New York Military Affairs Symposium
NYMAS meets at the New York Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmen's Club on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan
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| Abbreviation | NYMAS |
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| Formation | 1970's |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Purpose | NYMAS is devoted to increasing public knowledge, awareness, and understanding of the interrelationship of war, society, and culture through the presentation and dissemination of diverse scholarly viewpoints. |
| Headquarters | 115 East 34th Street, New York, NY, USA |
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Region served
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New York City |
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Membership
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120 |
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Official language
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English |
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President:
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Prof. David Gordon |
| Affiliations | Society for Military History |
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Staff
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8 Officers and 18 members of Board of Directors |
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Volunteers
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All officers are voluntary staff |
| Website | www |
The New York Military Affairs Symposium (NYMAS), is an independent, not for profit educational body dedicated to the preservation and furthering of military history in the city of New York. The membership includes scholars, active and retired military personnel, and concerned civilians. NYMAS is devoted to increasing public knowledge, awareness and understanding of military history, arms control, international relations, defense policy, disarmament, civil-military relations, international security, Veterans Affairs and the interrelationship of war, society, and culture through the presentation and dissemination of diverse scholarly viewpoints - with particular reference to the history of warfare involving the United States and of Americans at war.
NYMAS has it origins in the late 1970s, when some graduate students in military history from CUNY, members of the Arms Control Workshop at Columbia University, and a number of interested laymen began holding periodic informal study groups, at Columbia, the Loeb Student Center at New York University, the former CUNY Graduate Center on 42nd Street, and in private homes. On occasion, members were able to arrange for distinguished historians and other scholars to meet with the group, often over dinner.
In 1982 NYMAS was incorporated as a not-for-profit academic organization under the laws of the State of New York.
Since incorporation, NYMAS has hosted more than a thousand guests, including scholars working in many diverse disciplines, as well as journalists, graduate students, active and former military personnel, museum curators, peace activists, novelists, diplomats, political leaders, documentarians, and many more. Many guests have been well-established scholars or specialists in their fields, such as Sir Michael Howard, Gerhard Weinberg, Gary Sick, Geoffrey P. Megargee, Peter Paret, David Glantz, Morris Rossabi, Sir John Keegan, Thomas Fleming, Sir Jeremy Black, Gunther E. RothenbergEllen Schrecker, Sir Max Hastings, David Kahn, Susan Shwartz, Kevin Baker, Theodore Cook, and Christopher Duffy. Most, however, have been younger scholars, a number of whom have subsequently attained some measure of fame, such as James S. Corum,Ross Hassig, David Petraeus, Peter Mansoor, and Arden Bucholz, to note but a few.
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