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Military Studies
List Serves, RSS Feeds, Blogs and Academic (and Military) History-related Societies
MilitaryHistory-related listeserves, RSS Feeds, Blogs, Social Media and professional societies seek to link the scholar to other researchers, the media and research institutions who share an interest in a common topic.
- Social Media Guides
- List Serves,
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Academic (and Military) History Societies-related sites represent only a few of the many of such websites available
Social Media Guides
U.S. Army Social Media Handbook (Office of the Chief of Public Affairs - January 2011)
New Media and the Air Force (Air Force Public Affairs Agency Emrging Technology Division)
"pamphlet from the Air Force Public Affairs Agency, Emerging Technology Division - "should be used as an instructional guide. It is not to be construed as official guidance, endorsement of products or sites listed, nor is it policy."
List Serves
"a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine"
"H-War is a moderated electronic discussion group and bulletin board for scholars, librarians, and teachers in the field of military history and is part of the H-Net family of LISTSERV discussion lists."
http://www.h-net.org/~war/about.html
"a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Minerva is the H-Net discussion network devoted to the study of women and war and women in the military, worldwide and in all historical areas. We are affiliated with the Minerva Center, a non-profit educational foundation."
"H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Our edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public."
RSS Feeds
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RSS Feeds for Military and Government Researchers (hosted by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School)
Blogs and Social Media
Blogs
These Blog and Independantly-affilitated websites represent only a few military-history-related listings that can serve as an interesting source of alternative source of news and information on current events and policy. Most military history blogs represent individual efforts at blogging and are far too numerous to list.
Government Military History Blogs
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Military History-related Blogs Tips for locating realted blogs suggest: "With Google Blog Search you can search blogs by keywords"
"A directory listing of military blogs, war blogs, military spouse blogs, military family blogs, military history blogs, military tech blogs and other blogs from the military blogosphere.provides hints on searching for blogs on the Internet."
"Blog Them Out of the Stone Age - Toward a Broader vision oof Military History"
Social Media
- The U.S. Navy and Social Media (by way of the Navy Visual News Service (NVNS) page)
- U.S. Air Force Live - The Official Blog of the United States Air Force
- U.S. Marine Corps Facebook
Academic (and Military) History-related societies
These society listings represent only a few military-history-related societies that have either an academic or government connection
- The Correlates of War Project "The original and continuing goal of the project has been the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war. ..the project began its work by assembling a more accurate data set on the incidence and extent of inter-state and extra-systemic war in the post-Napoleonic period.
- Scholarly Societies Project (hosted by the University of Waterloo Electronic Library)
"facilitating access to information about scholarly societies across the world since 1994" linking to scholarily societies across time and space.
- The Society for Military History - "The intellectual home for military historians worldwide"
"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, the Society is devoted to stimulating and advancing the study of military history. Its membership (today more than 2300) has included many of the nation's most prominent scholars, soldiers, and citizens interested in military history."
"De Re Militari is an international scholarly association established to foster and develop interest in the study of military affairs and warfare in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Our society publishes the Journal of Medieval Military History and organizes academic conferences focusing on medieval warfare."
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The Society of Ancient Military Historians (hosted by the History Department of Western Illinois University)
"The Society of Ancient Military Historians is an organization dedicated to the promotion of the study of warfare in the Ancient World. Members sponsor and contribute to the publication of our newsletter, Res Militares. Our leadership works with and within the American Philological Association to arrange contact between our members and within the larger academic community."
"The American Historical Association (AHA) was founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 to serve the broad field of history. It encompasses every historical period and geographical area and serves professional historians in all areas of employment."
"The Organization of American Historians is the largest learned society devoted to the study of American history. Since its founding in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the OAH has promoted the study and teaching of the American past through its many activities."
"AASLH began in 1904, under the wing of the American Historical Association. Then called the Conference of State and Local Historical Societies, AASLH broke out on its own in December of 1940 to become the American Association for State and Local History.."
