AHA Award Recipients
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
The Adams Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished first book by a young scholar in the field of European history. The prize was established in 1905 in memory of the first secretary of the Association, Herbert Baxter Adams of Johns Hopkins U., who was also one of the founders of the Association.
The Adams Prize was initially offered on a biennial basis, but in 1930 it was discontinued due to the financial crisis. The prize was revived in 1938, again as a biennial offering, and became an annual award in 1971. The competition was formerly restricted to "American citizens" but since 1986 has been open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.
| 2007 | Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, Cornell Univ. Press, 2005 |
| 2006 | Stephanie Siegmund, University of Michigan, The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community (Stanford University Press, 2006) |
| 2005 | Maureen Healy, Oregon State University, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2004) |
2004 |
Ethan H. Shagan, Northwestern University. Popular Politics and the English Reformation(Cambridge University Press, 2003) |
2003 |
Terry Martin , Harvard University. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union 1923-1939(Cornell University Press, 2001) |
2002 |
Florin Curta, University of Florida. The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) |
2001 |
Malachi Haim Hacohen, Duke University. Karl Popper—The Formative Years, 1902–1945. Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
2000 |
Daniel Lord Smail, Fordham University. Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille (Cornell U. Press, 1999) |
1999 |
Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan. The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press) |
1998 |
David Nirenberg, Rice University. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton U. Press, 1996) |
1997 |
Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore College. Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848–1914 (U. of Michigan Press, 1996) |
1996 |
Mary C. Mansfield, deceased. The Humiliation of Sinners: Public Penance in Thirteenth-Century France (Cornell U. Press 1995) |
1995 |
James H. Johnson, Boston U., Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Univ. of California Press, 1995) |
1994 |
John Martin, Trinity U., Venice’s Hidden Enemies: Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City (Univ. of California Press, 1993) |
1993 |
Charters Wynn, U. of Texas at Austin. Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870–1905. |
1992 |
Suzanne M. Desan, U. of Wisconsin, Madison. Reclaiming the Sacred: Religious and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France (Cornell U. Press, 1990) |
1991 |
Theodore Koditschek, U. of Missouri-Columbia. Class Formation and Urban-Industrial Society: Bradford, 1750–1850 (Cambridge U. Press) |
1990 |
Richard C. Hoffmann, York U., Land, Liberties, and Lordship in a Late Medieval Countryside. Agrarian Structures and Change in the Duchy of Wroclaw (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1989) |
1989 |
Jan Goldstein, U. of Chicago. Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge U. Press) |
1988 |
No award |
1987 |
Peter Jelavich, U. of Texas at Austin. Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performances, 1890–1914 (Cambridge U. Press) |
1986 |
William Beik, Northern Illinois U., Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge U.P.) |
1985 |
Jonathan Sperber, U. of Missouri-Columbia. Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton U.P.) |
1984 |
Robert C. Palmer, College of William and Mary. The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150–1350 (Princeton U.P.) |
1983 |
Roberta Thompson Manning, Boston College. The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia: Gentry and Government (Princeton U.P.) |
1982 |
Edward Muir, Syracuse U., Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton U.P.) |
1981 |
William H. Sewell, Jr., U. of Arizona. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge U.P.) |
1980 |
William E. Kapelle, Brandeis U., The Norman Conquest of the North: The Region and Its Transformation, 1000–1135 (U. of North Carolina Press) |
1979 |
Kendall E. Bailes, U. of California, Irvine, Technology and Society Under Lenin and Stalin (Princeton U.P.) |
1978 |
A.N. Galpern, The Religions of the People in Sixteenth-Century Champagne (Harvard U.P.) |
1977 |
Charles S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade After World War I (Princeton U.P.) |
1976 |
Frederick H. Russell, The Just War in the Middle Ages (Cambridge U.P.) |
1975 |
James S. Donnelly, Jr., The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (Routledge and Kegan Paul) |
1974 |
Joan Wallach Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth-Century City (Harvard U.P.) |
1973 |
Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research, 1923–1950 (Little) |
1972 |
Richard Hellie, Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy (U. of Chicago Press) |
1971 |
Edward E. Malefakis, Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, Origins of the Civil War (Yale U.P.) |
1970 |
John P. McKay, Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885–1913 (U. of Chicago Press) |
1968 |
Arno J. Mayer, Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and CounterRevolution at Versailles, 1918–1919 (New York, Knopf) |
1966 |
Gabriel Jackson, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–39 (Princeton U.P.) |
1964 |
Archibald S. Foord, His Majesty’s Opposition, 1714–1830 (Oxford U.P.) |
1962 |
Jerome Blum, Lord and Peasant in Russia (Princeton U.P.) |
| 1960 | Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman (Harvard U.P.) |
1958 |
Arthur Wilson, Diderot: The Testing Years (Oxford U.P.) |
1956 |
Gordon Craig, Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945 (Oxford U.P.) |
1954 |
W.C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Administration, 1485–1547 (Louisiana State U.P.) |
1952 |
Arthur J. May, The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914 (Harvard U.P.) |
1950 |
Hans W. Gatzke, Germany’s Drive to the West (Johns Hopkins U.P.) |
1948 |
Raymond de Roover, The Medici Bank: Its Organization, Management, Operations, and Decline (New York U.P.) |
1946 |
A.W. Salomone, Italian Democracy in the Making (U. of Pennsylvania Press) |
1944 |
R.H. Fisher, The Russian Fur Trade, 1550–1700 (U. of California Press) |
1942 |
E. Harris Harbison, Rival Ambassadors at the Court of Queen Mary (Princeton U.P.) |
1940 |
John Shelton Curtiss, Church and State in Russia, 1900–1917 (Columbia U.P.) |
1938 |
Arthur McCandless Wilson, French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743 (Harvard U.P.) |
1937 |
No award |
1935 |
No award |
1933 |
No award |
1931 |
Vernon J. Puryear, England, Russia, and the Straits Question (U. of California Press) |
1929 |
Henry Steele Commager, Struensee and the Reform Movement in Denmark |
1927 |
William F. Galpin, The British Grain Trade in the Napoleonic Period (New York: Macmillan, 1925) |
1925 |
Frederick S. Rodkey, The Turko-Egyptian Question in the Relations of England, France, and Russia, 1832–1841 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 1924) |
1922 |
Mary Hume Maguire, History of the Oath Ex Officio in England |
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John Thomas McNeill, The Celtic Penitentials and Their Influence on Continental Christianity (Paris: Champion, 1923) |
1921 |
Elinar Joranson, The Danegeld in France (Rock Island, IL: Augustana, 1923) |
1919 |
William Thomas Morgan, English Political Parties and Leaders in the Reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1710 (Yale U.P., 1920) |
1917 |
Frederick L. Nussbaum, Commercial Policy in the French Revolution: A Study of the Career of G. J. A. Ducher |
1915 |
Theodore C. Pease, The Leveller Movement |
1913 |
Violet Barbour, Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington |
1911 |
Louise Fargo Brown, The Political Activities of the Baptists and Fifth-Monarchy Men in England during the Interregnum |
1909 |
Wallace Notestein, A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 |
1907 |
Edward B. Krehbiel, The Interdict: Its History and Its Operation with Especial Attention to the Time of Pope Innocent III |
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William S. Robertson, Francisco de Miranda and the Revolutionizing of Spanish America |
1905 |
David S. Muzzey, The Spiritual Franciscans |
