Preface
In 2007 the Society for Military History and Richard L.D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections of the Kansas State University Libraries entered into an agreement to collect, organize, preserve, and make available for scholarly research the records of the organization. It is an honor for the Department of Special Collections to serve as the official repository for the SMH records, an organization established in 1933 to advance the study of military history. Its more than 2300 members include many of the nation's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens involved in the field.
This descriptive guide to the records represents the completion of the processing of the material transferred to University Archives and Manuscripts as of December 31, 2008.
Military history is designated as a major collecting area of the Morse Department of Special Collections. This is primarily due to the Department of History's internationally recognized military history program that offers both the masters and doctorial degree in the discipline. Collections, such as the SMH Records, are acquired to support this program and scholarly research.
There are a number of individuals responsible for designating K-State as the location for the SMH records: the board and officers of the SMH, including Dr. Robert Berlin who first approached Kansas State University with this possibility; Dr. Mark Parillo, director of the Institute for Military History, Department of History, Kansas State University, who connected the SMH with the University Archives and Manuscripts at K-State, and encouraged the partnership; Anthony R. Crawford of the Department of Special Collections who coordinated the agreement between the participants and the transfer of records to K-State, and Lori Goetsch, Dean of Libraries for her support of the agreement.
The processing of the SMH records and the creation of this finding aid were made possible through the financial support of the Society. This funding enabled Special Collections to employ Paul Thomsen, a graduate student in the military history program at K-State, to process the records that were shipped to Manhattan. We are grateful to the Institute for Military History and Dr. Parillo for providing additional funds to support the completion of the project.
The SMH Records described herein are open and available to students, faculty, scholars, independent researchers, and, of course, to the members of the SMH. Individuals interested in the records are encouraged to contact the University Archives and Manuscripts, Morse Department of Special Collections, Hale Library, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 (785-532-7456 or ).
Associate Professor
University Archivist/Curator of Manuscripts
Introduction
In 2007, Kansas State University Richard L. D. and Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections at Hale Library, Kansas State University, became the official repository for the historical records of the Society for Military History (SMH). Since the Depression Era founding of the organization's first incarnation as the American Military History Foundation (AMHF) in June, 1933, the records were cared for by a series of archives, including the Department of the Army's history and publications offices, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, Carlyle Barracks, and the National Defense University and individual members, including Robert Berlin and Harold Langley, before finally finding a permanent home at Kansas State University.
These documents span nearly a century of service to the study of military history from post-First World War army historical interest to twenty-first century scholarship. The records arranged to reflect the daily use of the collection as an administrative resource for the SMH, are now organized in the following series: 1) Historic Papers, 2) Administrative Records, 3) AMI Subject Files 4) Journal Publishing Records, 5) Financial Records, 6) Print Material, and 7) Photographs.
Whereas most organizations retain their records to provide a sense of institutional memory and legal support, the SMH Records also provides a broad, wide, and deep perspective on the study of history. These documents and graphics serve both as an administrative organizational record of events and as a means for scholars and students to understand the shifting tides of historic events, military historiographers, and the discipline of history, itself, in both a thematic and personal way. For example, the records indicate that AMHF was created by the efforts of Washington, D.C area archivists and army personnel as an ad hoc civilian think-tank, supplementing the Depression Era research of the Historical Section of the United States Army with outside resources, documents, ideas, and a structured openness to discussions. Consequently, the collection holds several publishable papers and conference material, which pertain to the ways different nations conducted wars prior to the First World War. Simultaneously, this organizational direction also led to the creation of both a traveling library (named the Lull Library after a founder and early president) and the archived records from which this collection grew. While the library component of the organization was eventually absorbed by Carlyle Barracks and the United States Army Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the documents and photographs of several presidents were retained by the organization and continued to be cared for by individual officers until a suitable venue could be found at Kansas State University.
This collection's true strength, however, is derived from the organization's defining activities in the Second World War and Cold War. By 1937, early journal records indicate that interest in AMHF activities and articles published in Army Ordinance prompted the creation of The Journal of the American Military History Foundation. Similarly, the administrative records of the organization during the Second World War will provide scholars access to material on public lectures to supplement current events issues, including lectures on the "Total Science of War" and "The Atomic Bomb and Its Implications" (which discussed the military application of atomic weaponry with General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project). Other sections of the collection, most notably the meeting minutes of officers and the Boards of Trustees, also illustrate the absorption of the Order of the Indian Wars members by the renamed American Military Institute (AMI) and the assistance of the American Historical Society (AHA) as significant roles in keeping the organization functional in the lean postwar years. Likewise, the officer-level papers reveal the influence of key members in advancing the goals and functions of the group over several generations, including Dallas Irvine, Milton Skelly, Hilario Moncado, William Foot, Victor Gondos, Dwight Eisenhower, Trevor Dupuy, B. F. Cooling, Edward Coffman, Robin Higham, Russell Weigley, Dennis Showalter, Alan Millett, Harold Langley, Tim Nenninger, and Robert Berlin. Finally, the secretary level files detail how the AMI was able to weather periodic economic and publishing crises plaguing the organization as well as their emergence as an internationally renowned institution of learned scholarship affiliated with the Organization of American Historians (OAH), Civil War Roundtable, and the George C. Marshall Foundation.
Similarly, the documents covering the organization's most recent incarnation, the Society for Military History, also provides readers with ample examples of the organization's breadth and depth of reach over the past two decades. Presidential correspondence, treasurer reports, and secretary files stress the rapid development of regional and local chapters beyond the Atlantic Coast. Other sections serve as a model for the mechanics of conference planning and publication. Researchers interested in business history and publishing will find the editor's daily correspondence particularly valuable, detailing the journal's on-going relationship with printers, advertisers, readers, reviewers, and prospective contributors. Another section of the collection, for example, relates Donald Bittner's focus on the planning, preparation, and execution of the 1996 Annual Conference as well as the subsequent development of select conference papers for publication in Marine Corps University's Perspectives on Warfighting. Still other areas of the collection related to the journal showcase the different stages in the development of the flagship publication from the Department of the Army to an all-volunteer civilian Washington staff to Robin Higham's tenure as journal editor at Kansas State University and, most recently, the Virginia Military Institute.
A preliminary arrangement of the collection was made by the SMH Librarian Harold Langely. Paul A. Thomsen, the SMH Archives Assistant, processed the collection and prepared this finding aid. The collection was assigned Accession Number P2008.03
Through the cooperation of the Society of Military History's officers and board, and the Institute for Military History and Twentieth Century Studies and Morse Department of Special Collections at K-State, the SMH records are now permanently housed at K-State and open for scholarly research. The arrangement and description of the records have been made possible through significant funding from the SMH, as well as financial assistance from the Institute for Military History.
Archives Assistant
Morse Department of Special Collections
Chronology
1933 June 1: The American Military History Foundation (AMHF) is established
in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
1935 Army Ordinance runs three AMHF articles.
1935 Dec., AMHF holds a joint session with the American Historical Association
(AHA) in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1937 April 01, The Journal of the American Military History Foundation begins
publication.
1938 The Order of the Indian Wars (OIW) grants AMHF access to OIW
membership lists, but also requires the organization to both publish
thirty-two pages of Indian War-related material annually and to sit one
member of OIW on the Board of Trustees.
1939 The American Military History Foundation is officially renamed the
American Military Institute (AMI). The Journal of the American Military
History Foundation is renamed The Journal of the American Military
Institute.
1941 The Journal of the American Military Institute is renamed Military Affairs
(MA).
1941 AMI sponsors a "seminar-conference" on "The Total Science of War",
revolving around issues concerning the preceding two years of European
warfare.
1943 MA receives a query from the Soviet Information Bureau, asking if it would
accept submissions on Soviet military history.
1945 "The Atomic Bomb and Its Implications," an AMI lecture and panel
discussion is given at the National Archives; panelists included General
Leslie Groves.
1946 Lt. General J. Lawton Collins, a World War II VII Corp Commander,
presents a lecture on "The Battle for Cherbourg" to AMI members.
1948 OIW formally merges with AMHF/AMI.
1948 Hilario Moncado contributes a revolving book fund of $5,000 to the
organization, which would bear his name, for the purpose of publishing a
series of significant military books through the AMI. The Book Award is
later changed to a journal-based criteria, awarding authors of the four best
articles published during the year in the organization's journal, Military
Affairs, $200.
1948 Military Affairs is run by paid editors through the Office of the Chief of
Military History (Major Robert De T. Lawrence and Captain William Ross).
After one year, the operation is ordered discontinued from DoD operations
by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson.
1949 Without an editor, Military Affairs goes on a one-year hiatus.
1950 November 3, An emergency meeting of members is called in the Pentagon
auditorium. When Colonel Milton Skelly agrees to serve as the new interim
editor, Military Affairs resumes publication, simultaneously printing the lost
year and concurrent issues.
1956 The AMI and AHA hold a joint conference discussing "The Teaching of
Military History: Pro and Con," held in St. Louis, Missouri.
1957 AMI and MA nears collapse due to a lack of office space, an all-volunteer
staff, lack of time, quality and manpower to produce a "superlative" journal,
and sorely limited membership.
1959 A temporary office for AMI is set up in a corner of the Army Library at the
Pentagon.
1968 Kansas State University begins publishing Military Affairs, edited by Robin
Higham.
1971 AMI holds three joint conferences with other scholarly bodies to increase
participation by members outside the Washington, D.C. area, including the
Southern Historical Association at Houston.
1973 AMI is represented at the International Commission of Military History in
Stockholm, Sweden.
1975 AMI is represented at the International Congress of Historical Sciences in
San Francisco.
1984 AMI creates the position of Executive Director. Officers, such as Archivist,
Secretary, Treasurer, and Institute Newsletter Editor, who now receive some
form of remuneration for their services.
1985 AMI retains a headquarters in Washington, D.C. with Executive Directors
and Treasurers receiving stipends.
1987 AMI expands their traditional conference methodology to encompass a
wider scope of subject matter and national level participation at the Annual
Meeting in Richmond, Virginia.
1988 The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) assumes publication of Military
Affairs.
1989 Military Affairs is renamed The Journal of Military History.
1989 AMI enters into a joint book project with the U.S. Commission on Military
History (USCMH) to publish the first American-produced issue of Revue
Internationale D'Histoire Militair on the U.S. Constitution and the armed
forces.
1989 AMI establishes a system of regional coordinators to promote nationwide
membership.
1990 AMI is renamed the Society for Military History (SMH).
1999 SMH and the George C. Marshall foundation co-sponsor the George C.
Marshall Lecture Program.
2003 SMH organizes to oppose the shuttering of historical operations at the
Center for Military History (CMH).
2007-2008 AMHF/AMI/SMH papers are formally transmitted to Kansas State
University for processing, permanent retention, and access by members and
researchers.
Scope and Contents
The Society for Military History Records (1933-2006) consists primarily of administrative and journal-related correspondence, organizational planning memoranda, and internal officer level reports. The original general arrangement of the records has been retained wherever possible. The majority of the collection is related to the preparation for annual conferences and the publishing of the organization's quarterly journal. The collection is organized into seven series: 1) Historic Papers, 2) Administrative Records, 3) Subject Files, 4) Journal Publishing Records, 5) Financial Records, 6) Printed Material, 7) Photographs. More detailed summaries of each series follow the scope and content section.
