Samuel Eliot Morison Prize The
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize recognizes not any one specific achievement, but a body of contributions in the field of military history, stretching over time and showing a range of scholarly work contributing significantly to the field. Recent winners include: •
Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University, 2023 •
Beth Bailey, University of Kansas, 2022 •
Robert M. Citino, National WWII Museum, 2021 •
Jon Tetsuro Sumida, University of Maryland, 2020. •
Brian Holden-Reid, King's College London, 2019 •
Hew Strachan, University of St Andrews, 2018 •
John A. Lynn II, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017 • Conrad C. Crane,
Army Heritage and Education Center,
United States Army War College, 2016 •
Joseph T. Glatthaar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015 •
Rick Atkinson, Washington, DC, 2014 •
Ira D. Gruber, Rice University, 2013 •
Ronald H. Spector, The George Washington University, 2012 •
Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, 2011 •
Peter Maslowski, 2010 •
Richard Kohn, 2009 •
Jeremy Black, 2008 •
James M. McPherson, 2007 •
Robert A. Doughty, 2006 •
Dennis Showalter, 2005 •
Allan R. Millett, 2004 •
Edward J. Drea, 2003 •
John Shy, 2002 •
Richard Overy, 2001 •
David M. Glantz, 2000 •
Geoffrey N. Parker, 1999 •
Stephen E. Ambrose, 1998 •
Robert M. Utley, 1997 •
John Keegan, 1996 •
Martin Blumenson, 1995 •
Harold C. Deutsch, 1994 •
Peter Paret, 1993 •
Michael Howard, 1992 •
I. B. Holley, Jr., and
Theodore Ropp, 1991 •
Edward M. Coffman, 1990 •
Russell F. Weigley, 1989 • No Award, 1988 •
Forrest C. Pogue, 1987 •
Alvin D. Coox, 1986 •
Robin Higham, 1985
Distinguished Book Awards The Society's Distinguished Book Awards recognize the best books written in English on military history, broadly conceived.
2022 •
Thomas A. Guglielmo, ''Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military'', Oxford University Press • Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer,
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II, Oxford University Press • Ian Ona Johnson,
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet–German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, Oxford University Press •
Michael S. Nieberg,
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, Harvard University Press •
Ruth Scurr,
Napoleon, A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows, Penguin Random House •
Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and
Sonya O. Rose, editors,
Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600, Oxford University Press.
2021 • Donald F. Johnson,
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution,University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. •
Alexander Mikaberidze,
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, Oxford University Press, 2020. • Daniel Whittingham,
Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare, Cambridge University Press, 2019. • Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed.,
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, Cambridge University Press, 2019. • Meighen McCrae,
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2019. •
Alexander Watson,
The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands, Basic Books, 2020
2020 • Monica Kim,
NYU,
The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Princeton University Press, 2019. • Geoffrey Robinson,
UCLA,
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66, Princeton University Press, 2018. • Stephen Brumwell,
Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty, Yale University Press, 2018. •
Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, and Michael Livingston, The Citadel, eds.,
Medieval Warfare: A Reader, University of Toronto Press, 2019. • Thomas Dodman,
Columbia University,
What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion, University of Chicago Press, 2019.
2019 •
A. Wilson Greene,
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater (Civil War America), University of North Carolina Press, 2018 • Peter Guardino,
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, Harvard University Press, 2018. • Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia,
Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, University of North Carolina Press, 2018. • Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller,
J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, editors,
Environmental Histories of the First World War, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018 • Christopher Phillips,
The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border • Ilya Berkovich,
Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe • Steven L. Ossad,
Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General • Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman,
The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection, (4 vols.)
2017 • Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone,
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle •
Tonio Andrade,
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History • Laila Parsons,
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948 •
Michael Livingston and
Kelly DeVries, editors.
The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook 2016 •
David L. Preston, ''
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution'' •
Pierre Razoux,
The Iran-Iraq War • Paul Robinson,
Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army •
David T. Zabecki, editor.
Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History 2015 •
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy,
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire •
Alexander Watson,
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 •
Michael V. Leggiere,
Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon 2014 • Samuel J. Watson, ''Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810–1821
and Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821–1846'' •
Geoffrey Parker,
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century • George W. Gawrych,
The Young Ataturk: From Ottoman Soldier to Statesman of Turkey •
Spencer C. Tucker, editor,
American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection 2013 • Richard S. Faulkner,
School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces •
Robert M. Citino,
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 •
Geoffrey Roberts,
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov • Clayton R. Newell and Charles R. Shrader,
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War 2012 • John Sloan Brown,
Kevlar Legions: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1989–2005 •
Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and
Hans van de Ven (eds.),
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 •
Mungo Melvin, ''Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General'' • Steven E. Clay,
US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 (4 vols.)
2011 • Chad L. Williams,
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era •
Peter H. Wilson, ''The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy'' • John MacFarlane,
Triquet’s Cross: A Study of Military Heroism •
Clifford J. Rogers, ed.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology 2010 • Daniel E. Sutherland,
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War • Edward J. Drea,
Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945 • J.P. Harris,
Douglas Haig and the First World War •
Spencer C. Tucker, ed.
The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars 2009 • Ingo Trauschweizer,
The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War. • Jamel Ostwald,
Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession. • Andy Wiest, ''Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN.'' • Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, and
Michael Whitby, eds.
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. 2008 •
Jon Latimer,
1812: War with America • John Lawrence Tone,
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898 • Martha Hannah,
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. • Spencer C. Tucker, ed.
The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History 2007 • John Grenier,
The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814. • Robert A. Doughty,
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. • Adrian Goldsworthy,
Caesar: Life of a Colossus. • Peter Karsten, ed.
Encyclopedia of War and American Society. 3 vols.
2006 • H. P. Willmott,
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action • George Satterfield,
Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673–1678) • Steven E. Woodworth and Kenneth J. Winkle,
Atlas of the Civil War • Colin White, ed.,
Horatio Nelson, The New Letters 2005 •
Edward M. Coffman,
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941 •
Robert M. Citino,
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare • James T. Controvich,
United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography 2004 •
George C. Rable,
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! • Terry Copp,
Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy • Joshua Brown, ed.,
A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied • Michael J. Crawford, ed.,
The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History: Volume III 1814–1815 2003 •
Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 •
Hew Strachan,
The First World War. Volume I: To Arms • Stuart Hills,
By Tank Into Normandy: A Memoir of the Campaign in North-West Europe From D-Day to VE Day • David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds.,
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political and Military History (3 vol)
2002 • Mark Stoler,
Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliances, and U.S. Strategy in World War II •
Ronald H. Spector,
At War At Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century •
Robert H. Ferrell, editor, for William S. Triplet,
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, A Colonel in the Armored Divisions, and In the Philippines and Okinawa 2001 •
Geoffrey P. Megargee (2000): ''Inside Hitler's High Command'' (2000) ==See also==