The latest addition to the Military History Foundation web site is a detailed proposal for summer seminars to answer the needs of non-military historians like Rice University Prof. Rebecca Goetz.
Phase I. The Military History Initiative
Although the ultimate objective is to create formally a free-standing Military History Foundation, in the short run, this is too much of a leap. It is better to build to that point in a series of steps.
A. The first step is to educate military historians in the basics of development, [...]
The latest addition to The Military History Foundation web site.
An email from Eliot A. Cohen, published here by permission:
Mark –
Tom Keaney [executive director of the Foreign Policy Institute at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University] passed on your manifesto — good for you! And here’s the SAIS contribution to the good cause. I’ve got the go ahead [...]
I’m getting started on the MHF strategic plan as and when I can find the time. I’ve found helpful Margo Wolanin’s four-point development overview, which I’ve placed on the MHF web site:
1. Identification and introduction – Who are the potential benefactors, and what are their interests; i.e., the programs they might wish to [...]
As a supporter pointed out to me in an email, by creating MHF I run the risk of courting resentment on the part of those who might feel that I am showing them up and/or those who might accuse me of hubris. I learned long ago that you cannot break with the status quo, [...]
One of the first things a nonprofit organization is supposed to do is to come up with a succinct mission statement. You’ll find ours here.
Met yesterday with Margo Wolanin, the development officer for the Ohio State College of Humanities. I sketched out my idea for The Military History Foundation (henceforth MHF) and briefly outlined the circumstances that made it necessary.
I intended our meeting to be just an information interview in which I would avail myself of her [...]
If the Society for Military History leadership won’t adopt a strategic plan to build the field, we may as well do it ourselves. For details, click the logo.
Flash presentation by Stephanie Wiseman
Casualty Count |
