FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABC-CLIO Announces Winners of the Spencer Tucker Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Military History and the Society for
Military History Research Grants
Santa Barbara, CA — May 8, 2007 — ABC-CLIO, in support of advancing the discipline of military history at the middle and high school level, is proud to announce that Dennis Showalter is the recipient of the Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History. Dr. Showalter is a professor of history at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1991-1993 and president of the Society for Military History from 1997-2001.
The Spencer Tucker Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Military History was presented to Mr. Showalter by Mr. Tucker and Becky Snyder, President of ABC-CLIO, on Thursday, April 19, at the Society for Military History Annual Conference in Frederick, MD.
"It is gratifying for us to offer this award as inspiration to military history scholars who engage in activities which enhance the intellectual development of secondary school history teachers and students and help build bridges between university and secondary school history teachers," stated Ms. Snyder.
A Fulbright scholar, Spencer Tucker was a professor of history at Texas Christian University and served as an intelligence analyst and desk officer at the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. He held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute until his retirement from teaching in 2003.
ABC-CLIO is also pleased to announce that Timothy Orr and Jonathan White have each been awarded an ABC-CLIO/Society for Military History Research Grant. The $500 grants are designed to support research in the area of military history and preference is given to applicants with specific research needs, such as the completion of a project or completion of a discrete segment thereof.
Timothy Orr is a Ph.D. candidate at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on examining the military mobilization of six U.S. cities to explain how each city came to raise and equip Union army regiments during the American Civil War.
Jonathan White is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on treason, loyalty, and nationalism in the North during the American Civil War.
The research grants were presented on April 20, 2007, at the awards luncheon during the Society for Military History's Annual Conference in Frederick, MD.
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About the Society for Military History (SMH)
Established in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, renamed in 1939 the American Military Institute, and renamed again in 1990 the Society for Military History, SMH is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership (today more than 2,300) has included many of the nation's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history.