20 August 2024
Welcome back to our National Maritime Historical Society members and friends who share a love for naval history!
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Smile! Thursday is the 112th birthday of the US Navy’s Dental Corps!
For this summer edition of Tuesday Tidings we are turning to the Western Naval History Association to carry the football; the Association gave us permission to link to its most recent newsletter. Click HERE for an overview of its annual conference held back in February, three book reviews, and a feature on the Russo-Japanese War. Most important: save the dates 31 January through 2 February 2025 for the next WNHA gathering.
Congratulations to Rear Adm. Darryl L. Walker, who took the helm as president of the Naval War College. Walker will be relieving Rear Adm Peter Garvin, who, after being promoted to vice admiral, will preside over the National Defense University. The below feature incorporates content from the Naval War College’s press release with biographical background on the incoming president.
Tuesday Tidings is compiled by Dr. David F. Winkler and Jessie Henderson as a benefit for members of the National Maritime Historical Society and friends of naval history.
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Naval War College Welcomes 59th President | |
Newport, RI – Rear Adm. Darryl L. Walker relieved Rear Adm. Peter A. Garvin as the president of the US Naval War College (NWC) during a change of command ceremony held onboard Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, 9 August. US Navy Photo by Kristopher Burris | |
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro presided over the change of command ceremony that installed Rear Adm. Darryl L. Walker as the 59th president of the Naval War College.
Walker, a 2002 graduate of the college, would state: “I am truly honored and humbled to return to this great institution, this time not as a student, but instead as its 59th president,” Walker’s path to the preside over the world’s oldest graduate-level institution dedicated to war studies might be considered unconventional. Darryl “D-Day” Walker enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1985 as an air traffic controller. He received his Navy commission through the Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, and was designated a Naval Flight Officer in 1992. He is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Throughout his service, Walker fulfilled various operational tours, including: Commander and Executive Officer of VAQ-139, deployed onboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), as well as the Commodore and Deputy Commodore of the Electronic Attack Wing United States Pacific Fleet, flying the EA-18G Growler. He has amassed an impressive 3900 flight hours and 696 carrier-arrested landings throughout his career. His shore tours include: S-3B NATOPS Evaluator; Viking Community Assignments Officer; Deputy Director, PERS-43; NAE Diversity Director; Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group; Chief of Staff to the Chief Information Officer, Secretary of Defense; Executive Assistant to the 11th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Executive Assistant to the 32nd Chief of Naval Operations. As a Flag Officer, Walker served as the Deputy Director of Operations (J-3), US Cyber Command, and currently serves as the Deputy Commander of Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber (Navy), United States TENTH Fleet based at Fort George Meade, Maryland.
Walker relieved Rear Adm. Peter A. Garvin, who only served as president for a year. Garvin essentially had been promoted out of the job, having been nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of vice admiral, with assignment as president, National Defense University, Washington, DC.
Yet as indicated by the praise given to Gavin in his remarks by Secretary of the Navy Del Toro, the departing president’s tour was consequential. In his remarks, Garvin highlighted the ways NWC continuously applies the original vision of its founder and first president, Rear Adm. Stephen B. Luce, to contemporary and future challenges, stating: “What we face today is increasingly more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. We need to be fluent and agile from seabed to space and everywhere in between.”
During Garvin’s short tenure the Naval War College introduced a new Perspectives on Modern War (PMW) course. PMW was developed and introduced to help students synthesize information across all core and elective courses, meaningfully connecting their academic and operational experiences with current and emerging security issues. Under Garvin’s watch the college also conducted several research and analysis efforts, including two Chief of Naval Operations Futures wargames, planning assistance to US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) following the October 2023 Hamas attacks against Israel, and the largest, most complex global series wargame ever conducted in support of US Pacific Fleet (PACFLT).
In addition, Garvin’s institution hosted the 2023 International Seapower Symposium (ISS), which brought together 174 delegates from 91 countries, including 75 international heads of navies, to discuss global maritime challenges and the solutions needed to address them. The Naval War College also co-hosted the first ever Indo-American War College Conference alongside the Indian Naval War College in Goa, India, which brought together more than 120 participants from 17 countries, including 7 of the last 11 Indian Chiefs of the Naval Staff.
