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.
A $1000 award for the best model of professional public history practice in the history of the American West.
This $2500 award honors the best book in Western History.
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).
This $2500 award is given to the author of the best non-fiction book on Southwestern America.
The $500 award recognizes the best illustrated book on the American West.
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.
The $500 award honors the best book on the military history of the frontier and western North America.
The $500 award honors the best book in Western environmental history.
A $500 award for best book on the Twentieth-Century West.
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
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