr. Donald Miller, Rick Atkinson, Dr. Gerhard Weinberg, Robert Edsel, Dr. Allan Millett, Alex Kershaw, Walter Isaacson and Sir Max Hastings.
COLD WAR PRIZE COMPETITION
For the sixth year, the John A. Adams Center at the Virginia Military Institute is pleased to announce that it will award prizes for the best unpublished papers dealing with the United States military in the Cold War era (1945-1991). Any aspect of the Cold War military is eligible, with papers on war planning, intelligence, logistics, and mobilization especially welcome. Please note that essays which relate aspects of the Korean and Southeast Asian conflicts to the larger Cold War are also open for consideration.
Not only do we invite your submission of previously unpublished pieces, but we encourage you to pass along this notice to colleagues or promising graduate students who might be working in this area.
Prizes: First place will earn a plaque and a cash award of $2000; second place, $1000 and a plaque; and third place, $500 and a plaque.
Procedures: Entries should be tendered to the Adams Center at VMI by 15 July 2010. Please make your submission by Microsoft Word and limit your entry to a maximum of twenty-five pages of double-spaced text, exclusive of documentation and bibliography. A panel of judges will, over the summer, examine all papers; the Adams Center will then announce its top three rankings early in the fall of 2010. The Journal of Military History will be happy to consider those award winners for publication. In addition, the Adams Center would like to post the better papers on its website--with the permission of the author, of course.
Submissions and questions:
Professor Malcolm Muir, Jr., Director
John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis
Department of History
Virginia Military Institute; Lexington, VA 24450
muirm@vmi.edu
540-464-7447/7338
Fax: 540-464-7246
ARTICLE OF INTEREST
The April 2009 issue (Volume 51, Number 2) of Comparative Studies in Society and History contains an article entitled "Soldiers, Citizens, and the State: East German Army Officers in Post-Unification Germany", by Andrew Bickford at George Mason University. Cambridge University Press and the journal's editor thought that SMH members might want to read this article, which can be accessed at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displaySpecialPage?pageId=1668
