Announcements and Events
The National WWII Museum Faculty Seminar in World War II History
A Program of the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy
The National WWII Museum invites applications for its Faculty Seminar in World War II History to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 21-27, 2026. This weeklong intensive program is designed for college-level instructors or professors who desire a stronger historical background in the American experience in World War II. We encourage applicants from under-resourced, regional, and smaller universities, as well as the faculty at Minority Served Institutions (MSIs) and Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs). In addition, the program is open to Professional Military Education (PME) and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) instructors.
This program is crafted for faculty whose academic expertise falls outside WWII history but who regularly teach and/or research the WWII era. This seminar is intended to develop the knowledge and understanding of the American experience of World War II for active college and university faculty who wish to teach, advocate for, or design history courses and content regarding this significant conflict.
The program consists of a series of content and pedagogical seminars led by the Museum’s expert faculty covering the war’s major themes, campaigns, outcomes, and legacies. Lodging for six nights, select meals, and course materials are provided. Travel costs to and from New Orleans are the responsibility of the attendee or their institution.
If you are unable to obtain financial assistance from your institution and would desire consideration for a travel grant, limited funds may be available on a case-by-case basis. Further information on such requests will be made available upon invitation to the program.
Applicants will be selected based upon their potential contributions to the teaching of WWII history and the impact they can make at their institutions. A selection committee will consider each applicant’s packet on its own merits.
Those interested are to submit their applications through the link below:
Call for Applications Faculty Seminar in WWII History | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
The deadline for applications is January 10, 2026, at 11:59 PM (CST).
All applicants will be informed of their status by February 16, 2026.
Interested applicants should submit:
1. A completed application form
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. One letter of recommendation from a chair or colleague that addresses the applicant’s teaching abilities and skills
Any questions should be directed to taylor.lindner@nationalww2museum.org for more information.
PAPER PRIZE
CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History
The Society for Military History and the CSIS Project on Military and Diplomatic History are pleased to announce the CSIS Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best essay of 5,000 to 8,000 words that uses military history to inform current international security problems. Contestants are permitted use any historical period, place, or persons to offer insights into current international security issues. The competition is open to graduate students studying military history, including those pursuing a second degree. Active-duty or civilian students enrolled in a degree-granting PME institution are also encouraged to submit (subject to the limitations of classification and school regulations), but please observe the word limits.
The prize will be awarded at the Society’s awards luncheon. The awardee will receive $1,000, and will be reimbursed for up to $1,000 in travel expenses to attend the Annual Meeting.
Essays should be submitted in electronic form to Eliot Cohen at Ecohen@csis.org. The application deadline is February 9, 2026, and the winner will be announced by early March.
PRIZE OPPORTUNITY
ICMH André Corvisier Prize for Ph.D. Theses in Military History: X Edition – 2026
- The International Commission of Military History (http://www.icmh-cihm.org/en/) awards the “André Corvisier Prize for Ph.D. theses in Military History”, named after the distinguished French scholar who served for ten years as President and later as President of Honour of ICMH.
- Candidates must be under 40 years of age at the date of 30 June 2026. The Ph.D. degree can be awarded in any academic discipline and is not restricted to Military History only. However, the thesis must deal with Military History in the broadest sense: the history of warfare, military campaigns, the armed forces, military thought and philosophy, diplomatic aspects of conflicts, causes and effects of wars, defence economics, civil-military relations, military technology, military leadership, and demographics of military forces. To be eligible, applicants must come from a country where there is an ICMH National Commission or, if there isn’t one, they must apply and be accepted as ICMH Individual Affiliate Scholars.
- For the 2026 edition, the prize will be awarded for a Ph.D. thesis approved in 2025 at a recognized university. The amount of the Prize is fixed at € 3,000 plus a maximum of €1,500 to cover the recipient’s expenses for participation to the award ceremony during the LI ICMH Congress in Foz do Iguaçu - Paraná, Brazil, 22-30 August 2026.
- Candidates must send a scanned certificate of their Ph.D. degree, a curriculum vitae and a PdFcopy of their thesis to ICMH Secretary General, Dr. Efpraxia Paschalidou (e.paschalidou@hndgs.mil.gr) before 15th February 2026.
- The thesis may be in any language; however, a translation in any of the ICMH official languages (English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) is required if the language employed is different. This applies also to the scanned certification of the Ph.D. title and to the curriculum vitae.
- The Prize will be awarded by a Jury of seven persons, chaired by the ICMH President and including the members of the ICMH Executive Board and the President and the Secretary of the ICMH Educational Committee. With the approval of the ICMH President, members of the Jury unable to participate may designate a substitute. The Jury may decide not to award the Prize if no thesis is considered worthy or may decide to award it ex aequo to two doctors, dividing the amount of money. The Jury’s decisions are taken by simple majority; in case of parity of votes the President’s vote determines the decision.
- The winner will be required to write an article drawn from his thesis to be published in the International Journal of Military History and Historiography, after peer review.
- Requests for any further information should be addressed to Dr. Paschalidou.
AI TRANSCRIPTION GRANTS
Leo is a document management and transcription platform designed for historians, archivists, and family researchers by a fellow historian. It uses cutting-edge AI to transform manuscript images into accurate, searchable plain text.