Originating as collaboration between the army's publications/historical research office workers and several Washington, D.C. area archivists, the organization, originally called the American Military History Foundation, was formed in an attempt to supplement the military's primary resource-poor collection in preparation to fight future wars. In time, the organization gravitated towards the scholarly study of American war fighting capabilities and public policy. Eventually, the organization grew into a multi-facetted society of scholars, military personnel, archivists, and military history enthusiasts, encompassing a dual foreign and domestic orientation, which encouraged a veritable kaleidoscope of traditional and non-traditional subject fields. Hence, this collection spans the history of the organization's different incarnations chronologically and by subject. These periods of change are reflected in their changes in name. They are the American Military History Foundation (AMHF), 1933-1939, the American Military Institute (AMI), 1939-1990, and the Society for Military History (SMH), 1990-present, respectively. Their main publication, frequently referred to as "the journal" in documentation, has also changed names several times. They are The Journal of the American Military History Foundation (1937-1939/1940), Military Affairs (1939/1940-1988), and The Journal of Military History (1988-present), respectively. The records also reflect the organization's involvement with other scholarly organizations, most notably the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the United States Commission on Military History (USCMH), as well as their affiliation and later absorption of the veterans/historians association the Order of the Indian Wars (OIW). Consequently, the strength of the collection lies with documentation concerning both the shifting needs of the general military, academic community, and the general pubic as well as the increased diversification of the military historiographic landscape due to the organization's non-profit efforts in both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Historic Papers (1933-1972) series consists of (1) box of documentation, relating to the original goals of the organization, several early projects, certificates of incorporation, constitutions and by-laws, reports outlining the duties of officers, copyright information, taxes, early organizational correspondence between founding members, and agreements made with other organizations regarding membership and journal publishing, including the Order of the Indian Wars (OIW) and Kansas State University (KSU). Also found in the series are a few 1935 articles, published through Army Ordinance, which provided a mission statement, the creation of an organization beyond the Army History Division and served as the starting point for the organization's publishing arm.
The Administrative Records (1933-2007) series consists of (79) boxes of correspondence and reports circulated between the officers of presidential administrations, individual organizational members, the executive directors, and the boards of trustees. These files include such issues as membership drives, conference planning, journal publication evaluations, officer reports, and general correspondence. The papers covering the early years focus on daily administrative activities within a narrow scope of weeks and months. The papers covering the latter years of the organization span both daily material and long-range planning by the organization's officers. Many notable archivists and historians served as officers in the organization, including Trevor Dupuy, William Foote, B.F. Cooling, Russell Weigley, K. Jack Bauer, Alan Millett, Robert Berlin, Donald Bittner, Timothy Nenninger, Edward Coffman, and Edwin Simmons.
Much of the correspondence and officer reports also shed light on several key events in the organization's history, including a 1940s attempted transformation of the journal towards a National Geographic-type format by Dallas Irving, the 1950s and 1960s performance of an all-volunteer editorial staff managed by Victor Gondos, Trevor Dupuy's late 1950 attempts to develop AMI into an increasingly scholarly organization, periodic evaluations of Kansas State University's journal publishing performance, the forces behind the creation of the Moncado Awards and the AMI/SMH Book Award, the search for a replacement publisher for the journal prior to the 1988 completion of KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY 's contract, and reports outlining the sequence of fiscal/membership crises which nearly dissolved the organization. Similarly, the SMH papers of Donald Bittner collected in this series outline the entire process of conference creation from thematic conception to methodological process and management to the post-conference publication of several papers in the Marine Corps University's "Perspectives on Warfighting." Correspondence pertaining to several other noted military historians can also be found in this series, including material by Martin Blumenson, Victor Gondos, Brian Linn, Forest Pogue, Craig Symonds, Dennis Showalter, Robin Higham, Robert Berlin, and Bruce Catton.
The Subject Files (1908-1993) series consists of (11) boxes, containing a wide assortment of document-types from the organization's holdings according to topic and chronology. These files, originally retained separately from the general collection, were frequently utilized by different administrations as reference material for numerous policy initiatives described in other series. The set of records relating to the Order of Indian Wars contain both historic oral histories of the Plaines Wars and membership lists as a recruitment resource, which were incorporated into the organization when the Order of the Indian Wars merged with AMHF/AMI between 1938 and 1947. Other files contain biographical summaries of influential early members and journal contributors. Several files concern the drafts, correspondence, and memoranda on the reorganization of organization. Another collects the correspondence, submitted entries and judges description's for AMI's 1939 "Historical Fire Arms Contest." Still others include the efforts of several public relations to increase membership, membership paraphernalia, contractual agreements with other organizations, reports concerning the location and disposition of the AMI Library and Archives, federal tax-related forms, the history behind the Moncado Award, and one of the only successful 1960s Civil War commemorative events, the AMI Civil War Centennial Celebration.
The Journal Publishing Records (1933-1980) series consists of (13) boxes of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and papers submitted for publication by the journal. It covers the publication's many changes in name, editorial direction and format from The Journal of the American Military History Foundation (1937-1939) to The Journal of the American Military Institute (1939-1941) to Military Affairs (1941-1988), and, most recently, to The Journal of Military History (1989-present). The contents range from submitted manuscripts, such as "The United States Army Troops in China, 1912-1937" by Charles W. Thomas III (circa 1933), to editorial board-level material. Although originating in 1937 as the Journal of the American Military History Foundation, the majority of this collection was gathered together in the 1950s by Victor Gondos and served as the staff's institutional memory during his tenure as editor of Military Affairs.
Researchers interested in business history and publishing will find the editor's daily correspondence particularly valuable, detailing the journal's on-going relationship with printers, advertisers, readers, reviewers, and prospective contributors. Another valuable resource includes the Cold War era's editorial board reports, which recorded membership/subscriber growth as well as managed printing venues, advertisers, subscribing institutions, and book reviewers. Other interesting subjects covered by the files include editor Dallas Irving's attempt to widen the journal's readership, the near dissolution of the journal in the late 1940s upon the resignation of the volunteer editor, the brief period in which the publication was maintained by the United States Army Office of the Chief of Military History, the 1949 attempt to rescue the publication by then-Columbia University President Dwight Eisenhower, the 1968 transition of publishing operations from a volunteer staff in the Washington, D.C. area to a paid professional publishing staff comprising Kansas State University's History and English departments and headed by Robin Higham, and a 1998 joint project with the United States Commission on Military History to publish an issue of Reveue Internationale D'Histoire Militair on the relationship between the United States Constitution and America's armed forces.
The Financial Records (1934-1999) series consists of (17) boxes of accounting records, receipts, officer reports, trustees meeting minutes, membership lists, and correspondence by subject and chronology. The first section of the records includes membership lists spanning the early years of the organization and the Cold War era AMI, detailing the status of active members, dues accrued, patrons, and honorary members as well as groupings of members by geographic region. Some individuals listed as members include George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Charles Summerall, Samuel Bemis, William D. Campell, Hoffman Nickerson, Hilario Moncado, Walter Lippmann, Milton Skelly, Bernard Brodie, Stephen Ambrose, and Harold Deutsch. The second section covers the accounting records of the early organization to the onset of the Second World War in the form of bank statements, bound ledgers, deposit slips, paid bills, and check books. The remainder of the collection covers the Treasurer and the Treasurer-Secretary's reports to the organization's officers, meeting minutes with the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning member's status, investments, and bills to be paid. The financial arrangements made for joint conferences/seminars with other organizations are also interesting, including the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, arrangements made for the organization's own annual conferences, and the early AMI Treasurer's financial reports concerning membership shortfalls after World War II and the Korean War.
The Printed Material series collects in (3) boxes maps, posters, and illustrations as well as copies of conference programs, newsletters, and some newspaper clippings. The first section of the series contains several black and white illustrations, printed in England, outlining the evolution of weaponry from edged weapons and armor to firearms, graphics describing officer ranks, two World War II era posters ("Careless Talk" and "5th War Loan"), maps of the United States, the world, and a handful of World War I battlefield actions. The second section holds several programs for SMH Annual Meeting events, membership directories for both the AMI and SMH for the years 1981, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000, and 2002, respectively, and an eighteen year run of the Headquarters Gazette (1990-2008). The final section of the series includes newspaper clippings, featuring the obituaries of notable organizational members.
A complete collection of Journal of Military History issues from 1994-2006 has been separated from the papers, catalogued, and shelved in the University Archives.
The Photographs (1940-2008) series collects in (1) box the miscellaneous printed images and portraits of the organization's members. Included in the series are portraits of several early organizational presidents and officers, black and white pictures of the 1968 Victor Gondos Testimonial Dinner, a photo of Victor Gondos at his desk, an assortment of images depicting naval vessels, aircraft, military personnel, and combat actions collected for potential supplements to issues of Military Affairs, as well as amateur pictures taken of SMH awards recipients and panel discussions held at miscellaneous annual conferences.
Series Descriptions
Series I: Historic Papers, 1933-1972 (Box 1): While the Society for Military History (SMH) has periodically changed in name, management, and direction to reflect changes in membership goals several times in its history, these documents have been identified for their inherent historic value and as representative of many near-century-long organizational trends. Some of these items include the 1933 Infantry Journal and Ordinance articles (which proposed the creation of the American Military History Foundation [AMHF]), a copy of the organization's mission statement and publishing goals, lists of military history-related documents from other repositories, the American Military Institute (AMI) Certificate of Incorporation, and copy right information. Other files include memoranda outlining the organization's structure, officer duties, proposed changes to the constitution and by-laws and agreements with outside parties (notably the Order of the Indian Wars [OIW] and Kansas State University [KSU]).
Series II: Administrative Records, 1933-2006 (Box 2-81): By far the largest section of the SMH collection, Administrative Records contains the day-to-day business records of the organization from its origins as a 1930s think-tank for archivists and army historians to a national scholarly organization in the twenty-first century. It contains secretarial-level files, officer reports, presidential administration material, and Board of Trustees meeting minutes. While largely dealing with individuals and businesses through correspondence, the contents also shed light on several key organizational matters, including the original intent of the AMHF, the creation of the AMI, the organization's work with the Order of the Indian Wars (OIW), American Historical Association (AHA) and Organization of American Historians (OAH), the proposed creation of a National Military Museum, the transformation of MA into a scholarly publication, the accounting of administration expenses, MA subscription issues, planning for direct mailing campaigns, the creation of regional outlets for AMI, and collected membership biographical queries.
The amassed AMI era documentation in this series also provides a venue for the comparisons between various organization presidencies and executive directors, including Colonel William Foote, Charles (Reg) Schrader, Russell Weigley, B.F. Cooling, Edward Simmons, Robert Berlin, and Edward Coffman. Another section includes officer level-papers, which cover a wide range of chronologically arranged and alphabetized correspondence, membership drive material, Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, membership survey responses as well as several officer-level special projects and seasonal reports. A considerable segment of this series also includes the officer papers of Donald Bittner, documenting the preparations made for the 1992 Annual Meeting and the subsequent creation of the third volume of Marine Corps University's "Perspectives on Warfighting" journal. This material includes conference management paperwork, submitted conference papers, editorial critiques, and promotional activities.
