Army Historical Foundation

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Army Historical Foundation is the designated fundraising institution for the National Museum of the United States Army. The foundation also has given out awards to authors of books on military history topics since 1997. The awards are known as the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards.

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards[]

The Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards are given out to books on Army history as well as to authors of journal articles.[1][2][3][4][5]

2020 Awards[]

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Category Title Authors Publisher
Biography Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and the U.S. Military, 1812-1863 Harwood P. Hinton and Jerry Thompson University of Oklahoma Press
Operational/Battle History The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines: Counterinsurgency, Pacification, and Collaboration, 1899-1901 John Scott Reed University Press of Kansas
Institutional/Functional History Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and Moving Armies Earl J. Hess
Journals, Memoirs, and Letters Rangers Led the Way: WWII Army Rangers in Their Own Words Chris Ketcherside and George Despotis, MD Schiffer Military
Unit History To the Last Man: National Guard Regiment in the Great War, 1917-1919 Jonathan D. Bratten Army University Press
Reference and Compilation Civil War Flags of Tennessee Stephen D. Cox University of Tennessee Press
Academic Journals “‘Our Army will hut this Winter at Valley Forge’: George Washington, Decision Making, and the Councils of War” Ricardo A. Herrera Army History, Fall 2020
Journals and Magazines “‘Ernie Was One of Us’” Ray Morris Jr. MHQ–The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Autumn 2020.

2019 Awards[]

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Category Title Authors Publisher
Biography Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps Michael E. Lynch University Press of Kentucky[8][9]
Operational/Battle History Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Donald L. Miller Simon and

Schuster

Institutional/Functional History Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 Seanegan P.

Sculley || Westholme Publishing

Journals, Memoirs, and Letters Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice William Morrow
Unit History The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859-1865 John Horn Savas Beatie
Reference and Compilation World War II Infographics Jean Lopez, Nicholas Aubin, Vincent Bernard, and Nicolas Guillerat Thames & Hudson
Academic Journals “The Deadliest Enemy: The U.S. Army and Influenza, 1918-1919,” Kathleen M. Fargey Army

History, Spring 2019

Journals and Magazines “Black Soldiers Fought Segregation, Germans,” Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger, U.S. Army retired Army, December 2019

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Awards Announced for Excellence in U.S. Army History Writing – The Campaign for the National Museum of the United States Army".
  2. ^ "AUSA Book Author Wins Distinguished Writing Award". AUSA. August 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Recent News".
  4. ^ Commentary & Reply https://www.proquest.com/openview/9c1532692547e5e31795cf9bdd0ca5b1/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=32439
  5. ^ Yockelson, Mitchell. "General John J. Pershing and His Quest to Form the American First Army." On Point 23, no. 1 (2017): 36-43. Accessed July 12, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26295931
  6. ^ Seelinger, Matthew. "2020 AHF Writing Awards". STLtoday.com.
  7. ^ https://www.smh-hq.org/docs/HQG/GazetteSU20.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ Hill, Lauren (June 22, 2020). "Alumnus Dr. Michael Lynch wins award for US Army history writing".
  9. ^ "University Press of Kentucky Receives Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award". UKNow. June 18, 2020.
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