Dear History Graduate Students,
Dr. Meredith Lair asked me to forward this to you.
Best,
Mack Holt
>Cold War Prize Competition
>
>2008-2009
>
>
>For the fifth year, the John A. Adams Center at the Virginia
>Military Institute is pleased to announce that it will award prizes
>for the best unpublished papers dealing with the United States
>military in the Cold War era (1945-1991). Any aspect of the Cold
>War is eligible, with papers on war planning, intelligence,
>logistics, and mobilization especially welcome. Please note that
>essays which relate aspects of the Korean and Southeast Asian
>conflicts to the larger Cold War are also open for consideration.
>
>Not only do we welcome your submission of previously unpublished
>pieces, but we encourage you to pass along this notice to any
>colleagues or promising graduate students who might be working in
>this area.
>
>Prizes: First place will earn a plaque and a cash award of $2000;
>second place, $1000 and a plaque; and third place, $500 and a plaque.
>
>Procedures: Entries should be tendered to the Adams Center at VMI
>by 15 June 2009. Please make your submission by Microsoft Word and
>limit your entry to a maximum of twenty-five pages of double-spaced
>text, exclusive of documentation and bibliography. A panel of
>judges will, over the summer, examine all papers and the Adams
>Center will announce its top three rankings early in the fall of
>2009. The Journal of Military History will be happy to consider
>those award winners for publication.
>
>Submissions and questions:
>Professor Malcolm Muir, Jr., Director
>John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis
>Department of History
>Virginia Military Institute; Lexington, VA 24450
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>540-464-7447/7338
>Fax: 540-464-7246
>
>
>2007-08 Cold War essay contest
> sponsored by the
>John A. Adams '71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis
>
>First prize: $2000
> "The Genesis of the Sixth Fleet: The U.S. Navy and Early Cold War
>Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean, 1946 - 1948"
>by Michael A. Palmer, East Carolina University
>
>Second prize: $1000
>"In a Foreign Land: GIs, West Germans, and Refugees in Franconia,
>1945 - 1960"
>by Adam Seipp, Texas A & M University
>
>Third prize: $500
>"The Atomic Air Offensive and the Change in American Military
>Tradition, 1945 - 1950"
>by John M. Curatola, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
>
>Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)
>
>"The Quiet Death of Universal Military Training: How America Lost
>an Opportunity to Close the Civil-Military Gap"
>by Robert K. Dean, Norwich University
>
>"Lessons of the Korean War and the Public Debate over Containment
>and American National Military Strategy, 1950 - 1955"
>by Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford Community College
>
>"Detachment Number 1: African-American Prisoners at Camp 5 during
>the Korean Conflict"
>by Thomas J. Ward, Jr., Spring Hill College
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Mack P. Holt
Professor of History
Director of Graduate Studies
George Mason University
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