2005 awards and prizes
Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2005.
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize
For a body of contributions to military history over a career.
Dennis Showalter
In the Journal: Dennis E. Showalter
Distinguished Book Awards
The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
James T. Controvich
United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography
The Vandervort Prizes
Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.
Roger V. Dingman
Language at War: U.S. Marine Corps Japanese Language Officers in the Pacific War · The Journal of Military History Vol. 68, No. 3, July 2004
In the Journal: Roger Dingman
Robert S. Burrell
Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment · The Journal of Military History Vol. 68, No. 4, October 2004
In the Journal: Robert S Burrell
Field Officer Courts and U.S. Civil War Military Justice · The Journal of Military History Vol. 68, No. 1, January 2004
G. J. Bryant
Asymmetric Warfare: The British Experience in Eighteenth-Century India · The Journal of Military History Vol. 68, No. 2, April 2004
In the Journal: G. J Bryant
Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants
Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.
Robert C. Blackstone, University of Kansas
John D. Hosler, University of Delaware
Kevin Levin, University of Richmond
John Maass, Ohio State University
In the Journal: John R. Maass
Matthew S. Muehlbauer, Temple University
R. Boyd Murphree, Florida State University
Edwin H. Simmons Award
For long, distinguished or particularly outstanding service to the Society.
George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History
An annual lecture at the American Historical Association meeting, printed in the Journal.
After Hiroshima: Allied Military Occupations and the Fate of Japan's Asian Empire, 1945-1947
American Historical Association annual meeting