Prize-Winning Articles from the Journal of Military History
The Journal’s standing as the leading publication of its kind is regularly reinforced by the articles published in its pages that go on to win prizes elsewhere. We offer the following examples from a list that is sure to grow:
- Kevin Weddle, “‘The Fall of Satan's Kingdom': Civil-Military Relations and the Union Navy's Attack on Charleston, April 1863," Journal of Military History (April 2011) won a US Army War College John J. Madigan Award for best faculty publication.
- Kerry Irish, “Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines: There Must Be a Day of Reckoning,” Journal of Military History (October 2010)received the Army Historical Foundation’s prize for the best article on the U.S. Army to appear in a journal or magazine in 2010.
- Brian F. Neumann, “A Question of Authority: Reassessing the March-Pershing ‘Feud’ in the First World War,” Journal of Military History (October 2009) received the Army Historical Foundation’s prize for the best article on the U.S. Army to appear in a journal or magazine in 2009.
- Timothy S. Wolters, “Electric Torpedoes in the Confederacy: Reconciling Conflicting Histories,” Journal of Military History (July 2008) received the Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval History awarded by the Naval History and Heritage Command and the Naval Historical Foundation.
- Andrew J. Birtle, “PROVN, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal,” Journal of Military History (October 2008) received the Army Historical Foundation’s prize for the best article on the U.S. Army to appear in a journal or magazine in 2008.
- Lorraine White, “Strategic Geography and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy’s Failure to Recover Portugal, 1640-1668,” Journal of Military History (April 2007 received the Oliveira Marques Prize Award for the best article on Portuguese history published in 2007.
