The Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee was established in January 1947 within the United States Army. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. In 1996, it was made a subcommittee of the Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee. Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee was chartered on 24 Jan 1996 to provide advice to the United States Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military
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 andecedents 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 United States Army War College is a United States Army school located in Carlisle Pennsylvania, on the 500 acre (2 km² campus of the historic Carlisle The Center of Military History (CMH is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army.
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 United States Secretary of the Army is a civilian office within the Department of Defense with statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States "USMA" redirects here For other uses see USMA (disambiguation The United States Military Academy (also known as USMA, The United States Army War College is a United States Army school located in Carlisle Pennsylvania, on the 500 acre (2 km² campus of the historic Carlisle The Command and General Staff College ( C&GSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is a United States Army facility that functions as a Graduate school United States Army Training and Doctrine Command ( TRADOC) is an army command of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Monroe, Virginia The committee meets annually to review and to advise on the current and future plans of the United States Army Center of Military History. The Center of Military History (CMH is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army.
Chairmen
The following, listed in chronological order, have served as chairmen of the committee. In those case 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 M. Wriston, 1955-1956
- Elmer Ellis, 1957-1958
- Fred H. James Phinney Baxter III (1893-1975 was an American Historian, Educator and Academic. Henry Merritt Wriston ( July 4, 1889 &ndash1978 was a United States educator and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University Elmer Ellis was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri and first president of the University of Missouri System. Harrington, 1959-1961
- Oran J. Hale, 1961-1962
- Fred C. Cole, 1963-1967
- Walter C. Langsam, 1967-1972
- Otis A. Singetary, 1972-
Members
- Samuel F. Bemis, 1955-1958
- Charles B. Burdick, 1966-1971
- Edward M. Coffman, 1971-
- Harry L. Coles, 1975-
- Henry S. Commanger, 1943-1952
- Gordon A. Craig, 1953-1958
- Elmer Ellis, 1954-1956
- William H. Gordon Alexander Craig ( November 13, 1913 &ndash October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American historian of German, Swiss Elmer Ellis was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri and first president of the University of Missouri System. Emerson, 1960-1965
- James A. Field, Jr. , 1963-1968
- Douglas S. Freeman, 1947-1952
- Frank B. Douglas Southall Freeman, ( May 16, 1886 &ndash June 13, 1953) was an American journalist and historian Freidel, 1973-
- Oron J. Hale, 1958-1960, 1963
- E. Pendleton Herring, 1943-1952
- John D. E Pendleton Herring (October 1903-2004 was an American political scientist who served as Director of the Bureau of the Budget as Secretary of graduate education at Harvard University 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. SLA Marshall (full name Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall) ( July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a chief U May, 1964-1969
- Louis Morton, 1968-1972
- Peter Paret, 1971-
- Forrest C. Peter Paret ( April 13, 1924 - is American military, cultural & art Historian with a particular interest in Pogue, 1969-1974
- Earl Pomeroy, 1960-1965
- Charles P. Earl Pomeroy (born September 2 1952) is an American lawyer and politician from the U Roland, 1964-1969
- Theodore Ropp, 1961-1966
- E. Theodore Ropp (born 22 May 22 1911 in Hollywood Illinois - died 2 December 2000 in Durham North Carolina) was a professor at Duke University and recognized Dwight Salmon, 1947-1952
- Charles S. Snydor, 1950-1953
- Charles H. Taylor, 1947-1952
- Frank E. Charles Hart Taylor is an American Politician; a Republican, he represented North Carolina 's 11th congressional district Vandiver, 1969-1974
- Russell F. Weigley, 1975-
- Bell I. Russell F Weigley, PhD (1930–2004 was the Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Wiley, 1958-1963
- T. Harry Williams, 1955-1960
- C. Vann Woodward, 1957-1962
- Walter L. Thomas Harry Williams ( May 19, 1909 -- July 6, 1979) was an award-winning Historian at Louisiana State University in Comer Vann Woodward ( November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American Historian focusing primarily on Wright, 1947-1949
Source
- Richard W. Leopold, "Historians and the Federal Governmnet: 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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