List of history awards
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This list of history awards covers notable awards given to people, a group of people, or institutions, for their contribution to the study of history. It is organized by region. The entries name the prize and sponsoring organization, give notes on the purpose or criteria, and where available give the period in which the prize was awarded. Typically a prize is first awarded in the year after it is established, and applies to work published in the previous year.
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| Award | Sponsor | Notes | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Sacknoff" | Sacknoff Prize for Space History | SPACE 3.0 Foundation | Encourage original research by university students in the field of space history.{{cite web|url=https://spacehistory101.com/space-history-resources/sacknoff-prize/|title= Sacknoff Prize for Space History |date=2024-04-25|publisher=SPACE 3.0 Foundation|access-date=2024-04-25}} | since 2011 |
| data-sort-value="Adams" | Herbert Baxter Adams Prize | American Historical Association | Distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history{{cite web|url=http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/AdamsWinner.htm|title= Herbert Baxter Adams Prize|date=2008-01-11|publisher=American Historical Association|access-date=2008-04-28}} | since 1905 |
| data-sort-value="AJHA Book" | AJHA Book Award | American Journalism Historians Association | Best book in media history{{citation |access-date=2020-01-29 |url=https://ajha.wildapricot.org/book-award |title=Book of the Year Award |publisher=American Journalism Historians Association}} | |
| data-sort-value="AJHA Teaching" | AJHA Teaching Awards | American Journalism Historians Association | Excellence in teaching journalism and mass communication history{{citation |access-date=2020-01-29 |url=https://ajha.wildapricot.org/teaching-award |title=National Award for Excellence in Teaching |publisher=American Journalism Historians Association}} | |
| data-sort-value="Archaeological" | Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement | Archaeological Institute of America | Archaeology{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Archaeological Institute of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=480YAAAAYAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Archaeological Institute of America.}} | since 1965 |
| data-sort-value="Bancroft" | Bancroft Prize | Columbia University | Diplomacy or the history of the Americas{{citation |access-date=2020-01-29 |url=https://library.columbia.edu/about/awards/bancroft.html |title=The Bancroft Prizes |publisher=Columbia University Libraries }} | since 1948 |
| data-sort-value="Bauer" | K. Jack Bauer Award | North American Society for Oceanic History | Life-time contributions to the field of maritime history{{cite web| url=http://kellykathleenchave.wix.com/nasoh#!bauer-award-recipients/c1weq|title= K. Jack Bauer Award|publisher= North American Society for Oceanic History|access-date= 5 September 2015}} | |
| data-sort-value="Beer" | George Louis Beer Prize | American Historical Association | Best book in European international history from 1895 to the present | since 1923 |
| data-sort-value="Bentley" | Bentley Book Prize | World History Association | First awarded as the World History Association Book Prize. Name changed in 2012 | since 1999 |
| data-sort-value="Berkshire" | Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize | Berkshire Conference of Women Historians | Two prizes, one for work that deals with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality, one for a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. | since 1990 |
| data-sort-value="Beveridge" | Beveridge Award | American Historical Association | Best English-language book on United States, Canada or Latin America history from 1492 to the present | since 1939 |
| data-sort-value="Billington" | Ray Allen Billington Prize | Organization of American Historians | Best book about American frontier history, including all of North and South America, all post-1492 pioneer experiences, and comparisons between American frontiers and others around the world | since 1981 |
| data-sort-value="Blanchard" | Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize | American Journalism Historians Association | Best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history | |
| James L. Clifford Prize
|American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |Best article in 18th-century studies |Since 1978 | |||
| data-sort-value="Cornplanter" | Cornplanter Medal | Cayuga County Historical Society | Iroquois studies | 1904-1979 |
| data-sort-value="Curti" | Merle Curti Award | Organization of American Historians | Best book in American social and/or American intellectual history | Since 1978 |
| data-sort-value="Davenport" | Millia Davenport Publication Award | Costume Society of America | recognizes and promotes excellence in the publication of costume, dress, appearance, and fashion related scholarship. | |
| data-sort-value="Dexter" | Dexter Award | American Chemical Society | History of chemistry (now the HIST award) | 1956–2001 |
