Western History Association
{{short description|American historical society}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Western History Association
| formation = 1961
| headquarters = Lawrence, Kansas
| location_country = United States
| leader_title = Executive Director
| leader_name = Elaine Marie Nelson
| main_organ = The Western Historical Quarterly
| website = https://www.westernhistory.org/
| founder = Ray Allen Billington
| founding_location = Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
}}
The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961{{cite web | url=https://westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/ | title=About the WHA| publisher=The Western History Association | access-date=January 3, 2018}} at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington, et al. Included in the field of study are the American West and western Canada. The Western History Association was headquartered from 2012 to 2017 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.{{cite web|title=Department of History|url=http://www.uaf.edu/history/|website=University of Alaska Fairbanks|access-date=28 August 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629235128/http://www.uaf.edu/history/| archive-date= June 29, 2017 |url-status=dead}} From 2018 to 2020 the WHA was hosted on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.{{cite web | url=https://westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/Contact | title=Contact Us: WHA Office & Staff | publisher=The Western History Association | access-date=January 3, 2018}} In 2020, the WHA relocated to the Department of History at the University of Kansas, where it receives support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Office |url=https://www.westernhistory.org/office |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.westernhistory.org}}
History
In 1964 WHA began publication at the University of Utah Press, with a full run of four issues, and then in 1965 contracted Sunset publishing to print the quarterly called Nebraska, edited by A. R. Mortensen.{{cite web |title=The American West: Magazine of the Western History Association, Volumes 1–14 by Mortensen, A.R., Ed., United States Buckram |url=http://www.abebooks.com/AMERICAN-WEST-Magazine-Western-History-Association/396224500/bd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924202832/http://www.abebooks.com/AMERICAN-WEST-Magazine-Western-History-Association/396224500/bd |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |access-date=September 25, 2016 |work=Dickson Street Bookshop |publisher=AbeBooks}} The WHA's publications now include the Western Historical Quarterly. The association offers several annual and biennial prizes for essays and books, including the annual Caughey Western History Association Prize for the best book of the year in Western History and the Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America (including Mexico and Canada) from prehistory through the 20th century. Awarded since 2003, past recipients include Ned Blackhawk, Amy S. Greenberg and Ari Kelman.{{cite web | url=https://westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/awards/utley | title=Robert M. Utley Award | publisher=The Western History Association | access-date=January 2, 2018}}
The Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually for a media exhibit, public program, or written work that best models professional public history practice in the history of the American West.{{Cite web |title=Western History Association – Awards |url=https://www.westernhistory.org/awards |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=www.westernhistory.org |publication-place=Omaha, Nebraska}}{{Cite web |title=Western History Association Autry Public History Award |url=https://www.westernhistory.org/awards/autry |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=www.westernhistory.org |publication-place=Omaha, Nebraska}}
''The Western Historical Quarterly''
The Western Historical Quarterly (WHQ) has been the official journal of the WHA since its founding in 1969. The journal now "presents original articles dealing with the North American West—expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories." In addition, it provides a field notes section about Western history in applied situations, as well as book reviews, and notices of recent publications about the American West.{{Cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/whq/pages/About|title=About {{!}} Western Historical Quarterly {{!}} Oxford Academic|website=academic.oup.com|access-date=2018-12-16}}
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org/ Western History Association]
- [https://academic.oup.com/whq Western Historical Quarterly] at Oxford Academic
- [https://www.jstor.org/journal/westhistquar Full text of all articles in Western Historical Quarterly] at JSTOR
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Category:History organizations based in the United States
Category:History of the American West
Category:Organizations established in 1961
Category:Historical societies of the United States
Category:1961 establishments in New Mexico
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