Society for Military History Past Annual Meetings
Thanks to the generosity of SMH member David Silbey, we are pleased to offer downloads of conference programs from past annual meetings.

2022
Fort Worth, TX, April 28-May 1 - download conference program
2021
National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA, May 20-23
“Turning the Tide: Revolutionary Moments in Military History” - download conference program
2020.5
The Society hosted a virtual conference on November 13-14 featuring a number of panels that had been accepted for the cancelled conference in Washington, DC. The conference featured a keynote address by former SMH President Jennifer Keene titled “The World War I Centennial in Retrospect.“
2020
Hosted by the Army Historical Foundation, Arlington, VA, April 30-May 3
“Policy by Other Means”
Meeting cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic.
2019
Department of History at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 9-12
“Soldiers and Civilians in the Cauldron of War” - download conference program
2018
College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of History, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, April 5-8
“Landscapes of War and Peace” - download conference program
2017
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Department of History, Florida State University, Jacksonville, FL, March 30-April 2
“Global War: Historical Perspectives” - download conference program
2016
Canadian War Museum and the Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada, 14-17 April
“Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries” - download conference program
2015
The Air University Foundation, Montgomery, AL, 9-12 April
“Conflict and Commemoration: The Influence of War on Society” - download conference program
- Photos from the 2015 annual meeting.
2014
Command and General Staff College Foundation, Inc., Liberty Memorial - National World War I Museum, Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Department of History, University of Kansas, Kansas City, MO, 3-6 April
"Transformational Conflicts: War and its Legacy Through History" - download conference program
2013
Center for the Study of War & Society at The University of Southern Mississippi with the National World War II Museum and Southeastern Louisiana University, New Orleans, LA 14-17 March
"War, Society and Remembrance" - download conference program
2012
Army Historical Foundation, Arlington, VA 10-13 May
"The Politics of War" - download conference program
2011
Cantigny First Division Foundation, Lisle, IL 9-12 June
"Ways of War" - download conference program
2010
Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA, 20-23 May
"Causes Lost and Won" - download conference program
2009
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 2-5 April
"Warfare and Culture" - download conference program
2008
Weber State University, Odgen, UT, 17-20 April
"The Military and Frontiers"
2007
Catoctin Center for Regional Studies at Frederick Community College, 19-22 April
"Crossroads of War" - download conference program
2006
Kansas State University, Manhattan, 18-21 May
"The Construction, Reconstruction, and Consumption of Military History" - download conference program
2005
The Citadel, Charleston, 24-27 February
"Rise of the Military Profession" - download conference program
2004
University of Maryland-College Park, Bethesda, 20-23 May
"What on Our Minds: Critical Problems in Military History" - download conference program
2003
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1-4 May
"The Military and Civil Society"
2002
Madison, WI ­ Monona Terrace Convention Center, 4-7 April
"War and Remembrance: Constructing the Military Past and Future."
2001
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 24-27 May
"Revolution in Military Affairs"
"Societies at War"
"Operational Arts"
2000
Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, 27-30 April 2000
"Korea, 1950 and 400 Years of Unlimited War"
1999
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 15-18 April
"War in History, Myth, and Memory"
1998
Wheaton, Illinois, 23-26 April
"Citizens in Uniform"
1997
Montgomery, Alabama, 10-14 April
"New Interpretations in Military History"
1996
Arlington, Virginia, 18-21 April
"Intelligence and National Security in Peace, Crisis, and War"
1995
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 11-14 May
"War Termination and Transitions to New Eras"
1994
Washington, D.C., 7-10 April
"Military-Civil Relations"
1993
Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 21-24 May
"Allies and Alliances"
1992
Quantico, Virginia, 10-12 April
"Joint, Combined, Amphibious, and Expeditionary Operations"
1991
Durham, North Carolina, 21-24 March
"The New Military History"
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