Finally, in the form of printed emails, formal correspondence, and officer reports, the SMH era material also contains documents relating to the organization's handling of numerous crises, including the battlefield preservation of Manassas, the proposed creation of a national military history museum, the protests over the potential closure of the Center for Military History at Carlyle Barracks, the effects of OAH activities on the 2000 SMH George Marshall Lecture, personnel and intellectual property rights, disagreements between the officers and the editorial staff of the Journal of Military History, and the controversy over the creation of the SMH website.
Series III: AMI Subject Files, 1925-1999 (Box 82-93): Originally utilized by AMI Librarians/Archivists and officers as reference material for the crafting of organizational policy, this series covers important components of the organization's history only tangentially mentioned in other records.
Some sections of this series contain bureaucratic material, including legal agreements concerning publishing rights, AMI ephemera, AMI membership drives, and the formal incorporation of AMI, and AMI President Trevor Dupuy's proposal to restructure the organization and federal tax material. Other files contain subject-specific documentation acquired in the pursuit of special projects, including the personal narratives of veterans of the Plaines Wars originally collected by the Order of the Indian Wars, early primary document collection and bibliographical matter of the American Military History Foundation, an assortment of documentation concerning negotiations to bring Military Affairs to Kansas State University, and the history behind the Moncado Award. Still other files contain event-oriented material, including Victor Gondos's plans for AMI's Civil War Centennial events, membership entry paperwork for a 1939 "Historic Fire Arms Contest," and book sales at the organization's annual conferences. The final segment of the series contains the correspondence and reports filed by the AMI Librarian/Archivist, noting the changing locations and dispositions of AMI's library holdings, which were scattered across many states, repositories and basements of private houses, while the officers searched for a permanent site to house the records.
Series IV: Journal Publishing Records, 1933-1989 (Box 94-107): Spanning the first issues of The Journal of the American Military History Foundation in the 1930s in Washington, D.C through the Military Affairs years at Kansas State University (KSU) to the postmodern Journal of Military History published at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), this series collects the operating and editorial-related documentation for the organization's quarterly published magazine/journal. It includes manuscript copies of articles reviewed and/or published by the journal, format changes made to the periodical over the years, reports detailing changes in editorial policy, editorial board meeting minutes, and editor's correspondence with writers, advertisers, and printers as well as query letters, book review discussions, subscription drives, and accounting records. The most complete records cover editorial operations handled by Robert DeT. Lawrence and William Ross, Michael Skelly, Victor Gondos, and Robin Higham.
Several of the records also provide a window to the journal's symbiotic relationship with the greater organization, including the publication's defined mission, its pivotal role in the development of membership and direction for the organization during the Cold War, and periodic discussions about shifting publications format and content criteria from a secular magazine to a scholarly journal. Other items of note include reports and meeting minutes regarding the 1949-1952 near-dissolution of the publication, the management of the organization's newsletter, The Headquarters Gazette, and the publication's evolution from a volunteer-based staff in the Great Depression and Second World War to a professional model under KSU History Professor Robin Higham in the late 1960s to the relocation and transition of operations to desktop publishing at VMI in 1988.
Series V: Financial Records 1933-1975, (Box 108-125): This series contains the first forty-two years of AMHF/AMI financial records (1933-1975), covering the transition of the organization from a Washington, D.C. beltway seminar group (AMHF) to a more academically-oriented organization for military historians (AMI) and, eventually, to an all-inclusive scholastic organization (SMH).
Most of this series is comprised of budgetary ledgers, bank statements, membership dues lists, and check books, concerning the underwriting of organization's early membership participation. A thorough search of the records, however, will also reveal details behind the organization's publication efforts (most notably The Journal of the American Military History Foundation/Military Affairs), and numerous events, including one-day events, guest joint-sessions at other venues, such as the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, and the group's own annual meetings. Similarly, whereas a large portion of the series chronicles the accounting practices of the group, special attention should also be paid to the Treasurer's reports and officer correspondence as well as the meeting minutes of several Boards of Trustees and early membership demographics by region. Taken together, these files reveal a consistent triage-oriented fiscal policy, which permeated the organization's early struggles to gain self-sufficiency. Consequently, officers attempted to mitigate shortfalls through membership recruitment campaigns, the application of funds to more immediately beneficial group projects, and the constant monitoring of their financial investments as a direct result of the series of budgetary crises in the 1950s, which nearly caused the dissolution of Military Affairs (MA) and the AMI.
Series VI: Printed Material, 1939-2004 (Box 126-128): In over seventy years of operation, AMHF/AMI/SMH staff and members collected numerous journal inserts, graphics, maps, hand-drawn/painted illustrations, and posters. Some of these items, such as graphics and maps, were utilized in journal publications. Other items include members printed obituaries, membership directories, Annual Meeting Programs and issues of the Headquarters Gazette.
Series VII: Photographs, 1930s-1999 (Box 129): This series contains photographic portraits of several organizational presidents, pictures of testimonial dinner attendees and conference presenters, and miscellaneous photographs related to Military Affairs that were kept for the sake of posterity. Still other items found in this series were collected by various members in their world travels and sent to sitting officers as gifts.
Container List
Box Folder
Series I: Historic Papers, 1933-1972 (Box 1)
AMHF/AMI Précis and Special Projects, 1933-1949
01 01 Foundation Document, 1933
02 Directory of Original Sources, 1933 (Project Number 1)
03 Press Clippings, 1933-1940
04 Organizational Steering Correspondence and Memoranda
05 Secretary's Notes: Archives and Manuscripts, 1934
06 Chicago Historical Society: Naval Manuscripts, 1934
07 List of Members, 1934
08 Supplement to Army Ordinance, 1935
09 Newberry Library, Chicago Manuscripts
10 Military Prints Notes
11 West Point Library and Manuscript Holdings Report
12 Congressional Documents Pertaining to Wyoming Typescript, 1934
13 Wyoming Historical Collections
14 Military History and Thought Articles
15 Major C.C. Benson: Article Calling for the Establishment of the American
Military History Foundation, 1933
16 General Information Aims, 1940s
17 AMHF and AMI History
18 Certificates of Incorporation and Change of Name
19 Constitution and By-Laws, 1930s-1957
20 By-Laws, 1938
21 History, 1949
Series II: Administrative Records, 1933-2006 (Box 2-81)
02 01 C.C. Benson Article and Correspondence, 1933
02 Organizing the American Military History Foundation Correspondence
03 Correspondence, 1933-1934, A
04 B
05 C
06 D
07 E-F
08 G
09 H-J
10 K-L
11 M
12 N-O
13 P-Q
14 R
15 S
16 T-V
17 W
AMHF/AMI Secretary's Files, 1935-1936
03 01 Correspondence with Colonel J.M. Scamell, Secretary-Treasurer, 1935-1936
02 Joint AHA-AMHF Session Correspondence and Other Material, Dec. 1935
03 Correspondence: Vote on Change in By-Laws, 1936
04 Correspondence, 1935-1936, A-B
05 C
06 D-E
07 F
08 G-H
09 I-J
10 K-L
11 M-N
12 O-Q
13 R
14 S
15 T-W
16 Organizational Partial Finding Aid for Box 1 (original preservation list for
organizational office use )
