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The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command. [1] The Institute of Heraldry remains within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army . [ 1 ]
The U.S. Army Military History Institute pre-dates the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center by over 30 years. Formed in 1967 as the Military History Research Collection, a branch of the U.S. Army War College Library, the institute became the primary repository for unofficial Army historical materials.
The proposal of establishing Army Institute of Military History (AIMH) was approved on 2 June 2017 by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and inaugurated AIMH on 28 July 2021.AIMH has been set up as a semi-autonomous research body with a broad outreach both within the civilian and military domains.
The Program is led by the United States Army Center of Military History, which creates the regulations and procedures for collecting, recording and regulating historical materials, and includes other organizations and individuals, including unit historians, the Army Heritage and Education Center and the Combat Studies Institute. [1] [2] [3]
Heraldic and other military symbols have been used by the U.S. Armed Forces and federal government agencies since the beginning of the American Revolution.However, there was no coordinated military heraldry program until 1919, when an office within the War Department General Staff was established to approve and coordinate coats of arms and insignia of army organizations.
The Advanced Training Committee was formed to explore and develop methods of infiltration and exfiltration. On 16 May 1969, the school was renamed the U.S. Army Institute for Military Assistance. The curriculum was expanded to provide training in high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) parachuting and SCUBA operations.
The Eye of the Army: A Photographic Exhibit. This is an interactive, educational CD-ROM that brings American history from the 1850s to the 1960s alive through images from the Military History Institute and artifacts from the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center. Defending the Long Road to Freedom
General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, U.S. Army Military History Institute, 2003. Rawlings Prize (Albemarle County Historical Society), 1999 and 2001. Governor's Fellowship (University of Virginia), 1995–1996.