Leo invites applications for the Leo Transcription Grant, which offers up to 100,000 free credits, sufficient to transcribe as many as 200,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts. The grant is open to students, academics, and institutions. The only condition of the award is that grantees publish the images and transcriptions online free of restriction and copyright. Further information and the application form are available at https://blog.tryleo.ai/2025/09/05/leo-transcription-grant-2025/.
NEW ARCHIVAL RESOURCE
Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Opens Large Agent Orange Collection
Public perceptions about the Vietnam War remain filled with many myths, conspiracies, and misunderstandings, and the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War has had a lasting impact on Vietnam and on veterans. The Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation served as a widescale attempt by both plaintiffs and defendants to find answers such as whether the government and/or chemical companies were aware of Agent Orange’s toxicity before using it and who would be liable for damages caused by Agent Orange. This landmark class action suit (1979-1984) brought together many of the individual suits filed by Vietnam veterans against these chemical companies claiming that their product caused numerous health issues for themselves and their children.
The Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation Collection, housed at the Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, contains 550 linear feet of scientific studies, trial records, military documents about Agent Orange use, copies of case law relevant to the class action suit, and over 200 linear feet of deposition transcripts and exhibits from government officials, chemical company employees, representative plaintiffs and relevant expert witnesses who discuss a wide range of Agent Orange and dioxin related topics.
By processing and making this collection available for research, the Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive is providing previously unavailable information and insight into one of the most controversial programs during the war – the use of chemical defoliants – and the long-term impact of their use on human health and the environment. This collection appeals to a wide range of audiences including veterans, legal scholars, scientists, medical professionals, historians, and students. Given the ongoing public and academic interest in the Vietnam War, it is very exciting to provide everyone with access to a new set of documents that can help shed light on such a controversial and impactful topic.
To learn more about the materials, which were processed through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, click on the link to view the collection’s finding aid.
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=26520000000
These materials are not available online and can only be viewed in person in our reading room on the Texas Tech University campus, or you can order photocopies through our reference service if you cannot visit. If you would like to access these materials, email us at vnca@ttu.edu for help planning your visit or to request copies.
SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY
10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION
CHARLES A. and LOYOLA M. MURPHY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE STUDY OF MILITARY HISTORY
The 10th Mountain Division Foundation, Inc. (the Foundation) has established the Charles A. and Loyola M. Murphy Endowed Scholarship for the Study of Military History to promote development of a broad understanding of military mountaineering or skiing history and contributions of the WWII Mountain Troopers within the American national experience. This historical knowledge can be an invaluable tool for the decision-making process in many professional fields.
WHAT: This scholarship provides a maximum of one $5,000 cash award annually to one selected doctoral candidate or graduate level student with high academic qualifications who is beginning or currently pursuing post graduate study in military history, U.S. history, international relations, or a related field. The focus of study must directly relate to the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and affiliated units, from 1941 through the current active-duty actions, or to the post WWII contributions of these soldiers. The award will help pay for expenses related to the costs of education, research, travel, and the purchase of books or other educational materials, as administered by the academic institution within the limits of applicable law and program limitations.
WHO: This scholarship is available for post graduate level scholars (Masters, Specialist or Doctoral level) having been accepted to or currently attending accredited universities or colleges in the United States, or solely at the discretion of the Foundation, distinguished universities or colleges abroad. No historical or biological ties to any previous or current 10th Mountain Division soldier are required.
HOW: Students desiring to compete for the Charles A. and Loyola M. Murphy Endowed Scholarship for the Study of Military History to be awarded for study beginning in the coming fall, should submit a letter of application to the Foundation at the address noted on the application packet.
APPLICATION: Applications must be received no later than July 15th and include the following information:
- Completed application form.
- University presently attending or to which application has been made and the current status of that application (acceptance into an accredited program is a condition of any award).
- Copy of student’s personal and academic biography in your own words (limit to one printed page at 10 point font, please).
- A statement from the applicant that includes an outline of that proposed education program, the degree objective, major of study, and proposed thesis, dissertation or capstone project topic. (Include the degree to be earned, department or college, etc.)
- A copy of all official college/university undergraduate and post-graduate transcripts.
- A statement not to exceed 1000 words concerning the relationship of the Tenth Mountain Division History Scholarship to the applicant's field of study and the value to be derived both by the individual and the general public.
- Upon acceptance into an accredited program, it is required that the thesis advisor, department chair or dissertation committee chair contact information be added to this packet.
- Relevance of the chosen area of study to contributions by the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division.
- Academic ability including baccalaureate record.
- Viability of a publishable final paper, dissertation, thesis or capstone project on the impact of the 10th Mountain Division soldiers on the field of study. Publication of a final paper is not a requirement for this scholarship, but it is expressly stated that a courtesy copy of any relevant final paper, dissertation, thesis or capstone project will be provided to the Foundation to be placed on file with the Tenth Mountain Division Resource Center in Denver, Colorado for reference by future generations. All publication rights will remain with the scholar.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD: The total award is $5000. The award will be disbursed directly to the selected scholar. Documentation or receipts indicating proper use of the monies is requested for submission to the Foundation.
It is the earnest belief of the Tenth Mountain Division Foundation, Inc. that this scholarly study will help perpetuate the legacy of these soldiers and will enhance the love of the mountains that their service has inspired. We ask that you share what you have learned and help future generations “Climb to Glory”.