AMHF Secretary's Files, 1937
04 01 Correspondence, A
02 B
03 C
04 D
05 E-F
06 G
07 H
08 I- J
09 K-L
10 M
11 N-O
12 P-Q
13 R
14 S
15 T
16 W
AMHF Secretary's Files, 1938
05 01 Correspondence, Fred Todd-HA Deweerd
02 Correspondence, A-B
03 C
04 D
05 E-G
06 H [No I or J]
07 K [No L]
08 M
09 N-O
06 01 P-Q
02 R
03 S
04 T-V
05 W-Z
AMI Secretary's Files, 1939
07 01 Correspondence, DeWeerd, HA, Editor
02 A
03 B
04 C
05 D
06 E
07 F
08 G
09 H
10 I-J
11 K
12 L
AMHF Secretary's Files, 1939
08 01 M
02 N-O
03 P-Q
04 R
05 S
06 T
07 U-V
08 W
09 X- Z
10 Mail Vote on Name Change of Organization
AMI Secretary's Files, 1940
09 01 Correspondence, Circular Letters, Form Letters
02 American Historical Association Meeting
03 A
04 B
05 C
06 D
07 E
08 F-G
10 01 Correspondence, McBarron, Charles Jr.-Artist
02 H
03 I-J
04 K
05 L
06 M
07 N
08 O
09 P-Q
10 O'Dell, Lt. R.H. Newspaper Article
11 01 R
02 S [1]
03 S [2]
04 T
05 U-V
06 W
07 X-Z
AMI Secretary's Files, 1941-1942
12 01 Chicago Conference
02 Correspondence, A
03 B
04 C
05 D
06 E
07 F
08 G
09 H
10 I
11 J
12 K
13 L
13 01 M
02 Meetings, 1941
03 Correspondence, Military Museum
04 N
05 O
06 P
07 R
08 S
09 T
10 U
11 V
13 W
14 X-Z
15 Officers and Trustees
16 Guild Diary, (Paid Secretary's Work Log)
AMI Secretary's Files, 1942-1944
14 01 Correspondence, A
02 B
03 C
04 Correspondence of Secretary Albion with Editor Campbell, 1942-1943
05 Correspondence, 1942-1943, D
06 E
07 Correspondence, Managing Editor-Military Affairs, 1942-1944
08 Correspondence, 1942-1943, F
09 G
10 Correspondence, 1942-1944, H
11 1942, I
12 Correspondence, 1942-1943, J
14 K
15 L
16 M
17 N
18 O-P
19 Correspondence, 1942-1944, Secretary to Dr. Stuart Portner, Editor
20 Correspondence, 1942-1943, Q-R
21 S
22 Correspondence, Secretarial Expenses, 1942-1943
23 Correspondence, 1942-1943, T
24 Trustees
25 W
AMI Secretary's Files, 1944-1945
15 01 Correspondence, A
02 B
03 C
04 D
05 E
06 F
07 G
08 H
09 I-J
10 K
11 L
16 01 M
02 N
03 O
04 P-Q
05 R
06 S
07 T
08 U
09 V
10 W
11 X-Z
AMI Secretary's Files, 1946-1947
17 01 Correspondence, 1946, A-C
02 D-F
03 G-K
04 L-Q
05 R-Z
06 Correspondence, 1947, A
07 B-C
08 D-F
09 G-K
10 L-M
11 Monumental Printing Co.
12 N-V
13 W-Z
AMI Secretary's Files, 1948-1952
18 01 Secretary's Files, 1948-1950
02 General Secretary's Correspondence, 1947 [includes Administrative Matters]
03 AMI General Secretary's Files-Administrative Matters, 1949 [Xerox Copies]
04 Military Affairs, Sample Subscription Correspondence, 1949-1950
05 General Secretary's Correspondence on Editorial Matters, 1950-1951
06 Secretary's Correspondence, 1950-1952
07 Assistant Secretary's Correspondence, 1951
08 AMI-AHA Joint Session December, 1952, and Notes on History of Reserves
AMI Secretary's Files, 1948
19 01 Correspondence, A
02 Air Force Libraries
03 Attaché Letters
04 Aztec Club of 1847
05 B
06 C
07 D
08 E
09 F
10 G
11 H
12 I
13 J
14 K
15 L
15 Legalization
16 M
17 Membership Drive
18 Minutes of Meetings
19 Monumental Printing
20 N-P
21 Order of the Indian Wars
22 Q-R
23 Receipts
24 Resignations
25 S
26 T
27 U-V
28 W-Z
AMI Secretary's Files, 1948-1995
20 01 Correspondence, A
02 B
03 C
04 D
05 E
06 F
07 G
08 H
09 I
10 J
11 K
12 L
13 M
14 N
15 O
16 P
17 R
18 S
19 T
20 U and V
21 W
22 XYZ
23 Form Letter Welcoming Members
24 Form Letters
25 Minutes, 1950
26 Extended Minutes, 1950
27 Meeting Misc., 1952-1995
AMI Secretary's Files, 1953-1962
21 01 Secretary's Correspondence, 1953-1957 [Colonel William C. Foote]
02 1953-1969
03 Correspondence, 1958
04 Correspondence [From Louise Milburn], 1958
05 Correspondence [From Louise Milburn to Ralph Donnelly], 1959
06 Monumental Printing Co. Correspondence, 1957-1961
07 Clerical Expenses, 1958-1959
08 Correspondence [Louise S. Milburn's File], 1960
09 Louise S. Milburn Salary Records, Office Manager, 1958-1959
10 Milburn Employment Documents, 1959-1962
11 Membership Meeting Minutes, 1959
AMI Secretary's Files, 1958-1962
22 01 Secretary's Reports, 1958-1959
02 Membership Correspondence, 1958-1959
03 Correspondence with Life Members, 1958-1962
04 Membership, Annapolis, Maryland, 1958-1962
05 Membership Inquiries, 1960-1962
06 Membership Correspondence, 1960-1962
07 Bills and Correspondence on Subscriptions, 1962
23 01 Presidential Correspondence, Membership Drive, 1958
02 Army Times Subscription Agency, 1958-1959
03 Military Affairs Subscriptions through Central Magazine Co., 1958-1961
04 Military Affairs, Correspondence on Exchange Subscriptions, 1959
05 Subscription Agencies, 1958, 1961
06 Miscellaneous Receipts and Comments on Memberships and Subscriptions,
1959-1960
07 Military Affairs Complaints, 1959-1961
08 Correspondence on Back Issues, 1959-1961
09 Editor's Correspondence about Members [includes List of Life
Members], 1958-1961
10 Special Billing, Members, 1959-1961
11 Military Affairs Subscription Correspondence, 1959-1962
AMI Secretary's Files, 1958
24 01 Direct Mail Campaign, Acceptances, Regrets, Current Members, etc. List
02 Direct Mail Campaign, New Members Biographical Sketches
03 Biographical Sketches of Annual Members
04 Direct Mail Campaign, Biographical Sketches of Life Members
05 Campaign, Requests for Information
06 Direct Mail Campaign, Requests for Information from Newspaper
Advertisement
07 Responses to Direct Mail Campaign, Regrets
AMI Secretary's Files, 1962-1966
25 01 Correspondence with Members, 1962-1966, A
02 Correspondence, Atkinson, James D. President, 1965-1966
03 Correspondence, 1962-1966, B
04 C
05 D-E
06 F
07 G
08 Military Affairs Government Orders, 1963-1966
09 Correspondence, 1962-1966, H
AMI Secretary's Files, 1962-1967
26 01 Members Correspondence, 1962-1966, I-K
02 L
03 M
04 N-O
05 P-Q
06 R
07 S
08 T
09 U-V
10 W-Z
11 Membership Inquiries, 1962-1966
12 Director's Form Letters, 1966
13 Membership Correspondence, 1967
14 Membership Director's Correspondence, 1966-1967
15 Secretary's Correspondence, 1967, Dues Paid
AMI Secretary's Files, 1966
27 01 Responses to Member Survey, 1966
AMI Secretary's Files, 1967-1968
28 01 Correspondence, Resignation of Secretary Weinert, 1967
02 Membership Applications, 1967
03 New Members, 1967-1968
04 Government Orders, 1967-1968
05 Subscribers, 1967-1968
06 Changes in Address, 1967-1968
07 Foreign Subscribers, 1967-1968
08 Request for Back Issues I, 1967-1968
09 Request for Back Issues II, 1967-1968
10 Request for Back Issues III, 1967-1968
11 Military Affairs Subscriptions, 1967-1968
AMI Secretary's Files; AMI Board of Trustees and General Meetings,
1933-1949
29 01 Correspondence "Miscellaneous", 1967-1968
02 Monumental Printing Correspondence and Membership Lists, 1967-1968
03 Correspondence, 1968
04 Membership Correspondence, 1969
05 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1939, and Bursaries Report, 1938-1939
06 Minutes, 1933-1940
07 1941-1944
08 1944-1949
09 Trustees Misc., 1942-1984
10 Trustees Meetings, 1951-1952
AMI Annual and Trustees Meetings 1952-1968
30 01 Trustee's Meetings, 1952-1953
02 1954-1955
03 American Historical Assn. and AMI Joint Meeting, 1955
04 Trustees Meeting, 1956
05 Annual Members Meetings, 1950-1956
06 Trustees Meeting, 1957
07 American Historical Assn-AMI Joint Meeting, 1958
08 Trustees Meetings, 1958
09 Annual Meeting, Postponed, 1959 (Jan. 31)
10 Annual Meeting, 1959 (Feb. 27)
11 Trustees Meeting, 1959 (Feb. 27)
12 Special Meetings
13 AMI-AHA Joint Session, 1959 (Dec.)
14 AMI/AHA Joint Session, 1960
15 Annual Meeting, 1960 (Feb. 14)
16 Annual Meeting, 1960 (Nov. 4)
17 Trustees Meeting, 1960 (Oct. 28)
18 Membership Committee 1961
19 Annual Meeting, 1961 (Mar. 29)
20 Meeting Civil War Symposium, Georgetown U, 1961 (Nov. 3-4)
21 Trustees Meeting, 1961 (Nov. 3)
22 Annual Meeting, 1962
23 Trustees Meeting, 1962 (Apr. 16)
24 Annual Meeting, 1963 Trustees Meeting
25 AMI-AHA Joint Session, 1964
26 Annual Meeting, 1964, Trustees Meeting
27 Executive Committee Meeting/AHA Meeting, 1964
28 Trustees Meeting, 1965 (Dec. 3)
29 Trustees Meeting, 1965
30 Memoranda, Notes, Draft for Trustees Meeting, 1966
31 Annual Meeting Correspondence, Memos, Reports, 1967
32 Gondos Correspondence and Notes on Trustees and Executive Committee
Meetings, 1968
AMI Minutes of the Board of Trustees and General Meetings, 1951-1959
31 01 Minutes, 1951-1954
02 1956-1958
03 1958-1959
04 Board of Trustees Meetings Minutes and Memoranda
05 1956 (January)
AMI Minutes of the Board of Trustees and General Meetings, 1968-1989
32 01 Minutes and Supporting Papers, 1968-1969
02 Annual Meeting, The Cosmos Club, Washington D.C., 1972 (Apr. 5)
03 Minutes and Related Papers, 1973-1979
04 1980-1989
AMI Miscellaneous Papers of Presidents R. Weigley, B. Cooling, E.
Simmons, and E. Coffman, 1966-1991
33 01 B.F. Cooling Correspondence as an AMI Member, Book Review Editor,
Trustee, and Vice President, 1966-1983
02 AMI-Kansas State University Agreement, 1972
03 Trustees' Correspondence, 1972
04 President Edward Simmons, Misc. Reports, 1978-1983
05 Miscellaneous Letters, 1981
06 President R. Weigley's Documents, 1975-1976
07 Council Meetings Miscellaneous Documents, 1982
08 President Coffman Correspondence on the AMI-SHAFR Meeting, 1982
09 B. F. Cooling's Miscellaneous Papers, 1983
10 Newsletter Number 1, 1991
AMI Vice President Edward Coffman Correspondence, 1977-1980
34 01 Program File, 1979-1980
02 Participation in History Conferences, 1977-1979
03 Committee on Long Range Goals, 1979-1980
AMI President Edward Simmons's Correspondence and Reports, 1982-1983
35 01 President Correspondence, 1982-1983
02 1982-1983
03 Disposition of the AMI Library, 1982-1983
04 Special Executive Committee Meeting, 1982
05 Vice President Correspondence and Reports, 1980
06 1981
07 Joint Meeting, AMI, SHAFR, CPR, 1982-1983
08 1982-1983
AMI Correspondence and Reports of President Edward Coffman 1983-1985
36 01 Correspondence and Reports
02 1983 (May-July)
03 1983 (Aug.-Dec.)
04 1984 (Jan.-Aug.)
05 1984
06 Annual Meeting, 1984 (Apr.)
07 SHAFR Meeting, 1984 (Aug.)
08 1984 (Sep.-Dec.)
09 1985 (Jan.-Apr.)
