Background
NYMAS has it origins in the late 1970s, when some graduate students in military history from CUNY, members of the Arms Control Workshiop 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.
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