“The Naval War College is a critical component of the Navy’s effort to facilitate maritime statecraft and enhance strategic relationships,” observed Garvin. “The impact and influence of this institution is real, it is tangible and I dare say, indispensable.” Now under Rear Admiral Walker’s stewardship, the Naval War College is well situated to continue to serve the nation and its navy.
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The Society for Military History
Distinguished Book Awards for 2025
Background: The Society for Military History is soliciting nominations for its annual Distinguished Book Awards for 2025. Established in 1933, the Society is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership (today more than 2,600) includes many of the most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history. The Society encourages research and publication across the whole range of military history (ancient, medieval, and modern, including related popular studies). The Society publishes The Journal of Military History, the leading international scholarly journal of military history.
The Distinguished Book Awards: For the 2025 awards, books published (copyright date) in 2023 and 2024 are eligible. Works previously nominated for the Society’s book awards may be resubmitted provided they were published in 2023. Nominated books should be assigned to one of the following prize categories:
Distinguished Book (two awards)
- Edited and reference works contain collections of information, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, handbooks, and diagnostic manuals.
- Biography and memoirs—works that examine the life of a single individual or the lives of multiple individuals, or first-person accounts of lived experiences, in the context of war and/or the military
- First book—works that represent a single author’s first monograph)
The committee will make its selections for awards by January 30, 2025. The Society will give the awards at its annual meeting in Mobile, Alabama on 27–30 March 2025. The author of each prize-winning book will receive recognition at the Society’s annual awards presentation, an award plaque, and a $1,000 prize.
The committee must receive books for consideration for the 2025 awards by 7 October 2024.
Publishers must follow this process for each volume they intend to submit:
Please send a copy of each book for consideration with a letter specifying consideration for the SMH Book Awards to each committee member at the addresses listed below. Books must be submitted in physical copy, and electronic versions will not be considered. The committee recognizes the expense to authors and publishers associated with submitting five copies of each nominated book and therefore encourages serious submissions only. Please note that books will not be returned and that only award winners will be notified of selection.
At the discretion of the committee, submissions which are received after 7 October 2024 may be deferred for consideration in the 2026 awards.
Sincerely,
Debra J. Sheffer, PhD
Chair SMH Book Awards Committee
Email: debra.sheffer@park.edu
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SMH 2025 Book Awards
Committee Member Addresses
Marion Dorsey, PhD
Department of History
University of New Hampshire
14 Fogg Drive
Durham, NH 03824
Ian Beckett, PhD
School of History
University of Kent, Canterbury
Tides, Trewelloe Road, Praa Sands, Penzance
Cornwall, TR20 9SU, UK
Tarak Barkawi, PhD
Department of Political Science
Johns Hopkins University
1102 Bryn Mawr Road
Baltimore, MD 21210
Matthew Neufeld, PhD
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
Room 619, Arts Tower
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A5
Canada
Debra Sheffer, PhD
Park University
9002 N. Camden Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64154
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The Society for Military History announces a call for papers for its 90th Annual Meeting in Mobile, Alabama, 27–30 March 2025, at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and the
Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel.
The Program Committee’s objective is to create a slate of panels that represent the breadth of expertise and interests as well as the overall diversity of the Society’s wide-ranging membership. Individual paper and panel proposals on all facets of military history broadly defined will be considered for inclusion. Members in the academic community, the armed forces and governmental agencies, museums and archives, and independent scholars, as well as international members, are encouraged to participate.
Priority will be given to individual paper and panel submissions that highlight the presentation of original research, new interpretations, topics of immediate interest to our membership, and cutting-edge trends and subject matter. Submission of roundtables is encouraged, but preference will be given to panels that present new, original research.
All submissions will be judged on their merit using the above criteria.
Submission Instructions:
Individual paper proposals must include a 250-word abstract of the paper, and a one-page vita with contact information and email address. If selected, individual papers will be assigned by the program committee to an appropriate panel with a chair/commentator.
Panel proposals must include a panel title and 250-word abstract summarizing the theme of the panel; paper titles and a 250-word abstract for each paper proposed; and a one-page curriculum vitae for each panelist (including the chair and commentator) that includes institutional affiliation, email address, and other contact information.