AMI Executive Directors Files, Correspondence and Reports, 1982-1990
37 01 Correspondence and Reports on Military Affairs, 1982-1988
02 Financial Matters, 1982-1984
03 1985-1988
04 National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, 1985-1987
05 KOHN Committee on Military Affairs, 1986-1987
06 Kansas State University-Virginia, Military Institute Transition of Journal,
1987-1988
06 Finance Committee, 1988
07 Promotional Material, 1989-1990
AMI Executive Directors Files Correspondence, 1983-1989
38 01 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1983-1987
02 AMI President and Others Correspondence, 1985-1987
03 Annual Meeting, Maryland, Minutes and Reports, 1986
04 Richmond,VA, 1987
05 Washington, D.C., 1988
06 Lexington, KY, 1989
AMI Executive Directors Correspondence, 1984-1992
39 01 B.F. Cooling's Papers, 1984
02 Letters Received, 1985-1988
03 Annual Meeting Correspondence and Reports, 1990
04 1991
05 President's Correspondence, 1989-1991
06 Membership Maintenance Contractor Correspondence, 1989-1991
07 National HDQRS and VMI Editor Correspondence, 1989-1991
08 Annual Awards Correspondence, 1985-1987
09 President Allan R. Millett Papers, 1988-1991
SMH Executive Directors Correspondence, Reports, and Minutes,
1990-1992
40 01 Reports, 1990-1992
02 Minutes and Reports, 1991
03 Correspondence, 1991-1992
04 Headquarters Gazette, 1991-1997
05 Council Minutes, 2000
SMH Donald Bittner Papers, "Perspectives on Warfighting," 1992
Conference
41 01 Donald Bittner, ed., Volume III of the Marine Corps University's
"Perspectives on Warfighting" series. Selected Papers from the 1992
59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, Hosted by the
Command and Staff College of the Marine Corps University
Manuscript: Page Proofs, Apr. 1994
02 Papers by Perry Jamieson, Brian Linn, Dirk Ballendorf, Paul Braim, George
Hoffman, Donald Graves, Peter Henshaw, David Hogan, Raymond
Callahan, Fritz Heinzen, and Edward Marolda
03 (12) 3 1/2 inch floppy copies of accepted papers
04 (4) 5.25 inch floppy copies of accepted papers
05 Washington Post Outlook Section, 1993 (Dec. 19)
06 Project Status Report, 1994 (Mar. 10)
SMH: Donald Bittner Papers, 1992 Conference
42 01 1992 Meeting Correspondence and Memoranda Evaluations of Papers
02 Commandants of the Marine Corps: Unexpected Nominations to Head
"America's Soldiers of the Sea"
03 Dieppe Reconsidered
04 The Medical and Psychological Dimensions of War
05 Diversity: Aspects of Naval Warfare in World War II
06 Amphibious Warfare in World War II: The British Perspective
07 Combined and Join Operations in the Persian Gulf
08 The Amphibious Operational Art in Evolution: three Case Studies from the
18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
09 The South Atlantic (Malvinas/Falkland Island) War of 1982: The Argentine
Perspective
10 Perspectives on the Art of War, 1587 to 1973
11 Miscellaneous Papers
43 01 British Expeditionary Operations in the Pre-Dreadnought Era
02 Amphibious and Riverine Operations in the American Civil War
03 Operations in the Mediterranean During World War II
04 Russia's Maritime Interests
05 18th Century Military Operations in Canada
06 The Experience of War: The U.S. Civil War and Postwar Era
07 Behind the Lines Specialists: rangers and partisans of the Second World
War and Korea
08 The Pacific Area in the 20th Century: From Plans to Combat
44 01 Panel Sessions, Participant Responses, 1992
02 Program for the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History
[Drafts], 1992 (Apr. 10-12)
03 Call for Papers, Miscellaneous Material, 1992
04 Proposal for Extraordinary Operations Papers for Volume III for Marine
Corps University
05 Faculty Advisors Student Participation Memo
06 Chairmen Functioning of-Memo to Director
07 Call for Papers: 1993 MTC (Kingston, Ontario)
08 Meeting: Trial Programs
09 Conference Program, Memo to Director
10 Program (Correspondence, General)
11 Sloan, John - Correspondence (Russians on panel)
12 Chairman Paper submissions guidance, comments, reports, and publication
45 01 Responses, General Inquiries about Annual Meeting
02 Book Exhibitors Correspondence
03 Miscellaneous Correspondence- Related Program (No Action)
46 01 The U.S Army Experience in East Asia
02 Expeditionary Operations of Europe's Great Powers
03 Developments in Aviation and Airpower in the Second World War Era
04 Nicaragua: From Marine Interventions to the Eisenhower Era
05 The Military in Central European Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
06 Diverse Experiences of War in the Pacific
07 Joint Operations in the Napoleonic Era: The Iberian Peninsula
08 Carrier Operations in World War II: The Pacific
47 01 Air Power in land and Amphibious Campaigns in World War II
02 From Colonial Warfare to Military Intervention: American Joint Operations,
1898-1992
03 Gallipoli Revisited
04 Planning for the Future: The Role of the U.S. Army Chief of Staff
05 Potpourri: Military Operations in Mexico, the Mediterranean and Asia
06 Amphibious Warfare Developments in the Inter-War Years
07 European Planning for War: From Strategic to Tactical
08 Airpower: Commentaries on the Bomber, Bombs, and Bombing
48 01 Receipts, Conference, 1992
02 Up to Conference
03 Chancellorsville Battle Tour, Advance Sign-up
49 01 Selected Papers Book, Volume III, Perspectives on Warfighting (President,
Marine Corps University), Conceptual Proposal
02 Proposed Book of Collected Essay (Memos to Director, CSC)
03 Book Proposal, MCU "Perspectives on Warfighting" Series Vol. III
04 Book, Negative Responses (Post Conference)
05 Book Proposals, Submission, No Response
06 Participants Responses Interest in Publishing in Book Pre-Conference
07 After-Conference Report (Smooth-Final)
08 (Rough Draft)
09 (Material Pertaining to)
50 01 Command and Staff College
Memorandums relating to 1992 SMH conference postmortem and
internal documentation concerning preliminary measures taken
regarding the publication of "Perspectives on Warfighting"
02 Memo, Director, Command and Staff College (Miscellaneous)
03 Finances and Annual Meeting
51 01 Society for Military History, 59th Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon, 1991
(Apr. 10)-Programs
02 Annual Meeting Program, 1992 (Apr. 10-12)
03 Participant Folders
52 01 Book, Chairman, Thank You Letters/Report/Recommendations
02 Reports
03 Commentators-Thank You Letters/Report/Evaluation
04 Barrett, Michael B.
05 Cooling, B. Franklin
06 Follis, Robert D.
07 Launius, Roger D. "Never was Life More Interesting: The NACA and
Aeronautical research, 1936-1945"
08 Lofgren, Stephen J.
09 Reid, Brian Holden "Another Look at Grant's Crossing of the James, 1864"
10 Siegel, Adam B.
11 Zimmerman, Phyllis A.
12 Book-Commentators Reports
13 Submission Proposal Guidelines
53 01 Sheraton, Thank You Letters
02 Fredericksburg-signed Contract (by Dr. Cooling)
03 Miscellaneous
04 Suites
05 Notes/Brochures, Meetings
06 Groome Transportation
07 Sheraton Hotel Brochure Folders
08 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1996
54 01 Perspectives on Warfighting Number Three, Selected Papers from the 1992
(59th Annual) Meeting of the Society for Military History United
States Marine Corps University Command and Staff College
Foundation: Quantico, 1994
02 Page Proofs of Perspectives on Warfighting Number Three, Selected Papers from
the 1992 (59th Annual) Meeting of the Society for Military History
55 01 Blewett, Daniel K. "The Carrier's Dilemma in Amphibious Operations in the
Pacific War"
02 Copp, Terry "Operation Switchback: A Case Study in Short Range
Amphibious Operations"
03 Corum, Dr. James C. "The Luftwaffe's Army Support Doctrine 1934-1941"
04 Day, James S. "Wolfpacks and Donkeys: Partisan Operations in North Korea"
05 Frank, Willard C. "The Balearics Campaign of 1936: A Critical Opportunity
Lost"
06 Gallicchio, Mare "About Face: American Army Officers in China,
1941-1946"
07 Gardener, W.J.R. "Bertram Ramsey: Master of Amphibious Operations"
08 Gray, David R. "From Raiders to Leader Trainer: The Evolution of the U.S.
Army's Ranger Concepts during the Korean War"
09 Liddle, Peter M. "The Dardanelles/Gallipoli Campaign: In Pursuit of an
Understanding"
10 Nolan, John S. "British Operations around Brest, 1594"
11 Papadopoulos, Sarandii (Randy) "Clearing the Gulf of Riga: German
Amphibious Operations, 1917 and 1941"
12 Poulos, Terry "The Baltic Gambit: the Royal Navy, Strategy and
Amphibious Operations in the Crimean War, 1854-55"
13 Reed, John "The U.S Volunteers at War: Company Operations in the
Southern Philippines, 1900-1901"
14 Reguer, Sara "Churchill's Role in the Dardanelles Campaign"
15 Steckel, Francis C. "American Air Power and the Limits of War"
56 01 Castonquay, Jacques "Why and Where the American Forces Lost their First
War in Canada"
02 Daugherty, Leo J. "Desant: The Origin of Russian Amphibious
Expeditionary Operations: 1695-1725"
03 Davis, James E. "General Andre's Terres: An American Mole in the
Mexican Army, 1847?"
04 Gambone, Michael D. "Holding the Line: Armaments, Advisors, and
Collective Security in U.S.-Nicaraguan Relations, 1953-61."
05 Glass, Robert E. "The Hazards of Join Operations in the 17th Century: Two
English Expeditions to Hispaniola, 1685 and 1695"
06 Herson, James P. "Command in Crisis Coalition Conflict in Cadiz,
1810-1812
07 Kirkland, Faris. "Peace to War in 24 Hours: Panama, December 1989."
08 Mets, David R. "The Orphans of Air Research and Development?, The
Evolution of Non-nuclear Draft Bombs"
09 Mulligan, Robert "Bradstreet's Raid on Cadaraqui: August, 1758: The
British Capture of Fort Frontenae, Today's Kingston, Ontario,
Canada."
10 Selig, Robert A. "The French Capture of St. Eustatius, 26 November 1781"
11 Snyder, William. "Developing Air Power Doctrine: An Assessment of the
Air Corps Tactical School Experience"
12 Wise, Stephen R. "To Capture an Island: Amphibious Operations in the
Department of the South, 1861-1863."
57 01 Annual Report of the Executive Director-1991/92
02 Schedule
03 Meal Tickets
04 Call for Papers
05 Non-Availability of Government Quarters and Messing
06 Schedule Change (Quantico Session)
58 01 Heinzen, Fritz "U.S. Army in Operation Desert Storm-Topics for Further
Historical Research"
02 Marolda, Edward J. "A Host of Nations: Coalition Naval Operations in the
Persian Gulf"
03 Callan, Raymond "Lessons Learned-Churchill, Gallipoli, and Anzio"
04 Henshaw, Peter "Bernard Montgomery and the Dieppe Raid"
05 David Hogan "Rangers Lead the Way? The Problem of Misuse of U.S.
Army Rangers in World War II"
06 Hofmann, George "Technology, Ideas, and Reality: The Marine Corps and
the Christie Amphibian Tank"
07 Graves, Donald "'Fourth Service or Perennial Problem': The British
Combined Operations Organization, 1941-43"
