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SOURCE: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/20/2023
Historians Among New Electees to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Congratulations to Jean Allman, Marcia Chatelain, Linda Colley, Nelson Lichtenstein, Ann M. McGrath, Tiya Miles, and Steven J. Zipperstein on their election to the AAAS in 2023.
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SOURCE: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
4/8/2023
Historians Prominent Among 2023 Guggenheim Winners
Congratulations to all the recipients of th 2023 awards and grants.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
2/28/2023
Nine Historians Awarded Dan David Prize
In 2021 the David Dan Prize adopted an explicit focus on supporting and honoring contributions to historical understanding. Nine scholars have received awards of $300,000 to advance their work.
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12/1/2022
Tiya Miles is the Winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize
"All that She Carried" was a unanimous choice of the prestigious prize's jurors.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
10/24/2022
The AHA Announces 2022 Prize Winners
Congratulations to this years honorees for publication, teaching, mentoring and service to the profession.
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SOURCE: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
4/8/2022
Historians Among 2022 Guggenheim Awardees
"On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals."
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SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
4/9/2022
The OAH Announces Annual Prize Winners
The Organization of American Historians has released its 2022 honorees for scholarship, service, and contributions to history.
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SOURCE: TIME
3/1/2022
Winners Announced for Dan David Prize, a Mac Arthur-Style Grant for Historians
by Gillian Brockell
The Dan David Prize has defined its focus as supporting historians, in recognition of the public significance of historical knowledge and the political and institutional attacks on the discipline and its practitioners.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
10/18/2021
AHA Announces 2021 Prize Winners
HNN congratulates the winners of the AHA's awards for publication, teaching, and service to the profession.
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SOURCE: Society of American Historians
5/10/2021
Society of American Historians Announces 2021 Prize Winners
Lonnie G. Bunch III, Christopher Tomlins, Brianna Nofil and Afia Atakora are recognized by the Society of American Historians for their achievements in the last year.
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SOURCE: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4/22/2021
Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members: New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Historians are represented among the 2020 electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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SOURCE: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
4/8/2021
2021 Winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship are Announced
Historians are prominently represented among the just-announced winners of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships for 2021.
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SOURCE: Yale University
12/9/2020
2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
11/4/2020
2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced
As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
10/19/2020
American Historical Association Announces 2020 Prize Winners
This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members.
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SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
10/15/2020
UHA Announces Award Winners
The Urban History Association announces its annual awards for best book, best journal article, and best dissertation.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/22/2020
Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize
Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”
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SOURCE: Wolfson History Prize
6/15/2020
David Abulafia’s ‘The Boundless Sea’ wins Wolfson History Prize 2020
David Abulafia's book tells the global history of humanity through its relationship to the oceans.
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SOURCE: Society of Civil War Historians
6/4/2020
Thomas J. Brown is 2020 Winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award
Thomas J. Brown's book on the memorialization of the Civil War and American attitudes toward militarization has been honored with the Thomas Watson Brown Book Award.
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SOURCE: University of Illinois Press
5/27/2020
Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians
by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow
The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).
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