The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual book prize 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 ...

. It is awarded for "a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of

European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first ea ...

", and is named in honor of

Herbert Baxter Adams Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 – July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian who brought German rigor to the study of history in America; a founding member of the American History Association; and one of the earliest ed ...

, who was from the faculty of

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

and one of the founders of the AHA. Established in 1905, the prize was at first awarded biennially. There was a hiatus in awards from 1930 until 1938. Since 1971 it has been awarded annually. In 1986 eligibility for the prize was changed from "American citizens" to "citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada". The prize is one of the most prestigious awards offered by the U.S. historical profession. Previous recipients include

Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States. In the 1 ...

, Gordon A. Craig, James S. Donnelly Jr., Arno Mayer and

Joan Wallach Scott Joan Wallach Scott (born December 18, 1941) is an American historian of France with contributions in gender history. She is a professor emerita in the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Scott ...

List of recipients

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American Historical Association
*2022- Dan-el Padilla Peralta, ''Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic'' *2021- Stefan J. Link, ''Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order'' *2020- Alexander Bevilacqua, ''The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment'' *2019- Mar Hicks, ''Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing'' *2018- Hussein Fancy, ''The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon'' *2017- Max Bergholz, ''Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community'' *2016- Vittoria Di Palma, ''Wasteland: A History'' *2015- Emily J. Levine, ''Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School'' *2014- Daniela Bleichmar, ''Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment'' *2013-

Steven Barnes Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He has written novels, short fiction, screen plays for television, scripts for comic books, animation, newspaper copy, and magazine articles. Caree ...

, ''Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society'' *2012- E. Natalie Rothman, ''Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul'' *2011- Anna Krylova, ''Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence in the Eastern Front'' *2010- Karl Appuhn, ''A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice'' *2009-

Priya Satia Priya Satia is an American historian of the British Empire The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. ...

, ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East'' *2008- Carol Symes, ''A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras'' *2007- Francine Hirsch, ''Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union'' *2006- Stephanie Siegmund, ''The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: the Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community'' *2005- Maureen Healy, ''Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I'' *2004- Ethan H. Shagan, ''Popular Politics and the English Reformation'' *2003- Terry Martin, ''The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939'' *2002- Florin Curta, ''The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, ca. 500–700'' *2001- Malachi Haim Hacohen, ''Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902–1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna'' *2000- Daniel Lord Smail, ''Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille'' *1999- Gabrielle Hecht, ''The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II'' *1998-

David Nirenberg David Nirenberg is a medievalist and intellectual historian. He is the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, where he was Dean of the Divinity Scho ...

, ''Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages'' *1997- Pieter M. Judson, ''Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914'' *1996- Mary C. Mansfield, ''The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France'' *1995- James H. Johnson, ''Listening in Paris: a Cultural History'' *1994- John Martin, ''Venice's Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City'' *1993- Charters Wynn, ''Workers, strikes, and pogroms : the Donbass-Dnepr Bend in late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905'' *1992- Suzanne Desan, ''Reclaiming the sacred : religious and popular politics in Revolutionary France'' *1991- Theodore Koditschek, ''Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750–1850'' *1990- Richard C. Hoffmann, ''Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside: Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw'' *1989- Jan E. Goldstein, ''Console and Classify: the French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century'' *1988- No award *1987-

Peter Jelavich Peter Jelavich (born 1954) is an author and Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the son of historians Barbara and Charles Jelavich. Previously, Jelavich was professor of history and chair of the Department of Germanic Stud ...

, ''Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performances, 1890–1914'' *1986- William Beik, ''Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc'' *1985-

Jonathan Sperber Jonathan Sperber (born 26 December 1952) is an American academic and historian who is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri and author of modern European History. Early life and academic career Jonathan Sperber was born on 26 Dece ...

