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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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• 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: American Council of Learned Societies
  5/19/2020
  

  Historians Named Among Mellon/ACLS Community College Fellows

  Five history professors at two-year institutions have been recognized for their vital contributions to scholarship, teaching, and their communities.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/16/2020
  

  Award for NC Historian’s Book about Mississippi City

  A Los Angeles cultural and publishing nonprofit is giving its 10th annual book award to a University of North Carolina historian’s account of civil rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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• SOURCE: University of Rochester
  5/13/2020
  

  Theodore Brown receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American Association for the History of Medicine

  Brown's history of the World Health Organization stresses that international politics have left the agency without the power it needs to battle a pandemic like Covid-19. 

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association
  4/30/2020
  

  2020 AHA RESEARCH GRANT WINNERS

  The American Historical Association recently announced 37 winners of its annual research grants. 

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• SOURCE: iBerkshires.com
  4/28/2020
  

  MCLA History Professor Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

  Amanda Kleintop, an assistant professor of history at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her continuing research.

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• SOURCE: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  4/24/2020
  

  Historians Among New 2020 Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  HNN salutes historians newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• SOURCE: Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  4/7/2020
  

  SHGAPE Prizes 2020

  by Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  Andrew Huebner, Caroline Grego, Alana Toulin and Mark C. Boxell are winners of annual prizes from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 

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• SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
  4/6/2020
  

  OAH Announces Annual Awards

  The Organization of American Historians has announced the winners of its annual prizes for scholarship and service. 

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• SOURCE: Crain's Cleveland Business
  3/30/2020
  

  And The Winners of the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are ...

  Henry Louis Gates Jr., who chairs the Anisfield-Wolf jury, said in a statement that the winners "bring us fresh insights on race and diversity."

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  10/7/19
  

  American Historical Association Announces 2019 Prize Winners

  Dozens of historians will be recognized for their exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects.

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• SOURCE: Midas
  Accessed 6/20/19
  

  Mary Fulbrook Wins Wolfson History Prize 2019 for Revelatory Holocaust Study Reckonings

  Reckonings is an affecting study of the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the extent to which Nazi persecutors were brought to account, and how myths of justice being done developed in the years following the Second World War.