Award |
Sponsor |
Notes |
Awarded
|
Sacknoff Prize for Space History |
SPACE 3.0 Foundation |
Encourage original research by university students in the field of space history.[7] |
since 2011
|
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize |
American Historical Association |
Distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history[8] |
since 1905
|
AJHA Book Award |
American Journalism Historians Association |
Best book in media history[9] |
|
AJHA Teaching Awards |
American Journalism Historians Association |
Excellence in teaching journalism and mass communication history[10] |
|
Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement |
Archaeological Institute of America |
Archaeology[11] |
since 1965
|
Bancroft Prize |
Columbia University |
Diplomacy or the history of the Americas[12] |
since 1948
|
K. Jack Bauer Award |
North American Society for Oceanic History |
Life-time contributions to the field of maritime history[13] |
|
George Louis Beer Prize |
American Historical Association |
Best book in European international history from 1895 to the present |
since 1923
|
Bentley Book Prize |
World History Association |
First awarded as the World History Association Book Prize. Name changed in 2012 |
since 1999
|
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize |
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians |
Two prizes, one for work that deals with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality, one for a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. |
since 1990
|
Beveridge Award |
American Historical Association |
Best English-language book on United States, Canada or Latin America history from 1492 to the present |
since 1939
|
Ray Allen Billington Prize |
Organization of American Historians |
Best book about American frontier history, including all of North and South America, all post-1492 pioneer experiences, and comparisons between American frontiers and others around the world |
since 1981
|
Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize |
American Journalism Historians Association |
Best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history |
|
Cornplanter Medal |
Cayuga County Historical Society |
Iroquois studies |
1904-1979
|
Merle Curti Award |
Organization of American Historians |
Best book in American social and/or American intellectual history |
Since 1978
|
Millia Davenport Publication Award |
Costume Society of America |
recognizes and promotes excellence in the publication of costume, dress, appearance, and fashion related scholarship. |
|
Dexter Award |
American Chemical Society |
History of chemistry (now the HIST award) |
1956–2001
|
Frederick Douglass Book Prize |
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements |
since 1999
|
John H. Dunning Prize |
American Historical Association |
Best book in history related to the United States |
since 1929
|
Sidney M. Edelstein Award |
American Chemical Society |
History of chemistry (now the HIST award) |
2002–2009
|
Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award |
American Astronautical Society History Committee |
Truly outstanding book serving public understanding about the positive impact of astronautics upon society. The award is in honor of Eugene M. Emme, NASA's first historian[14] |
since 1983
|
John K. Fairbank Prize |
American Historical Association |
Outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800 |
since 1969
|
Friend of History Award |
Organization of American Historians |
For an individual, who is not a professional historian, or an institution or organization for outstanding support for the pursuit of historical research, for the public presentation of history, or for the work of the OAH |
since 2005
|
Leo Gershoy Award |
American Historical Association |
Best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries |
since 1977
|
Gottschalk Prize |
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century |
since 1976
|
Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History |
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation |
Best book on military history in the English-speaking world. Before 2016 known as the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History |
since 2014
|
HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry |
American Chemical Society |
History of chemistry |
since 2013
|
J. C. Harrington Award in Historical Archaeology |
Society for Historical Archaeology |
For a life-time of contributions to the discipline [archaeology] centered on scholarship |
since 1982
|
Hattendorf Prize |
Naval War College |
Original research that contributes to a deeper historical understanding of the broad context and interrelationships involved in the roles, contributions, limitations, and uses of the sea services in history |
since 2011
|
Ellis W. Hawley Prize |
Organization of American Historians |
Best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the American Civil War to the present |
since 1997
|
Alice Davis Hitchcock Award |
Society of Architectural Historians |
Most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture |
since 1949
|
Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award |
Naval Historical Foundation |
Recognize the lifetime achievements of historians of the United States Navy |
since 2013
|
Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History |
American Journalism Historians Association |
History of journalism in the United States |
since 1986
|
Richard W. Leopold Prize |
Organization of American Historians |
Best history book on U.S. federal government agencies, U.S. foreign policies, U.S. military affairs, or biographies of government officials |
since 1984
|
Lawrence W. Levine Award |
Organization of American Historians |
Best book in American cultural history |
since 2008
|
Suzanne J. Levinson Prize |
History of Science Society |
Book in the history of the life sciences and natural history |
since 2006
|
Wesley Logan Prize |
American Historical Association Association for the Study of African American Life |
Outstanding book in African diaspora history |
since 1994
|
John Lyman Book Awards |
North American Society for Oceanic History |
Excellence in published books making a major contribution to the study and understanding of maritime and naval history |
since 1995
|
Mark Lynton History Prize |
Nieman Foundation for Journalism Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
History, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression |
since 1999
|
Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement |
Navy League of the United States |
Notable literary contribution that has advanced the knowledge of the importance of sea power in the United States |
since 1957
|
George L. Mosse Prize |
American Historical Association |
European History |
since 2000
|
George Perkins Marsh Prize
|
American Society for Environmental History
|
Best book in environmental history[15]
|
since 1989
|
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award |
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights |
Works which extend understanding of the root causes of bigotry |
1985–2008
|
New-York Historical Society book prizes |
New-York Historical Society |
American History Book Prize New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History |
|
National Council on Public History book prize |
National Council on Public History |
Best book about or growing out of public history published within the previous two calendar years |
since 2005
|
Francis Parkman Prize |
Society of American Historians |
Best book in American history |
since 1957
|
Pulitzer Prize for History |
Columbia University |
Distinguished book about the history of the United States |
since 1917
|
James A. Rawley Prize |
American Historical Association |
Best book in Atlantic history |
since 1990
|
James A. Rawley Prize |
Organization of American Historians |
Best book on race relations in the United States |
since 1999
|
Rome Prize |
American Academy in Rome |
Italian studies |
since 1896
|
Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History |
Navy League of the United States Roosevelt Institute Theodore Roosevelt Association
|
Naval History |
since 1986
|
Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize |
History of Science Society |
Outstanding book or article on the history of women in science |
since 1987
|
George Sarton Medal |
History of Science Society |
Historian of science from the international community distinguished for a lifetime of scholarly achievement |
since 1955
|
John Gilmary Shea Prize |
American Catholic Historical Association |
Contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church |
since 1945
|
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award |
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations |
Books relating to labor history of the United States |
since 1978
|
Frederick Jackson Turner Award |
Organization of American Historians |
Author's first book on American history |
since 1959
|
Abbot Payson Usher Prize |
Society for the History of Technology |
Best scholarly work on the history of technology published ... under the auspices of the Society |
since 1961
|
Robert M. Utley Book Award |
Western History Association |
Best book on military history of the frontier and western North America from prehistory through the 20th century |
since 2003
|
Watumull Prize |
American Historical Association |
Best book on the history of India |
1945–1982
|
Justin Winsor Prize (history) |
American Historical Association |
History in the Western Hemisphere |
1896–1938
|
Justin Winsor Prize (library) |
American Library Association |
Best library history essay |
since 1978
|
Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History |
New-York Historical Society |
Adult non-fiction book on American history or biography[16] |
since 2006
|