, ''Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany'' *1984- Robert C. Palmer, ''The County Courts of Medieval England: 1150–1350'' *1983- Roberta Thompson Manning, ''The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government'' *1982- Edward Muir, ''Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice'' *1981- William H. Sewell Jr., ''Work and Revolution in France: the Language of the Old Regime to 1848'' *1980- William E. Kapelle, ''The Norman Conquest of the North: the Region and its Transformation, 1000–1135'' *1979- Kendall E. Bailes, ''Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941'' *1978- A. N. Galpern, ''The Religions of the People in Sixteenth-Century Champagne'' *1977- Charles S. Maier, ''Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I'' *1976- Frederick H. Russell, ''The Just War in the Middle Ages'' *1975- James S. Donnelly Jr., ''The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: the Rural Economy and the Land Question'' *1974-

, ''The glassworkers of Carmaux: French craftsmen and political action in a nineteenth-century city'' *1973-

Martin Jay Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography. He is currently the ...

, ''The Dialectical Imagination: a History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923–1950'' *1972- Richard Hellie, ''Enserfment and military change in Muscovy'' *1971- Edward E. Malefakis, ''Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain: Origins of the Civil War'' *1970-

John P. McKay John P. McKay (died November 24, 2022) born in St. Louis, Missouri, was a professor of history and an author. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. He became a ...

, ''Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885–1913'' *1968-

Arno J. Mayer Arno Joseph Mayer (born June 19, 1926), is an American historian who specializes in modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust, and is currently the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Early life a ...

, ''Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counterrevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919'' *1966-

Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson may refer to: * Gabriel Jackson (composer) Gabriel Jackson (born 1962 in Hamilton, Bermuda) is an English composer. He is a three-time winner of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors British Composer Award. From ...

, ''The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939'' *1964- Archibald S. Foord, ''His Majesty’s Opposition, 1714–1830'' *1962-

Jerome Blum Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century is a political-social-economic history of Russia written by historian Jerome Blum and published by Princeton University Press in 1961. The work covers the period from Varang ...

, ''

Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century is a political-social-economic history of Russia written by historian Jerome Blum and published by Princeton University Press in 1961. The work covers the period from Varang ...

'' *1960- Caroline Robbins, ''The eighteenth-century commonwealthman'' *1958- Arthur Wilson, ''Diderot : the testing years, 1713-1759'' *1956- Gordon Craig, ''The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945'' *1954- W. C. Richardson, ''Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485–1547'' *1952- Arthur J. May, ''The Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914'' *1950- Hans W. Gatzke, ''Germany’s drive to the west (Drang nach Westen) A study of Germany’s western war aims during the First World War'' *1948- Raymond de Roover, ''The Medici bank: its organization, management, operations, and decline'' *1946- A. W. Salomone, ''Italian Democracy in the Making'' *1944- R. H. Fisher, ''The Russian Fur Trade, 1550–1700'' *1942- E. Harris Harbison, ''Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary'' *1940- John Shelton Curtiss, ''Church and State in Russia: the Last Years of the Empire, 1900–1917'' *1938- Arthur McCandless Wilson, ''French Foreign Policy During the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743'' *1937- ''No award'' *1935- ''No award'' *1933- ''No award'' *1931- Vernon J. Puryear, ''England, Russia, and the Straits Question'' *1929-

, ''Struensee and the Reform Movement in Denmark'' *1927- William F. Galpin, ''The British Grain Trade in the Napoleonic Period'' *1925- Frederick S. Rodkey, ''The Turko-Egyptian Question in the Relations of England, France, and Russia, 1832–1841'' *1922- John Thomas McNeill, ''History of the Oath Ex Officio in England by Mary Hume Maguire: The Celtic Penitentials and their Influence on Continental Christianity'' *1921- Elinar Joranson, ''The Danegeld in France'' *1919- William Thomas Morgan, ''English Political Parties and Leaders in the Reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710'' *1917- Frederick L. Nussbaum, ''Commercial Policy in the French Revolution: a Study of the Career of G. J. A. Ducher'' *1915- Theodore Calvin Pease, ''The Leveller Movement: a Study in the History and Political Theory of the English Great Civil War'' *1913- Violet Barbour, ''Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II'' *1911- Louise Fargo Brown, ''The Political Activities of the Baptists and Fifth Monarchy Men in England During the Interregnum'' *1909- Wallace Notestein, ''A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718'' *1907- Two awards; ** Edward B. Krehbiel, ''The Interdict, its History and its Operation, with Especial Attention to the Time of Pope Innocent III'' ** William S. Robertson, ''Francisco de Miranda and the Revolutionizing of Spanish America'' *1905- David S. Muzzey, ''The Spiritual Franciscans''

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