Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee

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The Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee was established in January 1947 within the United States Army. In 1996, it was made a subcommittee of the Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee.

History

The Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee is the oldest of the historical advisory committees within the U.S. Department of Defense. Its antecedents were the very short-lived Advisory Board on Historical Work to the Army War College's Historical Section in 1928-1930 and, more directly, a group of three civilians and three officers, who met from May 1943 to 1946 to draft plans for the Army's history of the Second World War that led to the creation of what would become the United States Army Center of Military History.

The Secretary of the Army appoints members, which includes civilian scholars as well as those who represent the United States Military Academy, the Army War College, the Command and General Staff College, and the Training and Doctrine Command. The committee meets annually to review and to advise on the current and future plans of the United States Army Center of Military History.

Chairmen

The following, listed in chronological order, have served as chairmen of the committee. In those cases where individuals have also served as individual members, their names and dates are also shown separately for that service in the alphabetical list of members:

James Phinney Baxter III, 1943–1955
Henry Wriston, 1955–1956
Elmer Ellis, 1957–1958
Fred H. Harrington, 1959–1961
Oran J. Hale, 1961–1962
Fred C. Cole, 1963–1967
Walter C. Langsam, 1967–1972
Otis A. Singetary, 1972-
Jon T. Sumida Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine , 2003–2005

Members

Samuel Flagg Bemis, 1955–1958
Charles B. Burdick, 1966–1971
Edward M. Coffman, 1971-
Harry L. Coles, 1975-
Henry Steele Commager, 1943–1952
Gordon A. Craig, 1953–1958
Elmer Ellis, 1954–1956
William H. Emerson, 1960–1965
James A. Field, Jr., 1963–1968
Douglas S. Freeman, 1947–1952
Frank Freidel, 1973-
Oron J. Hale, 1958–1960, 1963
E. Pendleton Herring, 1943–1952
John D. Hicks, 1947–1954
W. Stull Holt, 1955–1960
William T. Hutchinson, 1947–1956
Richard W. Leopold, 1966–1971
S. L. A. Marshall, 1947–1954
Ernest R. May, 1964–1969
Louis Morton, 1968–1972
Peter Paret, 1971-
Forrest C. Pogue, 1969–1974
Earl S. Pomeroy, 1960–1965
Charles P. Roland, 1964–1969
Theodore Ropp, 1961–1966
E. Dwight Salmon, 1947–1952
Charles S. Snydor, 1950–1953
Charles H. Taylor, 1947–1952
Frank E. Vandiver, 1969–1974
Russell F. Weigley, 1975-
Bell I. Wiley, 1958–1963
T. Harry Williams, 1955–1960^[1]
C. Vann Woodward, 1957–1962
Walter L. Wright, 1947–1949
James Carafano, ?-

Sources

Richard W. Leopold, "Historians and the Federal Government: Historical Advisory Committees: State, Defense, and the Atomic Energy Commission," The Pacific Historical Review, vol. 44, No. 3. (Aug 1975), pp. 373–385.

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References

↑ Elizabeth A. Brennan & Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (Oryx Press, 1999): 37.

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[1] Elizabeth A. Brennan & Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (Oryx Press, 1999): 37.

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