Call for Nominations | WHA 2024 Awards: Books and Public History Awards

Event Details

End: April 15, 2024
Contact: wha@westernhistory.org
More Info: https://westernhistory.org/awards

The Western History Association offers 13 book and public history awards, due by April 15, 2024. One award is given for the best dissertation. For more information, please visit our website. 

 

Autry Public History Prize

A $1000 award for the best model of professional public history practice in the history of the American West.

Caughey Western History Prize

This $2500 award honors the best book in Western History.

Sally and Ken Owens Award

This is a $500 award for the best book on the history of the Pacific West (including Alaska, Hawaii, Western Canada, and the U.S. Pacific Territories).

David J. Weber Prize

This $2500 award is given to the author of the best non-fiction book on Southwestern America. 

Joan Paterson Kerr Award

The $500 award recognizes the best illustrated book on the American West.

Donald L. Fixico Award

This $1000 award recognizes innovative work in the field of American Indian and Canadian First Nations History.

This $1000 prize is awarded to the best first published book on the American West.

Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award

This is a $500 award for a bibliographic or research work in Western History.

Robert M. Utley Prize

The $500 award honors the best book on the military history of the frontier and western North America.

Hal K. Rothman Award

The $500 award honors the best book in Western environmental history.

Robert G. Athearn Award

A $500 award for best book on the Twentieth-Century West.

John C. Ewers Award

The $500 award is for the best book on the topic of North American Indian Ethnohistory.

Beverly Purrington/Richard White Western History Dissertation Prize

This $500 award is given to the best dissertation on the history of the North American West, in its varied aspects and broadest sense, defended and filed in the preceding calendar year. Authors must be WHA members.

 

Contact Info: 

If you have questions about awards, please contact the individual award committee. Please select the award in question to access the committee information. For other questions, please contact the WHA Staff.

 

Abi Scott

WHA Graduate Assistant

wha@westernhistory.org