The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors;

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, students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians; and a variety of scholars employed in government and the private sector. The OAH publishes the '' Journal of American History''. Among its various programs, OAH conducts an annual conference each spring, and has a robust speaker bureau—the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. The organization's mission is to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourage wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history. Membership is open to all who wish to support its mission. In 2010 its individual membership is approximately 8,000 and its institutional membership approximately 1,250. For its 2009 fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the organization's operating budget was approximately $2.9 million. In its 2018 annual report, membership in the organization "stabilized" with approximately 7,000 members. In fiscal year 2019 (ending June 30, 2019), the organization's budget was $3.66 million. Raintree House-082007-640x480

History

The Mississippi Valley Historical Association was formed at a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, of seven historical societies of the Mississippi Valley on October 17 and 18, 1907. The organization, devoted to studying the Mississippi Valley region, began a tradition of holding an annual meeting each year, and began quarterly publication in 1914 of the '' Mississippi Valley Historical Review''. As the scholarly emphasis of the organization and its journal developed and spread over time, its initial emphasis on the Mississippi Valley came under sharp challenge from members who wanted a better title and a wider scope. Ray Billington, OAH president in 1962-1963, detailed four issues that arose and caused bitter quarreling during the discussion about the proposed name change in a 1978 ''Journal of American History'' essay: the desire to use the association's prestige to fight for liberal reforms, to change the association's name to represent a national scope, to democratize its oligarchical structure, and to take a firm stand against racial discrimination in terms of hotels and meeting cities. The reformers were successful and the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' was renamed the '' Journal of American History'' and the organization, correspondingly, was renamed the Organization of American Historians the following year. Indiana University was selected as home for the editorial offices of the '' Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' predecessor to the '' Journal of American History'' in 1963. Prior to relocating to Indiana, the editorial offices were located at Tulane University. The organization moved its business offices to Indiana in the summer of 1970 from its home on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organization's headquarters are in Bloomington, Indiana on the campus of Indiana University in the

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''), which stand on the property. Built by William Moffett Millen c. 1845, it is an excellent example of the Georgian house plan favored by well-to-do farmers in southern Indiana and the Upland South in the mid-nineteenth century. The OAH was admitted to the

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in 1971. It is a foundational partner of the National Coalition for History and the National Humanities Alliance.

Advocacy

Guided by its mission, the OAH regularly advocates for the study, teaching, and presentation of American history, the equitable treatment of all those who work in the field, and public engagement with history. The OAH is a member of the National Humanities Alliance and National Coalition for History and regularly participates in advocacy efforts related to federal funding for the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Historical Publications and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, etc. The Organization often submits ''amicus'' ''curiae'' briefs for matters being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as district courts. In doing so it aims to present the court with an accurate account of the history of the cases being litigated. The OAH does not advocate for a particular legal standard rather, as a steward of history, it seeks to ensure that the Court is presented with accurate portrayals of American history. The most recently submitted brief was in the case of ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization''. Previous briefs include those submitted for ''Perry v. Hollingsworth, U.S. v. Windsor,'' ''Obergefell v. Hodges'', and ''In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation''. Advocating for inclusive history education is another key component of the OAH's advocacy efforts. It is part of the Learn from History Coalition, which seeks to educate parents, teachers, and community members on how to support inclusive history in schools. And, in 2021 it began producing a public webinar series, The Future of the Past, that looks at the diverse history behind contemporary events, such as the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Governance

The Organization of American Historians is a 501(c)(3) non-profit incorporated in Nebraska in 1907. It is governed by an Executive Board, which is composed of OAH officers, former presidents who continue to serve for two years immediately succeeding their presidency, and nine elected members. The OAH Executive Committee is composed of the officers of the OAH and the immediate past president. Both the Executive Director and the Executive Editor serve on the board and executive committee as non-voting members. In addition to the Executive Board, there are forty-seven service and award committees made up of approximately 350 member volunteers who serve two or three year terms.