Roundtable proposals must include a roundtable title, the full name and institutional affiliation of each participant, a 250-word abstract summarizing the roundtable’s themes and significance, and a one-page curriculum vitae for each participant.
Members who wish to volunteer to serve as chairs and commentators should send a one-page curriculum vitae.
Send all materials to the Program Committee Chair before 18 October 2024 at smhconferences@gmail.com.
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For The Trafalgar Chronicle
Publication Date: FALL 2025
Theme: Naval Leadership in the Georgian Era
For the 2025 edition of The Trafalgar Chronicle, the editors seek carefully researched, scholarly articles on “Naval Leadership in the Georgian Era.” We invite essays that provide examples of exemplary and questionable leadership in the predominant navies of the Georgian maritime era (1714–1837). We are interested to know about unique and far-reaching ways in which naval officers and administrators made crucial decisions and took significant actions affecting their futures, men, fleets, enemies, combat tactics and strategies, ships, policies and regulations, and naval doctrine itself. Additional topics: We also seek general-interest articles with unique perspectives on the maritime and naval history of the Georgian era. We invite biographical portraits, articles about battles at sea, maritime economics, exploration of foreign shores, foreign relations, politics, etc. We also welcome well-documented reports on preservation efforts regarding the artifacts, graves, memorials, and monuments of the Nelson era. Proposal Submission Guidelines: Please submit a proposal/abstract of no more than 500 words and a paragraph about your background (a biographical sketch). Proposals are due by 1 September 2024. Applicants will be notified of acceptance status by 1 October 2024. Submit all proposals and inquiries to tc.editor@1805Club.org.
Detailed author guidelines are available upon request. Article Guidelines: Articles should be 3,000 to 5,000 words long in MSWORD (unprotected) following the New Oxford Style Manual. Please include three to six high-resolution illustrations, each in a separate file (jpeg, pdf, or tiff). Articles are due 1 February 2025, at which point they will be edited and, in some cases, submitted to peer review. Articles will be returned to authors for revisions by 1 April 2025.
Revisions are due by 1 May 2025. Publication will be Fall/Autumn 2025. While we do not pay our contributors, each author will receive a copy of The Trafalgar Chronicle upon publication. Non-members of the 1805 Club will receive a free one-year membership. All authors will also receive a PDF of their published article for their portfolio. Authors retain copyright of their articles. Our Contributors: We welcome articles from 1805 Club members and anyone with an interest in the history of the Georgian Navy and other navies of the period. Our articles have come from writers of varied backgrounds: historians, journalists, university students, military personnel, preservationists, and novelists. Contact tc.editor@1805Club.org for additional information. The Trafalgar Chronicle is the scholarly flagship publication of the 1805 Club, a charity registered in England and Wales (number1202272) with an international membership of scholars and enthusiasts of the Georgian maritime era. The 1805 Club takes its name from the iconic Battle of Trafalgar that gave Nelson his place in history and confirmed the role of the Royal Navy in asserting Britain’s sea power. Seaforth Publishing is our publisher.
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UPCOMING NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY GATHERINGS | |
16–19 September 2024: Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium, USS Midway, San Diego
19 September 2024: Navy Memorial Lone Sailor Dinner, Washington, DC
28 September 2024: Coast Guard Ball, National Harbor, MD
16 October 2024: USS Constitution Museum Salute to Service Gala, Boston, MD
19 October 2024: US Navy Birthday Ball, Arlington VA
24 October 2024: National Maritime Historical Society Annual Awards Dinner, New York, NY
1 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball, Albany, GA
2 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball; Orlando, Fl.
2 November 2024: Marine Birthday Ball, San Francisco, CA
9 November 2024: Steamship Historical Society of America Annual Meeting, Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA
31 January–2 February 2025: Western Naval History Association Symposium (WNHA), San Diego. Ca.
27–30 March 2025: Society for Military History (SMH) Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL
9–11 April 2025: Council of American Maritime Museums Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL
24–25 May 2025: Canadian Nautical Research Society Annual Conference Port Hope,
Ontario
18–19 September 2025: McMullen Naval History Symposium US Naval Academy
24–28 September 2025: Historic Naval Ship Association (HNSA) Symposium/12th Maritime Heritage Conference, Buffalo, NY
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