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. It publishes the quarterly journal On Point.[1]
The Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards are given out to books on Army history as well as to authors of journal articles.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
| 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. |
| 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[9] [10] | |
| Operational/Battle History | Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy | Donald L. Miller | Simon andSchuster | |
| 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 | ArmyHistory, Spring 2019 | |
| Journals and Magazines | “Black Soldiers Fought Segregation, Germans,” | Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger, U.S. Army retired | Army, December 2019 |