General Omar N. Bradley Awards in Military History
Each year, the General Omar N. Bradley Foundation normally provides research awards of $2,000 to up to ten U.S. Army officers engaged in research related to military history.
News
Announcements, statements and updates from the Society.
Remembering Craig Symonds, and his 2023 keynote address
The military history community lost one of the giants of the field with the passing of Craig Symonds on October 13th. His keynote address to the 2023 Annual Meeting in San Diego, on the "old" and the "new" military history, is here in full.
Notes from the President, Fall 2026
Wayne Lee looks ahead to New Orleans in March, asks members to vote in the coming trustee and officer elections, and announces a complete remaking of the Society's web presence, records and public face.
A fond farewell
After running the Society's website since 1998 and editing the Headquarters Gazette since 2000, Kurt Hackemer is stepping away as the Society remakes its public presence.
Travel grants for graduate students presenting at SMH 2027
Applications are open for the Russell F. Weigley and Jeffrey Grey Memorial travel grants, which support graduate students presenting a paper or joining a roundtable at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Deadline January 4, 2027.
SMH 2027 conference updates
Book your room at the Sheraton New Orleans before the February 15 cutoff, read the tentative agenda and exhibitor information, and watch for registration to open in late November.
Research fellowship at the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
The Foundation will host one or two research fellows at its library in New Market, Virginia, with $1,250 per one-week session for travel and expenses. Open to graduate students, academics, teachers, museum professionals and independent scholars. Apply by December 1, 2026.
Call for papers: RAF Museum Lecture Series 2027-28
The Royal Air Force Museum seeks lecture and panel proposals from postgraduate students and researchers on how air forces have evolved since the late twentieth century. Abstracts of up to 300 words by January 22, 2027.
Call for papers: Mercenaries Through the Ages
The Many Faces of War XII, a hybrid interdisciplinary conference in Sioux Falls on March 3 to 5, 2027, invites papers on mercenaries in every period, and on any aspect of military history. Abstracts of 300 words before December 1, 2026.
Call for papers: Military History Consortium conference, Stellenbosch, June 2027
The Military History Consortium's fourth annual conference, at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study on June 16 to 18, 2027, invites panels and papers on any aspect of military history from antiquity to the present. Submissions by November 30, 2026.
