1991 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 1991.
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
For a body of contributions to military history over a career.
I. B. Holley, Jr., and Theodore Ropp
Distinguished Book Awards
The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.
Bettie J. Morden
The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978
Benjamin Isaac
Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
"They Either Need These Women or They Do Not": Margaret Chase Smith and the Fight for Regular Status for Women in the Military · The Journal of Military History Vol. 54, No. 1, January 1990
War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological Determinism in Military History · The Journal of Military History Vol. 54, No. 4, October 1990
George Owen Squier and the Origins of American Military Aviation · The Journal of Military History Vol. 54, No. 3, July 1990
William B Skelton
Social Roots of the American Military Profession: The Officer Corps of America's First Peacetime Army, 1784-1789 · The Journal of Military History Vol. 54, No. 4, October 1990
In the Journal: William B. Skelton
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.