Opportunities
2027 Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize: submissions due October 17
The Abraham Lincoln Institute and the Abraham Lincoln Association invite dissertations completed between 2024 and 2026 on Lincoln and his legacy for a $1,000 prize. Submissions are due by 5:00 PM EST on October 17, 2026.
Nominations open for the E. James Morton Award for Civil War cartography
A new annual award from the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College honors original maps in narrative Civil War books, with $1,000 each to the author and the cartographer. Submissions for books published in 2026 close February 28, 2027.
RAF Museum Academic Awards 2026: applications close October 23
The Royal Air Force Museum again offers a PhD bursary of £3,000, a Masters prize of £350 and an undergraduate prize of £250 for research that furthers the Museum's knowledge. Applications close Friday, October 23, 2026.
Book and journal collection for sale: 4,500 volumes and a near-complete run of the Journal
A member is selling 4,500 books and magazines, mostly on the Cold War USAF and the twentieth-century Army and Navy, together with every issue but three of The Journal of Military History from 1994 to 2020 and the 1936-1994 cumulative index.
Vietnam War stills and film from an Army photographer, free to historians
Chris Jensen, an Army photographer with the 221st Signal Company in 1970 and 1971, offers his high-resolution scans and digitized 16 mm film of the Cambodian incursion, Fire Support Base Ripcord and Lam Son 719 to historians without charge, for a photo credit.
2026-27 Cold War Essay Contest at VMI's Adams Center
VMI's John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis awards $2,000, $1,000 and $500 for the best unpublished papers on Cold War military history by rising scholars. The first-prize essay appears in The Journal of Military History. Due December 4, 2026.
The Bunker Hill Society invites descendants of the Patriot cause
A lineage society for those descended from men and women who served the Patriot cause at the time of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston.
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