The Justin Winsor Prize was awarded by 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 ...

to encourage new authors to pursue the study of history in the Western Hemisphere at a time when the study of European history predominated. The award was established in 1896 and named for

Justin Winsor Justin Winsor (January 2, 1831October 22, 1897) was an American writer, librarian, and historian. His historical work had strong bibliographical and cartographical elements. He was an authority on the early history of North America and was elec ...

(1831–1896), one of the founders and presidents of the American Historical Association and the long-time Librarian of

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. The award was discontinued in 1938. The American Historical Association's Justin Winsor Prize is not to be confused with the present-day Justin Winsor Prize awarded annually by the Library History Round Table of the

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for the best library history essay.

Award winners

''Annual awards'' *1896

Herman Vandenburg Ames Herman Vandenburg Ames (; August 7, 1865 – February 7, 1935) was an American legal historian, archivist, and professor of United States constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania and, from 1907 to 1928, dean of its graduate sc ...

, ''The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States'' *1897 No award *1898 No award *1899 No award *1900 William A. Schaper, ''Sectionalism and Representation in South Carolina'' *1901 Ulrich B. Phillips, (1877–1934) ''Georgia and State Rights'' *1902 Charles McCarthy, (1873–1921) ''The Anti-Masonic Party'' *1903

Louise Phelps Kellogg Louise Phelps Kellogg (May 12, 1862July 11, 1942) was an American historian, writer, and educator. Early life and education Eva Louise Phelps Kellogg was born on May 12, 1862 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She later stopped going by "Eva". The Women's ...

, (1862–1942) ''The American Colonial Charter; A Study of Its Relation to English Administration, Chiefly After 1688'' *1904 William R. Manning, ''The Nootka Sound Controversy'' *1905 No award *1906

Annie Heloise Abel Annie Heloise Abel (February 18, 1873 – March 14, 1947) was among the earliest professional historians to study Native Americans. She was one of the first thirty women in the United States to earn a PhD in history. One of the ablest historians ...

''Henderson'' , (1860–1939)''The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi River'' ''Biennial awards'' *1908 Clarence Edwin Carter, ''Great Britain and the Illinois Country, 1765–1774'' *1910 Edward Raymond Turner, (1881–1929) ''The Negro in Pennsylvania; Slavery—Servitude—Freedom, 1639–1861'' *1912

Arthur Charles Cole Arthur Cole (April 22, 1886 - February 26 1976) was an American historian. He specialized in the history of the American Civil War and taught at several universities over the course of his career, including University of Illinois (1912 to 1920), ...

, (1886–1976)''The Whig Party in the South'' *1914 Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878–1944) ''Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815–1915'' *1916 Richard J. Purcell, ''Connecticut in Transition, 1775–1818'' *1918

Arthur M. Schlesinger Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr. (; February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material cau ...

, (1888–1965) ''The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1736–1776'' *1920 Frank Lee Benns, (1889–1867) ''The American Struggle for the British West India Carrying Trade, 1815–1830'' *1922

Lawrence Henry Gipson Lawrence Henry Gipson (December 7, 1880 – September 26, 1971) was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History for volumes of his magnum opus, the fifteen-volume history of "The British Empire Be ...

, (1880–1971) ''Jared Ingersoll: A Study of American Loyalism in Relation to British Colonial Government'' *1924 Elizabeth B. White, ''History of Franco-American Diplomatic Relations'' *1926 Lowell Joseph Ragatz, (1897–1978) ''The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763–1833 '' *1928

Fred Albert 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 ...

, (1893–1963) ''The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865, 2 vols'' *1930 L.W. Labaree, ''Royal Government in America: A Study of the British Colonial System Before 1783'' ''Reinstituted award'' *1937

Carl Bridenbaugh Carl Bridenbaugh (August 10, 1903 – January 6, 1992) was an American historian of Colonial America. He had an illustrious career, writing fourteen books and editing or co-editing five more, and he was acclaimed as a historian and teacher. Caree ...

, (1903–1992) ''Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban. Life in America, 1625–1742''

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