Cold War Essay Contest

Bradley Coleman Announcement
Subject Fields
Diplomacy and International Relations, Military History, World History / Studies

For the fifteenth consecutive year, the John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., is pleased to announce that it will award prizes for the best-unpublished papers on Cold War military history. The contest recognizes and encourages innovative scholarship on Cold War subjects.

 

Any aspect of the Cold War (1945-1991) era is eligible, including papers on military strategy, plans, and operations; the relationship between the armed forces and society; international security affairs; and the connections between Cold War military history and contemporary geopolitical challenges. This year, having recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, 1949-2019), the Adams Center is especially interested in essays concerning Cold War alliances.

 

Prizes: First place will earn a plaque and a cash award of $2,000; second place, $1,000 and a plaque; and third place, $500 and a plaque.

 

Procedures: Writers should send their entry electronically to the Adams Center at the Virginia Military Institute by Friday, November 15, 2019. Please make your submission as a MS Word document and limit your essay to a maximum of 7,500 words (minimum 4,000 words) of double-spaced text, exclusive of documentation and bibliography. A panel of judges will examine all papers; the Adams Center director will announce the winners in late 2019. The Journal of Military History will consider prize-winning essays for publication.

 

Submissions to:

 

adamscenter@vmi.edu

 

Questions to:

 

Dr. Bradley Lynn Coleman

Director, John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis

Department of History

Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, VA 24450

colemanbl@vmi.edu

540-464-7447

 

or

 

Ms. Deneise Shafer

Administrative Assistant

shaferdp@vmi.edu

540-464-7338

Fax: 540-464-7246

 

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Contact Information

Dr. Bradley Lynn Coleman

Director, John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis

Department of History

Virginia Military Institute

Lexington, VA 24450

colemanbl@vmi.edu

540-464-7447

Contact Email
colemanbl@vmi.edu