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Leo Gershoy Award
The Leo Gershoy Award is a book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Endowed in 1975 by the Gershoy family and first awarded two years later, the prize commemorates Leo Gershoy, professor of French history at New York University. It was awarded biennially until 1985, and annually thereafter. The first recipient of the award was Simon Schama; other distinguished honorees include Robert Darnton, John H. Elliott and Roy Porter. Carla Rahn Phillips of the University of Minnesota has uniquely won the prize on two occasions. List of prizewinners Sourced from AHA *2021 — Susan North, ''Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England'' (Oxford Univ. Press) *2020 — Margaret E. Schotte, ''Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800'' (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) *2019 — Hugh G. Cagle, ''Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional standards, and support scholarship and innovative teaching. It publishes ''The American Historical Review'' four times a year, with scholarly articles and book reviews. The AHA is the major organization for historians working in the United States, while the Organization of American Historians is the major organization for historians who study and teach about the United States. The group received a congressional charter in 1889, establishing it "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America." Current activities As an umbrella organization for the discipline, the AHA works with other major histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bell (historian)
David Avrom Bell is an American historian specializing in French history. Biography David Bell was born into a Jewish family in New York City in 1961. He is the son of sociologist Daniel Bell and literary critic Pearl Kazin Bell (Alfred Kazin's sister). He completed his A.B. in History and Literature at Harvard University in 1983, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his M.A. in History in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1991, both at Princeton University. He then taught at Yale University from 1990 to 1996; Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2010, where he was Dean of Faculty beginning in 2007; and at Princeton University since 2010. Contributions to Scholarship Books * ''Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) * ''The West: A New History'' ( W. W. Norton, 2018) * ''Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present'' (Oxford University Press, 2016). * ''Napoleon: A Concise Biography'' (Oxford Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Awards
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of History Awards ...
This list of history awards covers notable awards given to persons, a group of persons, 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. Americas Canada Latin America United States Asia Europe Oceania Australia See also * Lists of awards References {{Phaleristics, state=collapsed history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard S
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Elliott (historian)
Marianne Elliott (born 1948) is an Irish historian who was appointed OBE in the 2000 Birthday Honours. Career Elliott was born on 25 May 1948 in Raholp, County Down, Northern Ireland, brought up in Belfast, and educated at Dominican College, Fortwilliam, Queen's University Belfast, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She lectured in history at West London Institute of Higher Education 1975 to 1977, and was a Research Fellow at University College, Swansea, from 1977 to 1982. After short spells at Iowa State University and the University of South Carolina, she was a research fellow at the University of Liverpool from 1984 to 1987, and Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester from 1988 to 1989. She was a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, from 1991 to 1993, when she became the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She was, until her retirement from the post, also the Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elliott (historian)
Sir John Huxtable Elliott (23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He published under the name J. H. Elliott. Biography Born in Reading, Berkshire, on 23 June 1930, Elliott was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an assistant lecturer at Cambridge University from 1957 to 1962 and Lecturer in History from 1962 until 1967, and was subsequently Professor of History at King's College, London, between 1968 and 1973. In 1972 he was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and the American Philosophical Society in 1982. Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1973 to 1990, and was Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Nichols Barker
Nancy Nichols Barker (1925 – 1994) was a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Early life Barker was born on December 26, 1925, in Mt. Vernon, New York. She received a bachelor's degree at Vassar College in 1946 and master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 and 1955, respectively. Career Barker taught briefly at the University of Delaware and joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 1955. She was a specialist in French diplomatic history. Barker was the author of several books, including ''The Empress Eugenie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire'' (1967), ''The French Experience in Mexico, 1821-1861: A History of Constant Misunderstanding'' (1979), and ''Phillippe, Duke of Orleans (1640-1701): Brother to the Sun King'' (1989). She also translated and edited ''The French Legation in Texas (1971-1973)''. With Marvin L. Brown Jr., Barker edited ''Diplomacy in an Age of Nationalism: Essays in Honor of Lynn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Dewald
Jonathan Stewart Dewald (born in New York state) is an American historian focusing on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe, as well as the intellectual history and political history of France. He is currently the SUNY Distinguished Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dewald was educated in Berkeley, California, where he was awarded a BA by Swarthmore College in 1968, an MA by the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, and a PhD by UC-Berkeley in 1974. He then taught history for 16 years at the University of California, Irvine, becoming a Full Professor. Dewald was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1986–87. He then returned to Buffalo in 1990 as a SUNY Professor. He became a UB Distinguished Professor from 2002–2017, and subsequently a SUNY Distinguished Professor. Dewald currently teaches a broad range of classes at the University at Buffalo for both undergraduate and graduate students. Dewald's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isser Woloch
Isser Woloch (born 1937) is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia. His work focuses on the French Revolution and on Napoleon. He was educated at Columbia (A.B., 1959) and at Princeton (Ph.D., 1965). He was the winner of the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ... in 1994. Selected publications *Woloch, Isser (1970), ''Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory'', Princeton University Press. * * * * * * References External links Isser Woloch: Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History* 1937 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Columbia University faculty Columbia C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Hull
Isabel Virginia Hull (born 1949) is John Stambaugh Professor Emerita of History and the former chair of the history department at Cornell University. She specializes in German history from 1700 to 1945, with a focus on sociopolitics, political theory, and gender/sexuality. Since January 2006, Hull has served on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Modern History''. Education Hull received her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970 and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978. She teaches courses on European fascism, World War I, German history 1648–present, and international law. Research The position for which Hull is best known, embodied in her two most recent books, is that Germany before and during World War I was uniquely indifferent to international law among the great powers, and (contrary to established historiography) that its responsibility for bringing the war about was much greater than that of the Allied powers. In 2014, Hull published ''A Scrap of Paper: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Tackett
Timothy Tackett (born 1945) is an American historian specializing in the French Revolution and professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. His 1996 book about the members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 2001; he has also written about the Flight to Varennes and the emergence of the Terror amid the turbulence of the Revolution. He wrote a book called, "The coming of the terror in the French Revolution". Works * ''Priest & Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Cures in a Diocese of Dauphine, 1750-1791'', Princeton University Press, 1977, 368 p. * ''La Révolution, l'Église, la France'', Cerf, 1986. * ''Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791'', Princeton University Press, 1986, 448 p. * ' 'The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution'', Journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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