Programs

The OAH Conference on American History brings together nearly 2,000 historians and features between 700 and 900 speakers participating in an average of 150 paper sessions, workshops, and events on all facets of American history over four days each spring. The central theme for each conference is determined by a program committee and the then president elect. The conference (previously the annual meeting) has been held every year since the organization began, with the exception of 1945 due to war time restrictions. In 1994, the Organization began working with the National Park Service to produce a wide range of projects, including scholars’ visits to national park sites, administrative histories, historic resource studies, national landmarks theme studies, peer review of interpretive material, curriculum development, and conferences and seminars. Since the date of the first cooperative agreement between the OAH and NPS, more than 100 reports have been produced for NPS units around the country. The OAH serves as the program manager, overseeing the historians working on the various projects and ensuring their timely completion. The Distinguished Lectureship Program (DLP), the OAH speakers bureau, was established in 1980 by then president Gerda Lerner as a way of bringing the expertise of members to a broader audience. Each year a new roster historians are appointed to a three-year term. In addition to traditional, in-person events, the program began offering the option of virtual lectures in 2020.

Publications

The ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' began in 1914 and was published quarterly under that name until 1962 when it was changed to the ''Journal of American History''. The ''JAH'' is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication and is the journal of record for the field of U.S. history. In addition to scholarly articles, it regularly publishes book reviews, movie reviews, public history reviews, digital humanities reviews, and, each March, a “Textbook and Teaching” section that is freely available on their publisher’s, Oxford University Press, website. Additionally, one article each issue is designated “Editor’s Choice” and is opened to the public. A nine-person editorial board guides the review and selection of articles for publication.

List of Mississippi Valley Historical Association and OAH Presidents

Mississippi Valley Historical Association Presidents

* Francis A. Sampson (1907) *

Thomas M. Owen Thomas McAdory Owen (November 19, 1866 – March 25, 1920) was an American lawyer, archivist, historian, and founder of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, serving as its first director. Owen was the author of a large and noted ...

(1907–1908) * Clarence W. Alvord (1908–1909) *

Orin G. Libby Orin Grant Libby (June 9, 1864, near Hammond, Wisconsin – March 29, 1952, Grand Forks, North Dakota) was an American historian. Biography Libby was the son of farmer Asa Libby and his wife Julia (Barrows) Libby. As well as farming, his father h ...

(1909–1910) *

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(1910–1911) *

Andrew C. McLaughlin Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (February 14, 1861 – September 24, 1947) was an American historian known as an authority on U.S. Constitutional history. Background McLaughlin was born in Illinois and received his bachelor's and law degrees from the ...

(1911–1912) * Reuben G. Thwaites (1912–1913) *

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(1913–1914) * Isaac Joslin Cox (1914–1915) * Dunbar Rowland (1915–1916) *

Frederic L. Paxson Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was an American historian. He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees ...

(1916–1917) *

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(1917–1918) * Harlow Lindley (1918–1919) *

Milo M. Quaife Milo Milton Quaife (1880–1959) was a historian of Michigan and the Great Lakes region. Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa. He received his education at Grinnell College, the University of Missouri and the University of Chicago. He was head of the ...

(1919–1920) *

Chauncey S. Boucher Chauncey Samuel Boucher (14 June 1886 – 13 August 1955) was an American academic and historian. Boucher was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Chauncey Watson Boucher and Elizabeth Celstea Van Loon. He was a professor of history at the Univer ...

(1920–1921) *

William E. Connelley William Elsey Connelley (1855-1930) was an American writer, historian and school teacher. He is best known for a series of books that document the history of Kansas, the Civil War, and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bi ...

(1921–1922) *

Solon J. Buck Solon Justus Buck (August 16, 1884 – May 25, 1962) was the Second Archivist of the United States. His academic career, never straying very far from his interest in the history of agricultural communities, started with a brief appointment to Ind ...

(1922–1923) * Eugene C. Barker (1923–1924) *

Frank Heywood Hodder Frank Heywood Hodder (November 8, 1860, Aurora, Illinois - December 27, 1935) was an American historian and a professor first at Cornell University (1885-1890) and later at the University of Kansas. Biography Hodder took his degrees from the U ...

