Albert B. Corey Prize Recipients
The Albert B. Corey Prize, awarded for the first time in 1967, is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association. This biennial prize is awarded in even numbered years for the best book on Canadian-American relations or on the history of both countries. The prize was approved in 1963 by the Councils of both Associations in honor of Albert B. Corey (1898–1963), one-time chair of the American section of the AHA-CHA Joint Committee, who first proposed such an award to encourage the study of Canadian-US relations. The awarding of the prize was formally ratified in 1966, after funding for the prize was secured.
2022
Benjamin T. K. Hoy, A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford Univ. Press)
2020
Jamie Benidickson, Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press)
2018
Ann Little, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (Yale Univ. Press)
2016
Robert MacDougall, The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
2014
Lissa Wadewitz, The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Univ. of Washington Press)
2012
Karen Balcom, The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-73 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2010
David Preston, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
2008
Sharon Roger Hepburn, Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada (Univ. of Illinois Press)
2006
John Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David Smith, and Randy Widdis, Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press and Univ. of Calgary Press)
2004
Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-84 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2002
Francis Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2000
Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls (Rutgers Univ. Press)
1998
Elizabeth Vibert, Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-46 (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
1996
Ernest Clarke, The Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776: An Episode in the American Revolution (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press)
1994
Royden Loewen, Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds 1850-1930 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
1992
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, Republics in the Great Lakes Regions, 1650-1815 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
1990
Reginald Stuart, United States Expansionism and British North America 1775-1871 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
1988
E. Jane Errington, The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press)
1986
James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (Oxford Univ. Press)
1984
Gregory Kealey and Bryan Palmer, Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labour in Ontario, 1880-1900 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
1984
James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada. Indochina: Roots of Complicity (Univ. of Toronto Press)
1982
Guildo Rousseau, L'image des Etats-unis dans la litterature quebecoise, 1775-1930 (Editions Naaman)
1980
Robert Bothwell, C.D. Howe (McClelland and Stewart)
1978
Michael Katz, The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-19th-Century City (Harvard Univ. Press)
1976
Robert Babcock, Gompers in Canada: A Study in American Continentalism before the First World War (Univ. of Toronto Press)
1974
Lester Pearson, Mike, The Memoirs of the Right Honorable Lester B. Pearson, vol. 1, 1972 and vol. 2, 1973 (Univ. of Toronto Press and Quadrangle Books)
1972
Charles Stacey, Arms, Men, and Governments: The War Policies of Canada 1939-45 (The Queen’s Printer, Ottawa)
1969
Kenneth Bourne, Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815-1908 (Univ. of California Press)
1967
Gustave Lanctot, Canada and the American Revolution (Harvard Univ. Press)
2022 Corey Prize
Benjamin T. K. Hoy, University of Saskatchewan
A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford Univ. Press)
Focused on the creation of the Canada–US border, Benjamin Hoy’s ambitious study treats the complexities involved in border construction itself. It centers relationships that have previously been relegated to the shadows, such as internal Indigenous politics, as well as issues of immigration, ethnicity, and prohibition. Weaving together individuals and broad trends, Hoy shapes our understandings of the border and the efforts at controlling and patrolling it from both sides.