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) from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis in 1939 in memory of

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Albert J. Beveridge Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862 – April 27, 1927) was an American historian and US senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era and a biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Linco ...

(1862-1927) of

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, former secretary and longtime member of the Association, through a gift from his wife, Catherine Eddy Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state. The award has been given annually since 1945.

Recipients

Source
AHA
*1939 – John T. Horton for '' James Kent: A Study in Conservatism '' *1941 – Charles A. Barker for '' The Background of the Revolution in Maryland '' *1943 – Harold Whitman Bradley for '' American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1780-1843 '' *1945 –

John Richard Alden John Richard Alden (23 January 1908, Grand Rapids, Michigan – 14 August 1991, Clearwater, Florida) was an American historian and author of a number of books on the era of the American Revolutionary War. Biography Alden graduated from the Univ ...

for '' John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier '' *1946 – Arthur Eugene Bestor, Jr. for '' Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America: 1663-1829 '' *1947 –

Lewis Hanke Lewis Hanke (1905–1993) was an American historian of colonial Latin America, and is best known for his writings on the Spanish conquest of Latin America. Hanke, along with two others, Irving A. Leonard and John T. Lanning, presented a revisioni ...

for '' The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America '' *1948 –

Donald Fleming Donald Methuen Fleming, (May 23, 1905 – December 31, 1986) was a Canadian parliamentarian, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer, born in Exeter, Ontario, Canada. Life and career Fleming was first elected to the House of Co ...

for '' John William Draper and the Religion of Science '' *1949 – Reynold M. Wik for '' Steam Power on the American Farm: A Chapter in Agricultural History, 1850–1920 '' *1950 – Glyndon G. Van Deusen for '' Horace Greeley: Nineteenth Century Crusader '' *1951 –

Robert Twyman Robert Joseph Twyman (June 18, 1897 – June 28, 1976) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Twyman attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He was employed in for ...

for '' History of Marshall Field and Co., 1852–1906 '' *1952 – Clarence Versteeg for '' Robert Morris '' *1953 – George R. Bentley for '' A History of the Freedman's Bureau '' *1954 – Arthur M. Johnson for '' The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Enterprise and Public Policy '' *1955 – Ian C.C. Graham for '' Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707–1783 '' *1956 –

Paul W. Schroeder Paul W. Schroeder (February 23, 1927''International Who's Who 2000'', Vol. 63 (Europa, 1999: ), p. 1391. – December 6, 2020) was an American historian who was professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He specialized in European interna ...

for '' The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 '' *1957 –

David M. Pletcher David Mitchell Pletcher ( – ) was an American historian, considered an expert in his field. He was a history professor at Indiana University from 1965 to 1990. Biography Pletcher was born June 14, 1920, in Faribault, Minnesota He attend ...

for '' Rails, Mines and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 '' *1958 –

Paul Conkin Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

for '' Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program '' *1959 – Arnold M. Paul for '' Free Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887–1895 '' *1960 – Clarence C. Clendenen for '' The United States and Pancho Villa;: A study in unconventional diplomacy, '' *1960 – Nathan Miller for '' The Enterprise of a Free People: Canals and the Canal Fund in the New York Economy, 1792–1838 '' *1961 –

Calvin Dearmond Davis Calvin may refer to: Names * Calvin (given name) ** Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States * Calvin (surname) ** Particularly John Calvin, theologian Places In the United States * Calvin, Arkansas, a hamlet * Calvin ...

for '' The United States And The First Hague Peace Conference '' *1962 –

Walter LaFeber Walter Fredrick LaFeber (August 30, 1933March 9, 2021) was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as t ...

for '' The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 '' *1963 – no award given *1964 –

Linda Grant DePauw Linda Grant DePauw (born January 19, 1940) is an American modern historian, retired university teacher, non-fiction author and journal editor, who is a pioneer in women's research in the United States. She received the Beveridge Award in 1964, was ...

for '' The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution '' *1965 –

Daniel M. Fox Daniel M. Fox (June 16, 1819 – March 20, 1890) was the List of mayors of Philadelphia, Mayor of Philadelphia from 1869 to 1872. Life Fox was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John and Margaret Fox and was reared in the former Northern Libe ...

for '' The Discovery of Abundance '' *1966 – Herman Belz for '' Reconstructing the Union: Conflict of Theory and Policy during the Civil War '' *1968 –

Michael Paul Rogin Michael Paul Rogin (June 29, 1937 – November 25, 2001) was an American political scientist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley.Janet Gilmore, University of California Press Relations"UC Berkeley professor Michael Rogin, politica ...

for '' Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter '' *1969 – Sam Bass Warner, Jr. for '' The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth '' *1970 – Leonard L. Richards for '' "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America '' *1970 –

Sheldon Hackney Francis Sheldon Hackney (December 5, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was a prominent American educator. He was the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life Hackney was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 193 ...

for '' Populism to Progressivism in Alabama '' *1971 – Carl N. Degler for '' Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States '' *1971 – David J. Rothman for '' The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic '' *1972 – James T. Lemon for '' The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania '' *1973 –

Richard Slotkin Richard Sidney Slotkin (born November 8, 1942) is a cultural critic and historian. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and, since 2010, a member of the American A ...

for '' Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 '' *1974 –

Peter H. Wood Peter Hutchins Wood (born 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American historian and author of ''Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion'' (1974). It has been described as one of the most influenti ...

for '' Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion '' *1975 –

David Brion Davis David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, a ...

for '' The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 '' *1976 –

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 ...

for '' American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia '' *1977 – Henry F. May for '' The Enlightenment in America '' *1978 –

John Leddy Phelan John Leddy Phelan (1924 - 24 July 1976) was a scholar of colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. He spent the bulk of his scholarly career at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following his death, his notable former graduate student, Ja ...

for '' The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781 '' *1979 – Calvin Martin for '' Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade '' *1980 – John W. Reps for '' Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning '' *1981 – Paul G. E. Clemens for '' The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore '' *1982 –

Walter Rodney Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include ''How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'', first published in 1972. Rodney was assassinated in Georgetow ...

for '' A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 '' *1983 –

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 ...

for '' Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 '' *1984 –

Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz (; born February 20, 1951) is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the ...

for '' Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 '' *1985 – Nancy M. Farriss for '' Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival '' *1986 – Alan S. Knight for '' The Mexican Revolution '' *1987 – Mary C. Karasch for '' Slave Life in Rio De Janeiro, 1808-1850 '' *1988 –

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 ...

