The Western History Association (WHA), a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961
at
Santa Fe,
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
by
Ray Allen Billington et al. Included in the field of study are the
American West and
western Canada
Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West, is a Canadian region that includes the four western provinces just north of the Canada†...
. The Western History Association was headquartered from 2012-2017 at the
University of Alaska, Fairbanks. the WHA was hosted on the campus of the
University of Nebraska at Omaha
The University of Nebraska Omaha (Omaha or UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally kno ...
with the support of the Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences.
History
In 1964 WHA began publication at the
University of Utah Press
The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library. Founded in 1949 by A. Ray Olpin, it is also the oldest university press in Utah. The mission of the ...
, with a full run of four issues, and then in 1965 contracted
Sunset publishing to print the quarterly called ''Nebraska'', edited by A. R. Mortensen. The WHA's publications now include the ''Western Historical Quarterly'' and ''
Montana: The Magazine of Western History.'' The association offers several annual and biennial prizes for essays and books, including the annual
Caughey Western History Association Prize for the best book of the year in Western History and the
Robert M. Utley Book Prize for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western
North America (including
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
and
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
) from
prehistory
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...
through the 20th century. Awarded since 2003, past recipients include
Ned Blackhawk
Ned Blackhawk (b. ca. 1970) is a Te-Moak tribe, Western Shoshone American historian currently on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his first major book, ''Violence Over the Land: Indians a ...
,
Amy S. Greenberg
Amy S. Greenberg (born 1968) is an American historian, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.
Life
She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her PhD at Harvard ...
and
Ari Kelman.
''Western Historical Quarterly''
''The Western Historical Quarterly'' (WHQ) has been the official journal of the WHA since its founding in 1969. The journal now "presents original articles dealing with the North American West—expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories." In addition, it provides a field notes section about Western history in applied situations, as well as book reviews, and notices of recent publications about the American West.
See also
*
List of history awards
References
External links
Western History Association''Western Historical Quarterly''
at Oxford Academic
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
Full text of all articles in ''Western Historical Quarterly''
at JSTOR
History organizations based in the United States
History of the American West
Organizations established in 1961
Historical societies of the United States
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