(1924–1925) *

James A. Woodburn James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

(1925–1926) *

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(1926–1927) *

Joseph Schafer Joseph Schafer (1867-1941) was the first academically trained historian in the U.S. state of Oregon. He studied with Frederick Jackson Turner, and chaired the history department at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O o ...

(1927–1928) *

Charles W. Ramsdell Charles William Ramsdell (April 4, 1877 – July 3, 1942) was an American historian. Early life Charles William Ramsdell was born on April 4, 1877, in Salado, Texas. His father, Charles H. Ramsdell, arrived in Texas from New England just befo ...

(1928–1929) * Homer C. Hockett (1929–1930) * Louise P. Kellogg (1930–1931) * Beverley W. Bond Jr. (1931–1932) *

John D. Hicks John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(1932–1933) * Jonas Viles (1933–1934) * Lester B. Shippee (1934–1935) * Louis Pelzer (1935–1936) *

Edward E. Dale Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

(1936–1937) *

Clarence E. Carter Clarence may refer to: Places Australia * Clarence County, New South Wales, a Cadastral division * Clarence, New South Wales, a place near Lithgow * Clarence River (New South Wales) * Clarence Strait (Northern Territory) * City of Clarence, a loca ...

(1937–1938) * William O. Lynch (1938–1939) *

James G. Randall James Garfield Randall (June 4, 1881 in Indianapolis, Indiana - February 20, 1953) was an American historian specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. He taught at the University of Illinois, (1920–1950), where David ...

(1939–1940) * Carl F. Wittke (1940–1941) * Arthur C. Cole (1941–1942) *

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(1942–1943) *

Theodore C. Blegen Theodore Christian Blegen (16 July 1891 – 18 July 1969) was an American historian and writer. Blegen was the writer of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period. His primary areas of focus wer ...

(1943–1944) *

William C. Binkley William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

(1944–1946) * Herbert A. Kellar (1946–1947) * Ralph P. Bieber (1947–1948) * Dwight L. Dumond (1948–1949) *

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(1949–1950) * Elmer Ellis (1950–1951) * Merle E. Curti (1951–1952) *

James L. Sellers James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

(1952–1953) *

Fred A. Shannon Fred Albert Shannon (February 12, 1893 – February 4, 1963) was an American historian. He had many publications related to American history, and he won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Organization and Administration of the U ...

(1953–1954) *

Walter P. Webb Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963 near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he ...

(1954–1955) *

Edward C. Kirkland Edward Chase Kirkland (May 24, 1894 – May 24, 1975) was an American historian. He was a professor of Economics History at Bowdoin College, and the president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Association of University P ...

(1955–1956) *

Thomas D. Clark Thomas Dionysius Clark (July 14, 1903 – June 28, 2005) was an American historian. Clark saved from destruction a large portion of Kentucky's printed history, which later became a core body of documents in the Kentucky Department for Libraries and ...

(1956–1957) * Wendell H. Stephenson (1957–1958) *

William T. Hutchinson William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

(1958–1959) *

Frederick Merk Frederick Merk (August 15, 1887 – September 24, 1977) was an American historian. He taught at Harvard University from 1924 to 1956. Biography Frederick Merk was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1887. He graduated from the University of W ...

(1959–1960) *

Fletcher M. Green Fletcher Melvin Green (1895 - 1978) was a historian and writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair. The University has a collection of his papers. H ...

(1960–1961) * Paul W. Gates (1961–1962) *

Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington (September 28, 1903 in Bay City, Michigan - March 7, 1981 in San Marino, California) was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defend ...

(1962–1963) *

Avery O. Craven Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 – January 21, 1980) was an American historian who wrote extensively about the nineteenth-century United States, the American Civil War and Congressional Reconstruction from a then-revisionist viewpoint sym ...

(1963–1964)

OAH Presidents

John W. Caughey John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(1964–1965) *

George E. Mowry George Edwin Mowry (September 5, 1909 – May 12, 1984) was an American historian focusing primarily on the Progressive Era. As a professor at UCLA and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he taught large classes and directed over 50 ...

