The Albert J. Beveridge Award is awarded by the

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, or

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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 (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

*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 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 for '' The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America '' *1948 – Donald Fleming 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 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 for '' The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 '' *1957 – David M. Pletcher for '' Rails, Mines and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 '' *1958 – Paul Conkin 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 for '' The United States And The First Hague Peace Conference '' *1962 – Walter LaFeber 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, wa ...

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

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for '' The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania '' *1973 – Richard Slotkin for '' Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 '' *1974 – Peter H. Wood 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, ...

for '' The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 '' *1976 – Edmund S. Morgan for '' American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia '' *1977 – Henry F. May for '' The Enlightenment in America '' *1978 – John Leddy Phelan 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 for '' A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 '' *1983 – Louis R. Harlan for '' Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 '' *1984 – Sean Wilentz 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, James Leloudis, 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 for '' That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession '' *1990 – Jon Butler for '' Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People '' *1991 – Richard Price 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 for '' Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony '' *1995 – Ann Douglas for '' Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s '' *1995 –

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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 for '' Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry '' *1999 – Friedrich Katz for '' The Life and Times of Pancho Villa '' *2000 –

Linda Gordon Irene Linda Gordon (born January 19, 1940) is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize and the WILLA Literary Award in Historical Nonfiction for ''Dorothea Lange: A Life ...

for '' The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction '' *2001 – Alexander Keyssar 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 for '' Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves '' *2004 – Edward L. Ayers for '' In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 '' *2005 – Melvin Patrick Ely 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 for '' The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America '' *2008 – Scott Kurashige for '' The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles '' *2009 –

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for '' Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History '' *2010 – John Robert McNeill for '' Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 '' *2011 - Daniel Okrent 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 for '' Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters'' *2015 - Elizabeth Fenn for '' Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People'' *2015 - Greg Grandin 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, ''The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration'' *2018 - Camilla Townsend - ''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 - ''The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation'' *2022 - Roberto Saba - ''American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation'' *2023 - Kirsten Silva Gruesz - ''Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Study of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas'' *2024 - Dylan C. Penningroth - ''Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights''

References

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Recipients

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