| data-sort-value="Douglass" | Frederick Douglass Book Prize | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | Most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements | since 1999 |
| data-sort-value="Dunning" | John H. Dunning Prize | American Historical Association | Best book in history related to the United States | since 1929 |
| data-sort-value="Edelstein" | Sidney M. Edelstein Award | American Chemical Society | History of chemistry (now the HIST award) | 2002–2009 |
| data-sort-value="Emme" | Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award | American Astronautical Society History Committee | Truly outstanding book serving public understanding about the positive impact of astronautics upon society. The award is in honor of Eugene M. Emme, NASA's first historian{{citation |title=Eugene M. Emme (1919-1985)|last=Fries |first=Sylvia D. |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=27 |issue=3 |date=July 1986 |pages=665–667|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for the History of Technology |doi=10.1353/tech.1986.a889608 |jstor=3105425 }} | since 1983 |
| data-sort-value="Fairbank" | John K. Fairbank Prize | American Historical Association | Outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800 | since 1969 |
| data-sort-value="Friend" | Friend of History Award | Organization of American Historians | For an individual, who is not a professional historian, or an institution or organization for outstanding support for the pursuit of historical research, for the public presentation of history, or for the work of the OAH | since 2005 |
| data-sort-value="Gershoy" | Leo Gershoy Award | American Historical Association | Best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries | since 1977 |
| data-sort-value="Gottschalk" | Louis Gottschalk Prize | American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century | since 1976 |
| data-sort-value="Guggenheim-Lehrman" | Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | Best book on military history in the English-speaking world. Before 2016 known as the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History | since 2014 |
| data-sort-value="HIST" | HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry | American Chemical Society | History of chemistry | since 2013 |
| data-sort-value="Harrington" | J. C. Harrington Award in Historical Archaeology | Society for Historical Archaeology | For a life-time of contributions to the discipline [archaeology] centered on scholarship | since 1982 |
| data-sort-value="Hattendorf" | Hattendorf Prize | Naval War College | Original research that contributes to a deeper historical understanding of the broad context and interrelationships involved in the roles, contributions, limitations, and uses of the sea services in history | since 2011 |
| data-sort-value="Hawley" | Ellis W. Hawley Prize | Organization of American Historians | Best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the American Civil War to the present | since 1997 |
| data-sort-value="Hitchock" | Alice Davis Hitchcock Award | Society of Architectural Historians | Most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture | since 1949 |
| data-sort-value="Knox" | Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award | Naval Historical Foundation | Recognize the lifetime achievements of historians of the United States Navy | since 2013 |
| data-sort-value="Kobre" | Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History | American Journalism Historians Association | History of journalism in the United States | since 1986 |
| data-sort-value="Leopold" | Richard W. Leopold Prize | Organization of American Historians | Best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials | since 1984 |
| data-sort-value="Levine" | Lawrence W. Levine Award | Organization of American Historians | Best book in American cultural history | since 2008 |
| data-sort-value="Levinson" | Suzanne J. Levinson Prize | History of Science Society | Book in the history of the life sciences and natural history | since 2006 |
| data-sort-value="Logal" | Wesley Logan Prize | American Historical Association Association for the Study of African American Life | Outstanding book in African diaspora history | since 1994 |
| data-sort-value="Lyman" | John Lyman Book Awards | North American Society for Oceanic History | Excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history | since 1995 |
| data-sort-value="Lynton" | Mark Lynton History Prize | Nieman Foundation for Journalism Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | History, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression | since 1999 |
| data-sort-value="Mahan" | Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement | Navy League of the United States | Notable literary contribution that has advanced the knowledge of the importance of sea power in the United States | since 1957 |
| data-sort-value="Mosse" | George L. Mosse Prize | American Historical Association | European History | since 2000 |
| George Perkins Marsh Prize
|American Society for Environmental History |Best book in environmental history{{Cite web|title=American Society for Environmental History - Award Recipients|url=https://aseh.org/award-recipients|access-date=2020-11-12|website=aseh.org}} |since 1989 | |||