(1965–1966) * Thomas C. Cochran (1966–1967) *

Thomas A. Bailey Thomas Andrew Bailey (December 14, 1902 – July 26, 1983) was a professor of history at his alma mater, Stanford University, and wrote many historical monographs on diplomatic history, including the widely used American history textbook, ''Th ...

(1967–1968) *

C. Vann Woodward Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of un ...

(1968–1969) * Merrill Jensen (1969–1970) *

David M. Potter David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the American South and the American Civil War. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, graduated from the Academy of Richmond County, an ...

(1970–1971) *

Edmund S. Morgan Edmund Sears Morgan (January 17, 1916 – July 8, 2013) was an American historian and an eminent authority on early American history. He was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in ...

(1971–1972) *

T. Harry Williams Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 — July 8, 1979) was an American academic and author. For the majority of his academic career between the 1930s to 1970s, Williams taught history at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Williams was a Boyd ...

(1972–1973) *

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(1973–1974) * John Hope Franklin (1974–1975) *

Frank Freidel Frank Burt Freidel, Jr. (May 22, 1916 – January 25, 1993) was an American historian, the first major biographer of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the first scholars to work on his papers stored in the Roosevelt Library ...

(1975–1976) *

Richard W. Leopold Richard William Leopold (6 January 1912 in New York City – 23 November 2006 in Evanston, Illinois) was a prominent diplomatic and military historian at Northwestern University. Early life and education The second son of Harry Leopold, Sr., an ...

(1976–1977) *

Kenneth M. Stampp Kenneth Milton Stampp (12 July 191210 July 2009), Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (1946–1983), was a celebrated historian of slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstr ...

(1977–1978) *

Eugene D. Genovese Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and s ...

(1978–1979) *

Carl N. Degler Carl Neumann Degler (February 6, 1921 – December 27, 2014) was an American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University. Early life and education Degler w ...

(1979–1980) * William A. Williams (1980–1981) * Gerda Lerner (1981–1982) * Allan G. Bogue (1982–1983) * Anne Firor Scott (1983–1984) * Arthur S. Link (1984–1985) *

William E. Leuchtenburg William Edward Leuchtenburg (born September 28, 1922) is an American historian. He is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a leading scholar of the life and career of F ...

(1985–1986) * Leon F. Litwack (1986–1987) *

Stanley Nider Katz Stanley Nider Katz (born April 23, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy. He is director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultu ...

(1987–1988) * David Brion Davis (1988–1989) *

Louis R. Harlan Louis Rudolph Harlan (July 13, 1922 – January 22, 2010) was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materi ...

(1989–1990) * Mary Frances Berry (1990–1991) * Joyce Appleby (1991–1992) *

Lawrence W. Levine Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933 – October 23, 2006) was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California. He was noted for promoting multiculturalism and the perspectives of ordinary people in the ...

(1992–1993) * Eric Foner (1993–1994) *

Gary B. Nash Gary Baring Nash (July 27, 1933 – July 29, 2021) was an American historian. He concentrated on the Revolutionary period, slavery and race, as well as the formation of political communities in Philadelphia and other cities. Life and education Na ...

(1994–1995) *

Michael Kammen Michael Gedaliah Kammen (October 25, 1936 – November 29, 2013) was an American professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. At the time of his death, he held the title "Newton C. Farr professor emeri ...

(1995–1996) *

Linda K. Kerber Linda Kaufman Kerber (born January 23, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American feminist, a political and intellectual historian, and educator who specializes in the history and development of the democratic mind in America, and the history of w ...

(1996–1997) *

George M. Fredrickson George M. Fredrickson (July 16, 1934 – February 25, 2008) was an American author, activist, historian, and professor. He was the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University until his retirement in 2002. After hi ...

(1997–1998) *

William H. Chafe William H. Chafe (/ˈtʃeɪf/; born January 28, 1942) is an American historian, and currently Alice Mary Baldwin Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University in Durham, NC. Career Professor Chafe received his PhD from Columbia University ...

