The Loubat Prize was a pair of prizes awarded by

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every five years between 1898 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about

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. The awards were established and endowed by Joseph Florimond, Duc de Loubat in 1893. The awards were given "in recognition of the best works printed in the English language on the

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

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, or

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of North America." Note that Loubat Prizes were also awarded to acknowledge outstanding social science works about

in a number of European countries from e.g. The

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and the Royal

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. {, class="wikitable" , +Winners of the Loubat Prize , - ! width="10%" , Year ! width="75%" , Awardee ! width="15%" , Award , - ! , 1898 ,

William Henry Holmes William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933), known as W. H. Holmes, was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and dire ...

for ''Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Provinces'' , $1,000 , - , - 1898 , - Dr. Franz Boaz for ''The Social Organization and Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians'' , - $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1913 , George Louis Beer for ''The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660'' , $1,000 , - , John Reed Swanton for ''Tlinget Myths and Texts'' and ''Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coasts of the Gulf of Mexico'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1918 , Clarence Walworth Alvord for ''The Mississippi Valley in American Politics'' , $1,000 , - , Herbert Ingram Priestley for ''José de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain, 1765-1771'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1923 , Justin Harvey Smith for ''The War with Mexico'' , $1,000 , - ,

for ''Handbook of American Aboriginal Antiquities'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1933 , Charles O. Paullin and

John Kirtland Wright John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969) was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and th ...

for ''Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States'' , $1,000 , - , Walter Prescott Webb for ''The Great Plains'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1938 , Samuel E. Morison for ''The Founding of Harvard College'' and ''Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century'' , $1,000 , - , Samuel Kirkland Lothrop for ''Cocle: An Archaeological Study of Central Panama, Part I'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1943 , Sylvanus G. Morley for ''The Inscriptions of Peten'' , $1,000 , - , Edmund Cody Burnett for ''The Continental Congress'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1948 , Lawrence H. Gipson for ''The British Empire Before the American Revolution'' , $1,000 , - ,

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for ''

Linguistic Atlas of New England The ''Linguistic Atlas of New England'' (LANE), edited by Hans Kurath in collaboration with Miles L. Hanley, Bernard Bloch, Guy S. Lowman, Marcus L. Hansen and Julia Bloch, is a book of linguistic maps describing the dialects of New England in ...

'' , $400 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1953 , James G. Randall for ''Midstream–Lincoln the President'' , $1,000 , - , Ralph H. Brown for ''Historical Geography of the United States'' , $500 , - ! rowspan=2 , 1958 , Douglas S. Freeman for ''George Washington: A Biography'' , $1,200 , - , Henry A. Pochmann for ''German Culture in America, 1600-1900'' , $600

References

* "Among The Colleges ... Columbia." "New York Tribune" "December 30, 1895: 13 ("Two prizes, one of not less than $1000 and the other of not less than $400, will be awarded in 1898 to the authors of the best works on the history, geography, archeology, ethnology, philology or numismatics of North America. They are to be known as the Loubat Prizes, ..."). * "Awarded Loubat Prize - Dr. John R. Swanton Honored for Books on Indians." Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) May 11, 1913: 15 ("The prize, which carries with it $400, was founded in 1893 by the Duc de Loubat, formerly of New York City, but now a resident of Paris, to encourage researches in the history, geography, archeology, ethnology, philology or numismatics of North America."). * "Mr. Holmes' Honors. Washington Scientist Receives An Important Prize." "Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) June 10, 1898:10 (“The award of the Le Duc de Loubat prizes, founded by Columbia College of New York, to be awarded one in five years, for the most noteworthy works in American anthropology, has been made, and the first grand prize of $1000 was captured by Mr. William Henry Holmes of Washington, head curator of anthropology at the United States National Museum, and formerly curator of the department of ethnology in the Field Museum in Chicago.”). * "2 Awards Posthumous". ''New York Times'' 3 May 1953: 113. * "Announce Loubat Prizes". ''New York Times'' 9 May 1918: 11. * "He Is to Receive $1,000 of Columbia Loubat Prize". ''New York Times'' 27 May 1948: 26. * "Literary Awards Made". ''New York Times'' 23 Sept. 1958: 30. * "Loubat Prize Won by Dr. S. G. Morley". ''New York Times'' 20 Apr. 1943: 21. * "March of Nations on Columbia Green". ''New York Times'' 7 Jun. 1923: 14. * "Paullin and Wright Win Loubat Award". ''New York Times'' 11 Apr. 1933: 16. * "Prof. S.E. Morison Wins Loubat Prize". ''New York Times'' 9 May 1938: 2. Awards established in 1898 Awards disestablished in 1958 Social sciences awards Awards and prizes of Columbia University American awards 1913 establishments in New York (state) 1958 disestablishments in New York (state)

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