Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee

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 , 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, 1955–1960Elizabeth A. Brennan & Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (Oryx Press, 1999): 37. 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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