AHA Award Recipients
James Harvey Robinson Prize for an Outstanding Teaching Aid
This honorific prize is offered biennially for the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching of history in any field. The Robinson Prize was established in 1974 by Council and first offered in 1978. It is named in honor of James Harvey Robinson (1863--1936), President of the Association in 1929 and a pioneer in new methods and content of history teaching.
2008 |
Historical Thinking Matters (historicalthinkingmatters.org), produced by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and the School of Education, Stanford University. |
| 2006 | World History Matters (worldhistorymatters.org), produced by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University |
2004 |
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, Produced by the American Social History Project (Graduate Center, City University of New York) and Center for History and New Media (George Mason University.) Producers and creators Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown, and Roy Rosenzweig; Associate Directors Ellen Noonan and Kelly Schrum; and Co-executive Producer Stephen Brier. |
2002 |
Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia, Anne S. Rubin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and William G. Thomas III University of Virginia, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War—The Eve of War. CD-ROM: W.W. Norton and Company (2000), Web site: Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia |
2000 |
James A. Percoco, West Springfield, Va. High School, A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History (Heinemann, 1998) |
1998 |
Eileen H. Tamura, Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Francis K. C. Tsui, and Warren Cohen (University of Hawaii at Manoa) for China: Understanding Its Past (Curriculum Research and Development Group, University of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Press, 1997). |
1996 |
H-Net: Humanities Online, based at Michigan State U.; Richard J. Jensen, executive director, U. of Illinois-Chicago; Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, chair, Executive Committee, Michigan State U. |
1994 |
American Social History Project, Hunter College, CUNY, Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 |
1992 |
Chicago Historical Society, A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (1990) |
1990 |
Gerald A. Danzer, U. of Illinois at Chicago, Discovering the Past Through Maps and Views (Scott, Foresman and Company) |
1987 |
Gerald A. Danzer, U. of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence McMcBride, Illinois State U., People, Space and Time: The Chicago Neighborhood History Project (Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America) |
1984 |
Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, The Way We Lived in North Carolina (U. of North Carolina Press) |
1981 |
Virginia Hamilton, U. of Alabama in Birmingham, Your Alabama and The Story of Alabama (textbooks, Viewpoint, Inc.) |
1978 |
Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., Longwood College, Adolf Hitler, 1885–1945 (three-part documentary film) |
