Society for Military History

The Society typically holds a meeting in the first half of every year.

Recent meetings have been held in the following locations:[2]

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]

• Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University, 2023
• Beth Bailey, University of Kansas, 2022
• Robert M. Citino, National WWII Museum, 2021
• Jon Tetsuro Sumida, University of Maryland, 2020.
• Brian Holden-Reid, King's College London, 2019
• Hew Strachan, University of St Andrews, 2018
• John A. Lynn II, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
• Conrad C. Crane, Army Heritage and Education Center, United States Army War College, 2016
• Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015
• Rick Atkinson, Washington, DC, 2014
• Ira D. Gruber, Rice University, 2013
• Ronald H. Spector, The George Washington University, 2012
• Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, 2011
• Peter Maslowski, 2010
• Richard Kohn, 2009
• Jeremy Black, 2008
• James M. McPherson, 2007
• Robert A. Doughty, 2006
• Dennis Showalter, 2005
• Allan R. Millett, 2004
• Edward J. Drea, 2003
• John Shy, 2002
• Richard Overy, 2001
• David M. Glantz, 2000
• Geoffrey N. Parker, 1999
• Stephen E. Ambrose, 1998
• Robert M. Utley, 1997
• John Keegan, 1996
• Martin Blumenson, 1995
• Harold C. Deutsch, 1994
• Peter Paret, 1993
• Michael Howard, 1992
• I. B. Holley, Jr., and Theodore Ropp, 1991
• Edward M. Coffman, 1990
• Russell F. Weigley, 1989
• No Award, 1988
• Forrest C. Pogue, 1987
• Alvin D. Coox, 1986
• Robin Higham, 1985

The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.[5]

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.)

• 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
• Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, editors. The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook

• David L. Preston, Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
• Pierre Razoux, The Iran-Iraq War
• Paul Robinson, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army
• David T. Zabecki, editor. Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History

• Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
• Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918
• Michael V. Leggiere, Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon

• 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

• 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
• Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov
• Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader, Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War

• John Sloan Brown, Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989–2005
• Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven (eds.), The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945
• Mungo Melvin, Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
• Steven E. Clay, US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 (4 vols.)

• Chad L. Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
• Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
• John MacFarlane, Triquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism
• Clifford J. Rogers, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

• 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

• 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, eds. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941
• Robert M. Citino, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
• James T. Controvich, United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography

• 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

• Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
• 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)

• 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

• Geoffrey P. Megargee (2000): Inside Hitler's High Command (2000)[6]