(1998–1999) * David Montgomery (1999–2000) *

Kenneth T. Jackson Kenneth Terry Jackson (born 1939) is a professor emeritus of history and social sciences at Columbia University. A frequent television guest, he is best known as an urban historian and a preeminent authority on the history of New York City, where ...

(2000–2001) * Darlene Clark Hine (2001–2002) * Ira Berlin (2002–2003) *

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (born 1943) is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her scholarship and teaching forwarded the emergence of U.S. women's history in the 1960s and ...

(2003–2004) * James O. Horton (2004–2005) * Vicki Ruiz (2005–2006) * Richard White (2006–2007) * Nell Irvin Painter (2007–2008) * Pete Daniel (2008–2009) * Elaine Tyler May (2009–2010) * David A. Hollinger (2010–2011) *

Alice Kessler-Harris Alice Kessler-Harris (June 2, 1941, Leicester) is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University, and former president of the Organization of American Historians, and specialist in the American labor and comparative ...

(2011–2012) * Albert M. Camarillo (2012–2013) * Alan M. Kraut (2013–2014) * Patricia Nelson Limerick (2014–2015) *

Jon Butler Jon Butler (born June 4, 1940) is a historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is know ...

(2015–2016) *

Nancy F. Cott Nancy Falik Cott (born November 8, 1945) is an American historian and professor who has taught at Yale and Harvard universities, specializing in gender topics in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has testified on same-sex ...

(2016–2017) *

Edward L. Ayers Edward Lynn "Ed" Ayers (born January 22, 1953; Asheville, North Carolina) is an American historian, professor, administrator, and university president. In July 2013, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama at a W ...

(2017–2018) *

Earl Lewis Earl Lewis is the founding director of the Center for Social Solutions and professor of history at the University of Michigan. He was president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 2013 to 2018. Before his appointment as the president of the ...

(2018–2019) * Joanne Meyerowitz (2019–2020) * George J. Sánchez (2020–2021) *

Philip J. Deloria Philip Joseph Deloria is a historian, author and member of the Dakota Nation who specializes in Native American, Western American, and environmental history. He is the son of scholar Vine Deloria, Jr., and the great nephew of ethnologist Ella ...

(2021–2022) *

Erika Lee Erika Lee is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and an award-winning non-fiction writer. Early life Lee is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants. She grew up in t ...

(2022– )

OAH Awards and Prizes

The following is a list of Awards and Prizes given by Organization of American Historians. * Willi Paul Adams Award *

Erik Barnouw Award The Erik Barnouw Award—also known as the OAH Erik Barnouw Award—is named after the late Erik Barnouw, a Columbia University historian and professor who was a specialist in mass media. The OAH -- Organization of American Historians -- gives one o ...

Ray Allen Billington Prize The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book about American frontier history. The "American frontier" includes all of North and South America, all post-1492 pioneer experiences ...

* Binkley-Stephenson Award * Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award (formerly the Avery O. Craven Award) * Merle Curti Intellectual History Award *Merle Curti Social History Award *John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award *

Friend of History Award The Friend of History Award is an award given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award was first presented in 2005. It is not a monetary award and is granted annually. Purpose Friend of History Award "recognizes an individual, w ...

Ellis W. Hawley Prize The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is an annual book award by the Organization of American Historians for the best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the A ...

* OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants *John Higham Research Fellowship *

Darlene Clark Hine Award The Darlene Clark Hine Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for best book in African American women's and gender history. Darlene Clark Hine Darlene Clark Hine (born February 7, 1947) is an American author and profe ...

* Huggins-Quarles Award *JAAS Travel Grants * Richard W. Leopold Prize * Lerner–Scott Dissertation Prize – established in 1992 and named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott * Lawrence W. Levine Award * Liberty Legacy Foundation Award * Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants *

David Montgomery Award David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

*Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History *OAH Presidents’ Travel Fund for Emerging Historians * Louis Pelzer Memorial Award * James A. Rawley Prize * Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award *Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History *

Tachau Teacher of the Year Award Tachov (; german: Tachau) is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Mže River. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts ...

David Thelen Award David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

Frederick Jackson Turner Award The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history. It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award. ...

References

External links

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