SMH Donald Bittner Papers, 1991-1992 Conference
59 01 Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Sea Angel
02 Simmons, Brigadier General Edwin
03 Stackpole, Lieutenant General Henry C.
04 Operation Desert Shield/Storm-Letters of Invitation/Boomer
Correspondence
05 Initial Proposals/Staffing
06 Panel Proposals (Primary and Alternate)
07 Memos
08 Banquet Head Table Arrangements-Featured Speaker
09 Robertson, Dr. W. Glenn
10 Opening Banquet Speaker, Millett, A.R., 1992 (Apr. 10)
11 Closing Banquet Speaker, James, D.C, 1992 (Apr.)
12 Luncheon Speaker (Van Riper, P.K.-1992 (Apr. 11)
13 General Mundy
14 Closing Banquet Speaker (Ambrose, D.S., 1992 (Apr. 11) (Cancelled)
15 Headquarters Gazette Volume 3, Number 3, Winter, Society for Military
History, 1991-92
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1949-1992
60 01 Meeting Minutes, 1949
02 Statement, Non-Availability of Government Quarters
03 Registration Forms/Receipts (Not Picked Up), 1992
04 (Receipts When Signed by Chairman)
05 Reservation Card, Sheraton Inn Fredericksburg, 1992
06 Meeting Programs, 1992
07 Awards Luncheon, 1992 (Apr. 10)
"Welcome Aboard" Packets, Samples, 1992
08 Name Tags, Samples-Completed and Blank, 1992
09 Miscellaneous Forms, Conference Worktables, 1992
10 Leadership Roster, 1992
11 Highlight Session, 1992
12 Head Table Seating, Banquets and Luncheons, 1992
13 Guidance for Participants in Sessions, 1992
14 Call for Papers, 1992, Conference (in "Welcome Aboard" Packet), 1993
15 Banquet/Luncheon Tickets, 1992
16 Assistance Needed 1992, (Miscellaneous Materials)
17 After-Conference Published Account (U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center
Fortitudine) [sic], 1992
18 (Society for Military History-Headquarters Gazette)
19 (Royal Marines Historical Society), The Sheet Anchor
20 (Command and Staff College Foundation-Newsletter)
21 Paris Trip Receipts, 1993 (Feb. 6-20)
22 Annual Meeting Fredericksburg Program Proofs and Final Copies, 1992
23 President's Commendatory Letters, 1992
24 Pre-Conference Mail-out materials (Minus Draft Program), Members, 1992
25 1992 Post Conference Report, 1990 Meeting (U.S. Army Center for Military
History)
26 Newspaper Accounts, 1992 Meeting
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1985-1996
61 01 Alan Millett Records (AMI President), 1985-1996
02 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1992-1996
03 Annual Reports and Minutes, 1991-1993
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1989-1994
62 01 Annual Meetings Programs, 1989-1991
02 Journal Correspondence, 1992-1994
03 Meeting Kingston, 1993
04 Kingston Meeting Folder, 1993
05 Bethesda, Maryland, 1994
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1989-1999
63 01 1998-1999 Reports, Journal Requests
02 JMH Reorganization
03 Annual Meeting-General, 199l
04 National Coordinating Committee
05 Newsletter Ed.-Recording Secretary
06 Printed materials/Lapel Pins
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1990-2002
64 01 Regional Coordinator Correspondence, 1990
02 Headquarters Gazette Winter and Summer Issues, 1999
03 Kansas State University Annual Meeting Folder
04 Membership Directories, 2000, 2002
05 Mail Permit
06 Information for Mail Permit
07 Executive Director's Report, 2001 (May)
08 Council Meeting, 2001
09 Director's Insurance
10 Executive Director's Notes
11 Civil War Postage Stamp Transparency and Miscellaneous Correspondence
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1990-1999
65 01 Annual Meeting After-Action Reports, post-1990
02 Insurance
03 General Correspondence
04 Financial-Tax, 1991-1999
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1991-1999
66 01 Long-Range Planning 1991
02 Planning Calendar, 1992
03 Constitution-Charter, 1993
04 Elections, General
05 Nominations Committee
06 Teller's Committee
07 Elections, 1997
08 1999
09 Joint Publication Arrangement
10 Meeting, 1999
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1991-2000
67 01 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1992
02 Election,1993; Nomination and Teller's Committees, 1991-1993
03 SMH Awards Correspondence, 1992
Correspondence-President-Vice President, 1992-1993
04 Awards Materials, 1994
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1993-2000
68 01 Annual Meetings and Reports, 1993
02 1994
03 1995
04 1996
05 1997
06 1998
07 SMH Conference and draft of Headquarters Gazette Volume 9, Number 2,
Summer 1998
08 Annual Council and Business Meetings and Annual Reports, 1999
09 Council Meeting, Quantico, VA, 2000 (Apr)
10 Meeting, Quantico, Virginia, 2000 (Apr. 27-30)
11 2000 Meeting
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1993-2006
69 01 News Items, 1993
02 Winter 1994 Newsletter
03 "The Hike" Ms. 1994 (Feb.)
04 Newsletter Editor Report 1994 (Apr.)
05 Report 1996 (Apr.)
06 Material
07 Winter 1995/1996
08 Printing
09 Smithsonian Enola Gay Exhibit
[and anti-Manassas battlefield development material]
10 Newsletter Correspondence
11 "Saving Private Ryan" [research and Headquarters Gazette issue]
12 Newsletter Back Issues
13 Articles
14 Correspondence
15 Panel 1997 (Apr.)
16 Agendas, 2004
17 Ballot/Bios, 2004
18 Minutes, 2006
19 Finance Committee, 2006
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1993-2000
70 01 Meeting Minutes, 1993
02 World War II Session Sat., 1994 (April 9), 1:00pm-3:15pm
03 Annual Meeting Reports, 1994
04 Minutes Council and Business Meetings, 1994
05 Meeting, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1995 (May 11-14)
06 Newsletter Editor Report 1995 (Mar.)
07 Council and Business Meetings, 1995
08 Council Meeting, 1995
09 Annual Meeting Council/Business Meetings, 1996
10 Meeting, Roslyn, VA, 1996 (Apr. 18-21)
11 Annual Meeting, Montgomery, Alabama, 1997 (Apr. 11-13)
12 Annual Meeting Information/Recording Secretary, 1997
13 Minutes 1997 Council and Business Meetings
14 Handouts-Council Meeting Reports, 1997
15 Council Meeting, 1998
16 Quantico, Virginia, 2000 (Apr. 27)
17 Business Meeting Minutes, 2000 (Apr.)
18 Agenda, 2000
19 Minutes, 1999
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1993-1999
71 01 Mailings
02 Regional Coordinators
03 Vice President
04 Marshall Lecture
05 Correspondence
06 JMH
07 Permanent Historical File
08 Standard Operating Procedures Copies
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1994-1998
72 01 Executive Director, 1994
02 Volunteers and Committees Appointments
03 Automation Committee, 1996
04 Reports, 1997-1998
05 Annual Reports-Minutes
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1995-1996
73 01 Meeting-Gettysburg, 1995
02 Annual Meeting CIA, 1996
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1995-2004
74 01 Meeting Minutes, 1995, 1996, and 1998
02 Candidates, 2000 (Dec.)
03 Prizes and Awards for 2000 (Mar. 2001)
04 Information, 2000
05 AHA Military Reading Lists Paper, Jan. 2001
06 Moncado Prize Plaques, 2001
07 Miscellaneous
08 Officer Reports, 2001 (May)
09 Council Meeting Agenda, 2001
10 Post Calgary, Summer 2001
11 Annual Meeting, 2002 (Apr.) Madison, Wisconsin
12 Awards, 2001 Plaques
13 NCC information for AHA Meeting, 2001 (Jan.)
14 Luncheon at AHA, 2001 (Jan. 5)
15 Hyatt Contract Meeting Bethesda, Maryland, 2004 (May 20-24)
16 Meeting Minutes, 2003
17 Key Personnel List and Standard Operating Procedure Guide
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1998-2001
75 01 Web Site
02 Meeting Session Papers, 1998 (Apr.)
03 Robert Kaplan, "Four Star Generalists" for SMH Newsletter
04 Newsletter Expenses
05 Costs-American Printing
06 Winter, 1999 [draft]
07 Military Professional Reading Lists
08 Action November, 2000
09 Executive Director's Correspondence, 2000
10 Email/Correspondence, May 2000
11 Correspondence
12 George C. Marshall Foundation, George C. Marshall Lecture
Correspondence
13 Accounts, 2000
14 Key Personnel, Feb. 2000
15 2000 (Royalties Statements)
16 Regular SMH Information
17 Headquarters Gazette. Volume 12, Number 1, Winter, 2001
18 Election Ballot 2001 (Feb.)
19 Executive Director Correspondence, 2001
20 National Trade and Professional Listings Free Directory
21 Meeting Minutes
22 Budget
23 Korean War Article Manuscript
24 Hackemer Edited Newsletters (Headquarters Gazette issues)
25 Berlin Edited Newsletters (Headquarters Gazette issues)
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1998-2006
76 01 JMH/Website Controversy
02 1998-1999 Awards
03 Book Exhibitors
04 Travel Reimbursement Program
05 Awards, 2000
06 Awards Permanent
07 Event, 2000
08 Awards and Prizes Program, 2005
09 Kansas State University Visitor's Packet, 2006
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 1999-2006
77 01 Webmaster, 1999
02 Legal
03 Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2001 (May 23-26)
04 Calgary Agendas
05 Agendas 2002 Madison
06 The Citadel Information
07 National History Day 1999 Annual Report
08 Kansas State University, 2006
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 2002-2006
78 01 Awards, 2002
02 Tellers Committee, 2003
03 ABC-CLIO-SMH Research Grant
04 Bethesda, MD Panel, 2004
05 Officer Reports-May 2004
06 Awards-Checks (2005 Plaque Receipts)
07 Reports, 2005
08 Council Meeting Kansas State University, May 18, 2006
SMH Robert Berlin Papers, 2002-2005
79 01 Financial Statement, 2002
02 Project MUSE Contract for JMH
03 Dues Increase Article for Summer 2002 Newsletter
04 Revised Memorandum of Agreement
05 Newsletter Editor Memorandum of Agreement Payment Letters
06 Executive Director SMH Annual Report, 2002
07 Council Agenda Xerox
08 Treasurer's Report, 2002 (March)
09 Information, 2002
10 Salary Information, 2002
11 Plaques/Barbies Trophies, 2002 (Apr 2)
12 Mailing Permit Receipt, 2002
13 Award Plaques Checks
14 Awards, 2000
15 Award Nominations, 2002
16 Revised Council Meeting Minutes, 2002
17 Meeting, Monona Terrace Contract, Madison, WI, 2002 (Apr)
18 European Meeting
19 Reports, 2003
20 Conference, 2003
21 Knoxville, TN, Meeting, 2003 (May)
22 Award Checks and Financial Information, 2003
23 Barbies Trophies/SMH Plaques, 2003
24 Awards, 2003
25 ROWECOM Bankruptcy and Agreement March 2003 JMH
26 Executive Director's Report, 2003
27 Lapel Pins
28 EBSCO Agreement, 2004 (Apr 9)
29 Awards, 2004
30 Panel at OAH March [Biographical material], 2004
31 Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Awards
32 Executive Director Expenses/Receipts, 2004
33 Charleston, SC, Meeting, 2005
SMH Timothy Nenninger SMH Vice Presidential/Presidential Papers,
1986-2002
80 01 Constitution, 1986
02 Center for Military History, 1996 Demise
03 Annual Council Meetings, 1997-2002
04 AMI/SMH Officers, 1998
05 Awards Conference
06 JMH, 1998-1999
07 Awards
08 Vice Presidential Memoranda, 1998-2001
09 Regional Reports, 1998-2001
10 Trustee Business/Meetings etc.
11 Penn State 1999 Council Meeting (15 Apr.)
SMH Timothy Nenninger SMH Vice Presidential/Presidential Papers,
2002-2006
81 01 Archives
02 JMH Issues, 2002-2004, MUSE/JSTOR
03 Council Meeting Reports, 2002
04 2003
05 2004
06 OAH, 2004
07 USCMH/SMH and Military History Website (John Lynn)
08 Membership and Recruitment Committee, 2004
09 President's Report, 2004
10 Awards, 2004
11 Lecture, 2004-2005
12 Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, 2005
13 AHA-2006
Series III: AMI Subject Files, 1925-1999 (Box-82- 93)
