prizes

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• 5/21/2020
  

  Kenneth Pomeranz wins 2021 Toynbee Prize

  Kenneth Pomeranz's work on global economic history has been recognized for driving new understanding of the history of global exchange and sparked global collaboration among historians. 

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• SOURCE: Stanton Foundation
  4/20/2020
  

  A Prize Contest: Applying History to Clarify the COVID-19 Challenge

  The Stanton Foundation sponsors a weekly award for published essays that "illuminate current challenges and policy choices by analyzing the historical record, especially precedents and analogues."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/18/2020
  

  Bancroft Prize Goes to Books on Emancipation and Urban Renewal

  The scholars Joseph P. Reidy and Lizabeth Cohen have won the prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/4/19
  

  AAIHS Announces Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

  Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history published by an AAIHS member in 2018.

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• SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
  4-13-18
  

  OAH announces prize winners

  Among the winners: Linda Kerber.

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• SOURCE: Wilson Center
  11-5-13
  

  HAPP Digital Archive Wins the 2013 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History

  The prize will be awarded at the AHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

• SOURCE: Clemson News
  8-14-13
  

  Clemson's Roger Grant receives book award

  CLEMSON — Clemson University history professor Roger Grant is the bronze winner of ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Award for history. He won the accolade for his book "Railroads and the American People," a social history of the impact of railroads on American life, published in 2012 by Indiana University Press.“How the railroad has affected people has long intrigued me,” said Grant. “This book has allowed me the opportunity to explore that fascinating relationship.”The ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards is judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from around the country. There were 1,300 entries from more than 600 publishers and 248 winners were selected from 62 categories. Grant was the bronze winner in the genre of history....

• SOURCE: HNN staff
  7-19-13
  

  Stephen Kantrowitz, Sydney Nathans, and Brett Rushforth finalists for 2013 Douglass book prize

  The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announced on Thursday the finalists for the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded to books dedicated to African American history.This year's finalists are Stephen Kantrowitz's More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 (Penguin), Sydney Nathans's To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker (Harvard) , and Brett Rushforth's Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous & Atlantic Slaveries in New France (University of North Carolina).Stephen Kantrowitz is professor of history and director of graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nathans is professor emeritus of history at Duke, and Brett Rushforth is associate professor of history and director of graduate studies at William & Mary.The winner will be announced in the fall, and the award will be presented in New York City in February.

• SOURCE: WaPo
  4-18-13
  

  Robert Caro wins $10,000 Mark Lynton History prize

  NEW YORK — Historian and author Robert Caro has won yet another award.Caro’s latest Lyndon Johnson book, “The Passage of Power,” has received the Mark Lynton History prize. Caro, whose many honors during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, will receive $10,000....

• SOURCE: NYT
  2-20-13
  

  Robert Caro wins N-YHS American History Book Prize

  Robert Caro will add yet another item to his groaning literary trophy cabinet in April when he collects the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize...