2024 awards and prizes

Recipients of the Society's awards, prizes and grants presented in 2024.

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

For a body of contributions to military history over a career.

Distinguished Book Awards

The best book-length publications in English on military history, in four categories.

  • American Military HistoryBeth Bailey

    An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023

  • Non-American Military HistoryRory Cox

    Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East · Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023

  • First BookRebecca Schwartz Greene

    Breaking Point: The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II · New York: Fordham University Press, 2023

  • Biography and MemoirLyle Jeremy Rubin

    Pain is Weakness: A Marine’s Unbecoming · New York: Bold Type Books, 2022

  • Trade PressRachel Chrastil

    Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe · New York: Basic Books, 2023

The Vandervort Prizes

Outstanding journal articles in military history, in the Journal and beyond it.

Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Prize

The best dissertation in military history, defended in the previous calendar year.

  • Jonathan Carroll

    God's Work in Hell: Nation-building and Counterinsurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995

Allan R. Millett Dissertation Research Grant

Research funding for a doctoral dissertation in any field of military history.

  • Joseph Bienko, Penn State

    Warfare and the Environment in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World and Caribbean

Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grants

Travel support for graduate students presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Elizabeth Gardner, King’s College, London

    Revisiting Indigenous Contributions: The Libyan Arab Force

  • Holly Harris, Southern Methodist University

    The Song of Stalag 1A: Music, Remembrance, and Cultural Memory of French Prisoners of War 1941-1945

  • Sarafina Pagnotta, Carleton University, Ottawa

    From ’Somewhere in France’ to Somewhere in the Collections: Recovering Soldier Art at the Canadian War Museum

  • Thomas Stephens, Indiana University, Bloomington

    ’I Ain’t No Fighting Bloke’: Gender and Regimental Culture in the British Army Service Corps, 1914-1918

    In the Journal: Thomas P. Stephens

  • Danielle Wirsansky, Florida State University

    ’Women do not make good spies’: A Gendered Analysis of the Recruitment of Spies for the Special Operations Executive’s F Section During WWII

  • James Witkoski, University of Southern Mississippi

    William Westmoreland and Press Tour of November 1967: Talking Points Versus the Reality of the Vietnam War

Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant

Travel support for a graduate student from outside North America presenting at the annual meeting.

  • Patrick Y. Whang, University of Cape Town

    Operation Boleas: Reflecting Back Upon Twenty-five Years

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.