AMI Order of the Indian Wars Papers 1925-1968
82 01 Indian Wars Records Correspondence, 1925
02 Office Space Correspondence, 1924, 1927
03 Personal Narratives
04 Brigadier General E.S. Godfrey Biographical Material and Correspondence,
1924-1932
05 Membership Lists
06 United Indian War Veterans of the U.S Convention Proceedings San
Francisco, California, 1932 (Sep. 8-10) Xerox Copy
07 Proceedings of Annual Meeting and Dinner, 1928
08 1929, 1936 Xerox Copies
09 Files of Order of Indian Wars Files Summaries 1938 (Apr.)
10 American Indian War Photographs Catalogue
11 Closer Union and Affiliation Correspondence, 1938-1968
12 Proxies and Votes on Affiliation with the AMI 1947 (Oct. 1)
13 Constitution and By-Laws, 1925, 1936 and Affiliation Agreement, 1947
14 Ordnance Museum Catalogue
AMHF/AMI Projects, 1925-1969
83 01 Kelly, James (American Military Artist and Sculptor)
02 Frederick P. Todd Correspondence on Military Uniforms and Insignia, 1925,
1931-1932
03 Projects Approved or Considered, 1933-1934, 1938
04 Brigadier General DeWitt C. Falls (NGNY) Obituary, 1937
05 Manuals of Style, Forms, 1938
06 General Notes, Proposals and Drafts on AMI Organization, 1939-1940
07 Committee on Frontier History (Later Cancelled), 1939
08 Caniff, Milton (Cartoonist), 1941
09 Grey, Gordon, Sculptor
10 Lull, Charles E.T. (Military Historian)
11 Roberts, Kenneth (Author)
12 Rose, Noah (Frontier Photographer)
13 Woodville, R. Caton (Artist)
14 New Officers Vote and Trustees Meeting Correspondence, 1940 (Oct. 12)
15 Notes on Seminar on the Total Science of War, 1940-1941
16 Sale of Books Correspondence, 1940-1941
17 Trustees Meeting, 1941 (Jan. 18)
18 General Paul Robinett's Proposal to Reorganize the AMI, 1949
19 Proposal to Enlarge Membership and Financial Support, 1954
20 Reform and Expansion of the AMI, 1956
21 President Trevor Dupuy's Proposal to Change the Focus of the Journal,
1957-1958
22 Military History Courses, 1957
23 Necktie Correspondence, 1965-1969
AMI Historical Arms Contest, 1939
84 01 Correspondence, 1939
02 Entries, 1939
03 Judges Decisions, 1939
AMI Public Relations and Promotional Activities, 1933-1968
85 01 Processed Samples of Material Used for General Publicity, 1933-1941
02 Processed Samples of Material Sent to All Members, 1934-1940
03 Publicity General Notes, 1940-1941
04 Entertainment Data (Notes on how to give an Institute party), 1940
05 Membership Appeals and Forms, 1944
06 Elections Material, 1950
07 Public Relations, 1956-1958
08 Wartime Activities and Public Relations, 1940-1945
09 Election 1966 (sample ballots)
10 Promotional Material, 1951-1968
11 Obituaries of Officers and Death Notices of Early Members
12 On Member's Biographical Information
13 Promotional Material, 1980s, 1990s
AMI Bibliographic Project, 1940-1941
86 01 Military Bibliography Correspondence, 1940-1941
02 Index to Army and Navy Chronicle, Volume I
03 Military Biography Project
04 "Guide to the Literature of Modern War in the English Language", 1941
05 Potential Modern War Classes
AMI Library Reports/AMI Military Affairs Book Review Documents,
1942-1964
87 01 Librarian G.J. Stansfield Correspondence, 1942-1948
02 Librarian, Correspondence, 1946-1959
03 Military Affairs, Correspondence of Book Review Editor, 1944-1954
04 1955-1959
05 Proposal to Change Book Review Section, 1958-1959
06 Book Review Editor Correspondence, 1960-1964
07 George Stansfield Book Clippings and Notes, 1951-1956
AMI Subject Files, Membership Documents, 1936-1972
88 01 Organization Correspondence Records, 1936-1938, and 1957
02 Seal
03 Organization and Duties of Officer Reports, 1942, 1946
04 Membership Pin, 1944-1949
05 Order of the Indian Wars Agreement, 1947
06 AMI-Kansas State University Agreement, 1968
07 Life Membership Certificate, 1955
08 Tax Exempt Status, Correspondence, 1972
09 Copyright Information
AMI Federal Tax-Related Documents, 1945-1970
89 01 Quarterly Federal Tax Returns, FICA, 1945, 1957-1959 [Colonel Foote's
File]
02 Federal Tax Returns, 1952-1970
03 1960-1970
04 D.C. Income Tax Return, 1965
AMI Hilario Moncado Award, 1948-1963
90 01 General Hilario Moncado and his Prizes
02 Moncado Book Fund Entries, 1948-1958
03 1954-1955
04 Moncado Prize for Best Article in Military Affairs
Correspondence, Notes, 1958-1978
Moncado Committee
05 Moncado Revolving Book Fund Committee
06 Armstrong Prize, 1962-1963
AMI Victor Gondos Files, Civil War Centennial, 1956-1964
91 01 Plans Correspondence, 1956-1957
02 Program Committee Chairman Correspondence, 1961 (Nov.)
03 Observances and Controversies
04 Commission Meeting Papers, Atlanta GA, 1964
05 Karl S. Betts Notes
06 Gondos Manuscript Article and Congratulations
07 Civil War Articles Bibliography in Military Affairs
AMI Awards, 1966-1994
92 01 Executive Committee-Regulations for AMI Fellows, 1966
02 Fellows Award Luncheon, Annapolis, Maryland, 1967 (Mar. 31)
03 Fellows Correspondence, Memos, Certificates, 1967
04 Future Actions Atkinson Fellow, Etc., 1969
05 Fellows Award Luncheon, Washington, D.C., 1970 (Oct. 31)
06 1971 (Nov. 23)
07 Fellows Correspondence and Citations, 1973-1974
08 Fellows Correspondence, 1975
09 Prize Committee File, Gondos and Samuel Morison Awards, 1983-1984
10 Fellows R.W. Davis
11 President's Certificate of Appreciation
12 Fellows
13 Committee Documents, 1994
AMI Library Reports, 1939-1999
93 01 Books List and Notes, 1939-1962 "Loans"
02 Librarian and Others Reports, 1940-1959 (Also "Rules" Circa 1946)
03 The Smithsonian Institution, 1967-1982
04 AMI Library Documents
05 Disposition of Holdings, 1982-1983
06 AMI Librarian Correspondence, 1982, 1993
07 Archivist's Correspondence, 1982-1999
08 Reports, 1982-1999
Series IV: Journal Publishing Records, 1933-1989 (Box 94-107)
AMHF Articles, 1933-1934
94 01 Articles
AMI Editor's Correspondence by Subject, 1938-1943
95 01 Military Affairs History
02 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence, Advertising, 1938-1942
03 Advertising Brochure, May 1942
04 Articles, Lame Duck II, 1942
05 Authors, 1939-1942
06 Books Loaned to Press, 1938-1939
07 Costs, Bids, Etc on Printing, 1937-1943
08 Censorship, 1942-1943
09 Cover, 1938-1942
10 Debt to Military Publishing Company, 1941-1942
11 Editorial Personnel, 1941-1942
12 Editorials, 1942-1943
13 Envelopes, 1939
14 Errors, 1939-1940
15 Exchanges
16 Finances, 1939-1942
17 Index, 1938-1939
18 Manuscripts, 1940 Form
19 Miscellaneous, 1939-1941
20 Next Issue, 1943
21 Raymond Rich Associates, 1940-1941
22 Scholarly Projects, 1941-1942
23 Size, 1938-1940
24 Societies, General, 1941
25 Special Printing Jobs, 1939
26 Transitory, 1943
27 Treasurer, 1941-1942
AMI Editor's Correspondence by Subject, 1939-1944
96 01 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence, 1939 Manuscripts
02 1942 AHA Meeting
03 National Archives Relations
04 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence, 1939-1942-Managing Editorship
05 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence on Volume II (1938)-Telegraph
Press
06 Volume III (1939)-Telegraph Press
07 Volume IV (1940)-Telegraph Press
08 Volume V (1941)-Telegraph Press
09 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence, 1941-1944, A-B
10 C-D
11 E-Gk
12 H-J
13 K-L
14 M-N
15 O-Q
16 R-S
17 T-Z
AMI Book Review Editor's Correspondence, 1944-1964; AMI Editor's
Correspondence by Subject, 1946-1950
97 01 Military Affairs Book Review Editor Correspondence, 1944-1954
02 1955-1959
03 Military Affairs Proposal to Change Book Review Section, 1958-1959
04 Correspondence of Book Review Editor, 1960-1964
05 Book Clippings George Stansfield File, Notes, 1951-1956
06 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence with Book Reviewers, 1946-1951
07 Editor's Correspondence, 1947, A
08 B-C
09 D-K
10 L-R
11 S-V
12 W-Z
13 Printing Costs and Estimates, 1947-1950
14 Book Review Information, 1948-1949
15 R.S. Thomas' Argument against Official Subsidiary and Related
Documents
16 [Robert deT. Lawrence], 1948
17 Publishers, Books for Review, 1948-1950
18 1949
19 Editors Reports, 1949
AMI Editor's Correspondence by Date, 1950-1960
98 01 Secretary and Editor Correspondence, 1950-1951
02 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence, 1950-1951
03 1952-1955
04 1956
05 1957
06 1958-1960
AMI Editor's Reports and Memoranda, 1951-1968
99 01 Manuscript Notes and Critiques, 1951-1968 [Editor's Correspondence with
Authors], 1951-1968
02 Editorial Board Minutes, 1951-1959
03 Miscellaneous Memoranda, 1951-1967 [includes Editorial Board Matters]
04 Editorial Reports, 1956-1964
05 Military Affairs Editor's File on "Prospectus and Publicity" of AMI and
others [1953-1961]
06 "Encomia [1956-1966]-Reprint Requests
07 Office Procedures, 1956-1957
AMI Editor's Miscellaneous Files, 1951-1967
100 01 The Battle of Caseros-The Dawn of Modern Argentina
02 Military Affairs Publication Figures, 1951-1956
03 Military Affairs Requests for Index to Volume 19, 1955-1956
04 Printing Costs, 1951-1957
05 Subscription and Circulation Data, 1951-1956
06 Advertising Information, 1951-1957
07 Editor's File "Military Periodical List, 1959-1960
08 Editor's Correspondence on Addressograph Plates, 1957
09 Book Review Editor's Correspondence, 1960
10 Microfilming Military Affairs, 1954, 1958, 1965-1967
11 Editor's Correspondence, AMI-AHA Joint Session, 1964
12 Military Affairs Editor's Correspondence-Famous Soldiers Pictures
13 "A History of Military Affairs" Material
AMI Editor's on Military Affairs Vol. 1953-1956, 1953-1975
101 01 Military Affairs Notes, XV-2, 1952
02 Military Affairs, XVI, Number 1, Notes, 1952
03 Number 2, Notes
04 Number 3, Notes
05 Notes, XVI, 4, 1953
06 Indexes, Volumes XV and XVI, 1954
07 Notes, XVII, 1953, 1,
08 2, Notes
09 3
10 4
11 Notes-Index XVII, 1955
12 Notes, XVIII, 1, 1955
13 2
14 3
15 4
16 Notes-Index XVIII, 1955
17 XIX, 1955, 1-Notes,
18 2
19 3
20 4
21 Notes, General
22 Index
23 Military Affairs, Sent 1975
AMI Military Affairs Reprint Requests; Editor's Correspondence by Date,
1961-1973
102 01 AMI Military Affairs Requests for Reprints 1969-1973
02 Correspondence, 1961
03 1962
04 1963
05 1964
06 1965
07 1966
08 1967
AMI Editor's Correspondence by Date and Subject, 1957-1969
103 01 General Correspondence, 1957-1967
Transfer of Military Affairs to Kansas State University Correspondence,
1966-1967
02 Correspondence, 1968 (January-June)
03 (July-December)
04 Post Office Correspondence, 1967-1968
05 Book Reviews Correspondence, 1968-1969
06 Kansas State University Agreement Correspondence and Memoranda,
1968-1972
07 Constitution and By-Laws 1969 (Feb. 17)
AMI Editor's Headquarters Gazette Correspondence by Date, 1965-1971
104 01 Correspondence, 1965
02 1966
03 1968
04 1969
05 1970
06 1971
AMI Editor's Headquarters Gazette Correspondence by Date, 1972-1975;
AMI Editor's Correspondence by Subject, 1973-1975
105 01 Correspondence, 1972
02 1973
03 1974
04 1975
05 American Committee on the History of the Second World War, 1973-1975
06 U.S. Commission on Military History, 1975
AMI Subscription Drive through Agencies M-U, 1958-1962
106 01 Military Service Company, Inc., 1959-1962
02 Miscellaneous Small Orders, 1958-1962
03 Moore-Cottrell Subscription Agencies, 1958-1962
04 National Publications Company, 1958-1962
05 National Magazine Company, 1960
06 New Era Book and Subscription Company, 1958-1962
07 Subscription Service Company, Birmingham, Alabama, 1958-1962
08 Turner Subscription Agency, NYC, 1958-1962
09 U.S. Government (Except Military) Direct, 1958-1962
AMI/SMH Miscellaneous Documents on Membership, Military Affairs, and
Headquarters Gazette, 1939-1989
107 01 Vote on Name Change, 1939
02 Blank AMI Certificates
03 Military Affairs, Editor's Correspondence, 1933-1943
04 Membership Secretary, 1943-1947
05 Letter of Frederick Todd on Military Affairs, Dec. 19, 1949
06 Membership Lists
07 Secretary's Correspondence, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959
08 Military Affairs Editor Correspondence, 1954, 1958, 1967-1968, 1975-1976
09 Typescript of Articles for Headquarters Gazette
10 Headquarters Gazette
11 Military Affairs, Editor's Correspondence, 1968, 1971-1972
12 Editor's Reports on Military Affairs, 1973-1974, 1976-1980
13 Miscellaneous member and Subscription Documents
14 Editor's Memo to Trustees, 1985
15 Victor Gondos Miscellaneous Correspondence
16 Headquarters Gazette, 1989
Series V: Financial Records 1933-1975, (Box 108-125)
AMHF/AMI Membership, 1934
108 01 Members (1934-1935)
