The Second World War Research Group North America

Join us 10 Apr 2026 to discuss Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the #SWW (@FordhamPress) with @VSotvedt @riehle_kevin @EFriot @essbeecastro & others. Pre-register here: shsu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…. More here: fordhampress.com/shots-in-the-d…

Many congratulations to John Kinder, who workshopped a chapter of his newly award-winning book from @UChcagoPress, World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age, with our SWWRGNA reading group. More on the book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Allison Taylor will defend her Master's thesis, titled "Carrier vs Carrier: An American Sailors' Perspective of the Pacific War", on March 30 at 1:00 PM in Calvin 308.

Job hunting and attending SMH 2026? Come get help with your CV! Bring your CV & cover letter to ‘Navigating the Job Market III: USAJOBS Workshop’ on Fri 27, 3:30–5 PM. Learn to trim your CV to 2 pages, write strong cover letters & get tips for USAJOBS applications.

Forthcoming this August from SWWRGNA member and presenter Stephen A. Bourque:

Shortlisted for the SAHR Templer Medal 'An impressive study of how the cultural legacy of the Great War shaped the attitudes of wartime soldiers in the Second World War.' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/

If you see SWWRGNA graduate fellow @LizGard02128121 today, congratulate her on passing her PhD defense on "The Libyan Arab Force: An indigenous Senussi volunteer force in North Africa from 1940-1943" @DSD_Kings. Congratulations, Liz!! More on her here: kcl.ac.uk/people/elizabe…

Tremendous achievement for this young author. It is a great book & @TimPBouverie should be immensely proud of winning @DuffCooperPrize Also, his book title echoes state of Allies today!

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-30 Grant Golub’s Warriors in Washington: Henry Stimson, the US Army, and the Politics of American Power in World War II “showcasing how America’s interventionist foreign policy after World War II was not inevitable, but the product of committed internationalists like Stimson who remade the rules for warriors in Washington.” –Alex J. Marino wp.me/p2Insd-7Jc @ghgolub @Alex_J_Marino

🏅 CONGRATS! We’re proud to share that Misfire by Brian P. Farrell has been shortlisted for the 2025 Templar Medal and Chapple Prize by the Society for Army Historical Research: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639953/ #UPKansas #MilitaryHistory #AwardWinningBooks #HistoryMatters

Only 2 days left to send your paper proposal for the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) Annual Conference at King's College, London, October 11-13, 2026. A top-ranking forum for intelligence history & related subjects! See you there! 😎 #intel #history #research

Tune in tonight at 5:30 p.m. CT as we kick off the Patton: Man of War Symposium! Watch from the comfort of home as Nathan C. Jones and Mike Bell discuss "Patton's Shadow: The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory." Click here to access the livestream: bit.ly/4p2nV0t

The Jervis Forum Review 175 Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, Cahiers de l’été 1944. Édition établie, présentée et annotée par Laurence Badel “France’s future lay not in splendid isolation but in partnerships, with its European neighbors in the Common Market and with the United States in the construction of an Atlantic counterweight to Soviet power.” –Philip Nord wp.me/p2Insd-7IO

Thrilled to have been awarded a Vandervort prize for my recently published article "The Invention of the Kamikaze: Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military" by the Society for Military History, as one of the 2 best articles last year in the Journal of Military History!

Coming to The Briefing Room podcast on Wednesday I talk to historian @hannaediamond about her wonderful book Josephine Baker’s Secret War now out in paperback. Dont miss our conversation on this hero of WWII #wwii #wwiihistory #JosephineBaker #thebriefingroom #HannaDiamond

Tomorrow! Helen Fry in Conversation with Kevin Passmore on “A New History – The Maginot Line”. Kevin Passmore reveals the Maginot Line: a 1930s fortress of tunnels and defences, undone by strategy, not construction. Virtual event tickets here: bit.ly/4qtqfik

Yay! Submitted my draft manuscript to Bloomsbury Academic: 'The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War: Fields Into Factories' @BloomsburyAcad A way to go before publication, but will allow myself some modestly priced fizz tomorrow night.

#VendrediLecture "Les femmes dans la guerre 1914-1945" de Carol Mann aux éditions Pygmalion Ce livre explore la place et le rôle des femmes dans les conflits contemporains : combattantes, résistantes, soutiens logistiques ou figures politiques. 👉 24.30€ à la boutique du musée

Shortlisted for the SAHR Templer Medal. 'How the experience of the Malayan campaign of 1941-42 led to significant lessons for subsequent British development of special forces.' kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639953/

Thanks to everyone who joined us tonight for a good discussion on an exciting dissertation project!

Our next SWWRGNA reading group is tonight, Wed 4 March @ 7:30pm Eastern with Jack Emery (Texas Christian University) to discuss his piece, “Cultural Occupiers: The Monuments Men and Women in Japan.” Email for readings/links!