James Leloudis 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 (disambiguati ...

, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Christopher B. Daly, Lu Ann Jones for '' Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World '' *1989 –

Peter Novick Peter Novick (July 26, 1934, Jersey City – February 17, 2012, Chicago) was an American historian who was Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was best known for writing ''That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and t ...

for '' That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession '' *1990 –

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 ...

for '' Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People '' *1991 –

Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer, pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French ...

for '' Alabi's World '' *1992 – Richard White for '' The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 '' *1993 – James Lockhart for '' The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries '' *1994 –

Karen Ordahl Kupperman Karen Ordahl Kupperman (born 23 April 1939) is an American historian who specializes in colonial history in the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Biography Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota on ...

for '' Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony '' *1995 – Ann Douglas for '' Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s '' *1995 – Stephen Innes for '' Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England '' *1996 – Alan Taylor for '' William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic '' *1997 – William B. Taylor for '' Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico '' *1998 –

Philip D. Morgan Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) is a British historian. He has specialized in Early Modern colonial British America and slavery in the Americas. In 1999, he won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book ''Slave Counterpoin ...

for '' Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry '' *1999 –

Friedrich Katz Friedrich Katz (13 June 1927 – 16 October 2010) was an Austrian-born anthropologist and historian who specialized in 19th and 20th century history of Latin America, particularly, in the Mexican Revolution. "He was arguably Mexico's most wide ...

for '' The Life and Times of Pancho Villa '' *2000 –

Linda Gordon Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize for ''Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits'', and the Antonovych Prize for ''Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil ...

for '' The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction '' *2001 –

Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947) is an American historian and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Life Alex graduated summa cum laude with a degree in ...

for '' The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States '' *2002 – Mary A. Renda for '' Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 '' *2003 –

Ira Berlin Ira Berlin (May 27, 1941 – June 5, 2018) was an American historian, professor of history at the University of Maryland, and former president of Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as ''Many Thousands Gone: T ...

for '' Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves '' *2004 –

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 ...

for '' In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 '' *2005 –

Melvin Patrick Ely Melvin Patrick Ely (pronounced ; born 1952 in Richmond, Virginia) is an history professor and author in Virginia. He has written books about ''Amos 'n' Andy'' and Israel Hill. Life He grew up in Richmond and graduated from Princeton University ...

for '' Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War '' *2006 – Louis S. Warren for '' Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show '' *2007 –

Allan M. Brandt Allan Morris Brandt (born 1953) is a historian of medicine and the Amalie Kass Professor of History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is an author of several books, including ''The Cigarette Century: The ...

for '' The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America '' *2008 –

Scott Kurashige Scott Kurashige is Professor and Chair of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. He is author of ''The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles'' (2008) and ''The ...

for '' The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles '' *2009 – Karl Jacoby for '' Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History '' *2010 –

John Robert McNeill John Robert McNeill (born 1954) is an American environmental historian, author, and professor at Georgetown University. He is best known for "pioneering the study of environmental history". In 2000 he published ''Something New Under the Sun: An ...

for '' Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 '' *2011 -

Daniel Okrent Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editing, editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of ''The New York Times'' newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books ( ...

for ''Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition'' *2012 - Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard for ''Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation'' *2013 - W. Jeffrey Bolster for ''The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail'' *2014 -

Kate Brown Katherine Brown (born June 21, 1960) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 38th governor of Oregon since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the state representative from the 13th district of the ...

for '' Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters'' *2015 -

Elizabeth Fenn Elizabeth Anne Fenn (born September 22, 1959) is an American historian. Her book '' Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People'', won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History. She serves as the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill ...

for '' Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People'' *2015 -

Greg Grandin Greg Grandin (born 1962) is a professor of history at Yale University. He previously taught at New York University. He is author of a number of books, including ''Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City'', which was ...

for ''The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World'' *2016 -

Ann Twinam Ann Twinam (born Cairo, Illinois 1946) is an American historian of colonial Latin America. Education Twinam graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1968, and earned her master's (1972) and doctorate (1976) in history from Yale Universit ...

for ''Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies'' *2017 -

David Chang David Chang (Korean: ; born August 5, 1977) is an American restaurateur, author, podcaster, and television personality. He is the founder of the Momofuku restaurant group. In 2009, Momofuku Ko was awarded two Michelin stars, which the restaur ...

, ''The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration'' *2018 -

Camilla Townsend Camilla Townsend (born January 29, 1965) is an American historian and professor of history at Rutgers University. She specializes in the early history of Native Americans in the United States, as well as in the history of Latin America. Her 2019 ...

- ''Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History'' *2019 - Nan C. Enstad - ''Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism'' *2020 - Jeremy Zallen - ''American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865'' *2021 -

Thavolia Glymph Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University. She specializes in nineteenth-century US history, African-American history and women’s history, authoring ''Out ...

- ''The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation'' *2022 -

Roberto Saba The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

- ''American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation''

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