02 General Forms and Notes on Dues, Collections, etc., 1935-1941
Patrons and Members, 1935-1942
03 Members, 1936
04 Paid Members, 1938
05 Members in Arrears
06 Prospective Members List, Circa 1939
07 Membership List, 1940
08 Honorary Members, 1940
09 Members Classed Specialty, 1940
10 District of Columbia Correspondence and Members, 1940
11 California and the Pacific Northwest Members, 1940
12 Boston and Vicinity Members, 1940
13 Philadelphia Members, 1941
14 Membership List Circa 1941/Professional and Weapons Interest Lists
15 Membership Lists and Bank Deposits, 1946 (June)-1948 (Feb.)
16 AMI Treasurer's Records, List of Members, 1947
17 Resignations, 1947
18 Membership Lists and Data, 1947-1953
19 Reports, 1951-1952
20 Certificate of Membership, Blank
AMHF Financial Records, 1933-1939
109 01 Financial Records, 1936
02 1933-1939
03 Vouchers-Paid Bills, 1937
04 Records Prior to 1936
05 Membership Correspondence, 1951-1953
06 Subscription Notes, 1953-1955
07 Change of Address List, 1956
08 Membership List, 1957
09 Treasurer's Membership Records, 1967-1969
AMHF/AMI Bank Statements, 1937-1946
110 01 Bank Statements and Vouchers, 1937-1938
02 1939
03 1939-1941
04 1941
05 1942
06 Bank Deposit Slips, Dec. 1941-Jan. 1943
07 Bank Statements, 1943-1945
08 1945
09 1946
AMHF/AMI Accounting Records, 1933-1941
111 01 Checkbook, 1933-1939
02 Cash Receipts and Expenditures, 1940/Paid Members List, 1940-1946
03 Paid Members List, 1933-1939/Expenditures, 1935-1941
04 Secretary's "Financial Notes", 1933
05 Bank Relations (American Security and Trust Co.), 1935, 1939, 1941
06 Checkbooks, 1939-1941; Savings Account Books, 1938-1943
07 Dues Paid, 1939
08 Bills Paid, 1940
09 1940
10 Bound Ledger, 1940-1941
11 Bound Checkbook, 1941
AMI Treasurer's Records, 1941-1945
112 01 Correspondence, 1941-1942
02 Bills Paid, 1941
03 Rendered by AMI and Paid, 1941-1942
04 Paid, 1942
05 Outstanding, 1940-1942
06 Miscellaneous, 1942
07 Paid Subscriptions, 1942
08 Correspondence, 1943
09 Bills Paid, 1943
10 1944-1945
11 Cancelled Subscribers List, 1943
12 Correspondence, 1945
AMI Treasurer's Reports, 1942-1975
113 01 Life Membership Funds Usage for Publishing "Military Affairs" Memo
02 Annual Report, 1942-1944
03 Reports, 1948-1975
04 Committee on Financial Affairs, 1967-1968 [Paul Sheips, Chairman]
AMI Bills Paid and Bank Statements, 1946-1956
114 01 Bills Paid, 1946
02 1945
03 1952
04 Unpaid Bills, 1947
05 Bank Statements on Operating Fund, 1952-1953
06 1954
07 Capitol Fund, 1954-1956
08 1955
09 1956
AMI Treasurers Records, 1945-1970
115 01 Event Program, 1945
02 Accounting Records, 1948-1967
03 Checkbook, 1952-1954
04 Checkbook, 1954-1956
05 Bank Statements, 1957-1958
06 Operating Fund Bank Statements, 1957
07 Operating Fund Bank Statements, 1958
08 Checkbooks, 1961-1962
09 Bank Statements, 1960
10 Secretary Treasurer's Correspondence, 1970
AMI Treasurer's Correspondence, 1950-1970
116 01 Correspondence, 1950-1953 [marked "Dead File"]
02 1952-1953
03 and Bills Paid, 1951-1952
04 1952-1953 [Marked "Active File"]
05 1954
06 Stock Certificates and Correspondence,
07 Accounts, 1953/Bills Paid, Jan. 1954-Jan. 1955
08 Treasurer's Correspondence and Bills, 1955
09 1956
Miscellaneous Treasurer Documents, 1957-1970
AMI Treasurer's Correspondence, 1957-1969
117 01 AMI Treasurer's Correspondence, 1957
02 1958
03 1959-1961
04 1962-1963
05 1964-1965
06 1966-1967
07 1968
08 1969
AMI Treasurer's Bound Ledgers, 1952-1959
118 01 Expenditures, 1952
02 Receipts, 1952
03 Receipts, Fiscal Year, 1959
AMI Secretary-Treasurer's Records Bank Statements, 1956-1964
119 01 Check Books, 1956-1959
02 Canceled Checks, 1961
03 Dinner-Accounting Notes, 1961
04 Bank Statements, 1959
05 Balance Sheets, 1961
06 Fiscal Year 1961, Special Account Receipts
07 Operating Account
08 Bank Statements, 1962
09 1963-1964
10 Fiscal Year, 1964
11 Subscription Orders, 1966
Checkbook, 1968-1969
AMI Secretary's Files
120 01 Congratulations Letter from Hoffman Nickerson, 1960
02 Correspondence [Robert Watson, Personal], 1960 (Oct.)-1961 (June)
03 Treasurer Correspondence, 1961
04 Membership Committee, 1961
05 Secretary-Treasurer's Correspondence, 1961
06 Bills and Correspondence on Subscriptions, 1963
07 1964
08 1965
AMI Secretary-Treasurer's Records Bank Statements, 1965-1970
121 01 Bank Statements, 1965
02 1966 I of II
02 1966 II of II
03 1967
04 Special A/C, 1967
05 1968
06 Special A/C, 1968
07 1969-1970
AMI Secretary-Treasurers' Files, 1969-1971
122 01 Reports, 1969-1970
02 Incoming Correspondence, 1970
03 Outgoing Correspondence, 1970
04 New Members, 1970
05 Bills, 1970
06 Bank Statements, 1970, 1971
07 Nominations, 1970
08 Incoming Correspondence, 1971
09 Outgoing Correspondence, 1971
10 New Members, 1971
11 Bills, 1971
12 Reports and Minutes, 1971
13 Membership Meeting, 1971
14 Nominations and Elections, 1971
AMI Secretary-Treasurers' Correspondence and Reports, 1972-1974
123 01 New Members Lists, 1972
02 Annual Membership Meeting, 1972
03 Minutes and Reports, 1972
04 FICA, 1972
05 Bills, Receipts, 1972
06 Bank Statements, 1972
07 Outgoing Correspondence, 1972
08 Incoming Correspondence, 1972
09 Nominating Committee, 1973
10 New Members, 1973
11 Annual Membership Meeting, 1973
12 Minutes and Reports, 1973
13 FICA
14 IRS
15 Bills, Receipts, 1973
16 Bank Statements, 1973
17 Correspondence (Incoming), 1973
18 (Outgoing), 1973
19 IRS, 1974
20 FICA, 1974
21 Minutes and Reports, 1974
22 New Members Lists, 1974
23 Nominations Committee, 1974
AMI Secretary-Treasurer's Files Reports, 1974-1998
124 01 Significant Documents, 1972-1974
02 Annual Membership Meeting, 1974
03 Incoming Correspondence, 1974
04 Bank Statements, 1974
05 Bills/Receipts, 1974
06 Outgoing Correspondence, 1974 Bills and Receipts, 1975
07 Membership Additions & Deletions, 1975
08 Annual Membership Meeting, 1975
09 Bank Statements, 1975
10 Reports, 1974-1975
11 Financial Records, 1975-1976
12 Suspense
13 Report, 1976
14 Financial Records, 1977
15 1978
16 1979
17 Finance Committee, 1982-1984
18 Financial Records, 1980-1984
19 Treasurer's Report, 1998
AMI Secretary-Treasurer's Official and General Correspondence Files,
1975-1995
125 01 General Correspondence, 1975-1976
02 Official Correspondence, 1975-1977
03 Financial Reports, 1976-1982
04 Secretary-Treasurers' Official Correspondence, 1978-1985
05 Secretary's Correspondence, 1980-1989
06 Interim Budget, 1985
Series VI: Printed Material, 1956-2006 (Box 126-128)
AMI Military Affairs Photographs, Maps, and Illustrations
126 01 Illustrations
02 U.S. Map Items
03 Maps: Foreign
04 "Careless Talk" and "5th War Loan" World War II Poster
05 Maps World War and Rank Illustrations
06 Obituaries
07 Obituaries
08 Franklin Mint Project
SMH Directories, Programs, Newsletters
127 01 AMI/SMH Membership Directories, 1981, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000,
and 2002
SMH Programs and Newsletters
128 01 Programs, Annual Meeting Etc., 1996-2004
02 Headquarters Gazettes, 1989-2004
Series VII: Photographs, ca 1933-2006 (Box 129)
AMI & Military Affairs Photographs
129 01 Presidents
02 Portraits
03 Military Affairs Photos
04 Pictures, U.S. Navy, 1968
05 Gondos Dinner
06 AMI Officers, 1973
07 Canada Photos
08 Correspondence with Velimir Viksu
09 Quantico, Afternoon Photos, 1992 (Apr. 11)
10 Conference Photos, 1998
11 1999
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