| data-sort-value="Myers" | Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award | Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights | Works which extend understanding of the root causes of bigotry | 1985–2008 |
| data-sort-value="New-York Historical" | New-York Historical Society book prizes | New-York Historical Society | American History Book Prize New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History | |
| data-sort-value="National Council on Public History" | National Council on Public History book prize | National Council on Public History | Best book about or growing out of public history published within the previous two calendar years | since 2005 |
| data-sort-value="Parkman" | Francis Parkman Prize | Society of American Historians | Best book in American history | since 1957 |
| data-sort-value="Pullitzer" | Pulitzer Prize for History | Columbia University | Distinguished book about the history of the United States | since 1917 |
| data-sort-value="Rawley AHA" | James A. Rawley Prize | American Historical Association | Best book in Atlantic history | since 1990 |
| data-sort-value="Rawley OAH" | James A. Rawley Prize | Organization of American Historians | Best book on race relations in the United States | since 1999 |
| data-sort-value="Rome" | Rome Prize | American Academy in Rome | Italian studies | since 1896 |
| data-sort-value="Roosevelt" | Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History | Navy League of the United States Roosevelt Institute Theodore Roosevelt Association | Naval History | since 1986 | |
| data-sort-value="Rossiter" | Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize | History of Science Society | Outstanding book or article on the history of women in science | since 1987 |
| data-sort-value="Sarton" | George Sarton Medal | History of Science Society | Historian of science from the international community distinguished for a lifetime of scholarly achievement | since 1955 |
| data-sort-value="Shea" | John Gilmary Shea Prize | American Catholic Historical Association | Contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church | since 1945 |
| data-sort-value="Taft" | Philip Taft Labor History Book Award | Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations | Books relating to labor history of the United States | since 1978 |
| data-sort-value="Turner" | Frederick Jackson Turner Award | Organization of American Historians | Author's first book on American history | since 1959 |
| data-sort-value="Usher" | Abbot Payson Usher Prize | Society for the History of Technology | Best scholarly work on the history of technology published ... under the auspices of the Society | since 1961 |
| data-sort-value="Utley Book" | Robert M. Utley Book Award | Western History Association | Best book on military history of the frontier and western North America from prehistory through the 20th century | since 2003 |
| data-sort-value="Watumull" | Watumull Prize | American Historical Association | Best book on the history of India | 1945–1982 |
| data-sort-value="Winsor" | Justin Winsor Prize (history) | American Historical Association | History in the Western Hemisphere | 1896–1938 |
| data-sort-value="Winsor" | Justin Winsor Prize (library) | American Library Association | Best library history essay | since 1978 |
| data-sort-value="Zalaznick" | Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History | New-York Historical Society | Adult non-fiction book on American history or biography[https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=whats_new&page=book_prize The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize. THE 6th ANNUAL COMPETITION] (2010) | since 2006 |
Asia
Europe
Oceania
=Australia=
{{main|Australian History Awards}}
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| Award | Sponsor | Notes | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Broeze" | Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Prize | Australian Association for Maritime History Australian National Maritime Museum | Maritime history relating to or impacting on Australia | ||
| data-sort-value="Hancock" | WK Hancock Prize | Australian Historical Association Macquarie University | History book | 2004 |
| data-sort-value="Martin" | Allan Martin Award | Australian National University Australian Historical Association | History of Australia | 2004 |
| data-sort-value="New South Wales" | New South Wales Premier's History Awards | State Library of New South Wales | Distinguished achievement in the interpretation of history | 1997 |
| data-sort-value="Northern Territory" | Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards | Northern Territory Library | History of the Northern Territory of Australia | 2004 |
| data-sort-value="Prime Minister" | Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History | Prime Minister of Australia | Significant contribution to understanding of Australian history | 2006 |
| data-sort-value="Victorian Community" | Victorian Community History Awards | Government of Victoria (Australia) | Preservation of the State's history and excellence in historical research | 1998 |