Originally the “William Gilbert Award,” named in memory of William Gilbert, a longtime AHA member and distinguished scholar-teacher of the Renaissance at the University of Kansas, this prize was renamed the William and Edwyna Gilbert Award in 2012 after Edwyna Gilbert passed away and left an additional $110,000 to supplement the original $10,000 bequest for the award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the teaching of history through the publication of journal and serial articles.

2023
Michael P. Marino, “Rethinking Historical Thinking: How Historians Use Unreliable Evidence,” The History Teacher 55, no. 2 (February 2022)

2022
Brigid E. Vance, “Finding their Voice: Student Podcasts on the East Asian Collection at Lawrence University’s Wriston Galleries,” The History Teacher 54, no. 4 (August 2021)

2021
Jill E. Kelly and Omar Badsha, “Teaching South African History in the Digital Age: Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History,” History in Africa 47 (2020)

2020
Rien Fertel, Elizabeth S. Manley, Jenny Schwartzberg, and Robert Ticknor, “Teaching in the Archives: Engaging Students and Inverting Historical Methods Classes at the Historic New Orleans Collection,” The History Teacher 53, no. 1 (November 2019)

2019
Sam Wineburg, Mark Smith, and Joel Breakstone, “What Is Learned in College History Classes?” Journal of American History 104 (March 2018)

2018
Leah Shopkow, "How Many Sources Do I Need," The History Teacher 50, no. 2 (February 2017)

2017
Laura Muñoz, "Civil Rights, Educational Inequality, and Transnational Takes on the US History Survey," History of Education Quarterly 56, no. 1 (February 2016)

2015
Peter Burkholder, "A Content Means to a Critical Thinking End: Group Quizzing in History Surveys," The History Teacher 47, no. 4 (August 2014): 551-78

2014
Lendol Calder, "The Stories We Tell," OAH Magazine of History 27, no. 3 (2013): 5-8

2013
Tim Keirn and Eileen Luhr, "Subject Matter Counts: The Pre-Service Teaching and Learning of Historical Thinking," The History Teacher 45, no. 4 (2012): 493-511

2012
Avishag Reisman, "The Document Based Lesson," Journal of Curriculum Studies 44, no. 2 (April 2012): 233-64

2011
Steven Corey, "Pedagogy and Place: Merging Urban and Environmental History with Active Learning," Journal of Urban History 36, no. 1 (January 2010), 28-41

2009
Julia Clancy-Smith, "An Undergraduate and Graduate Colloquium in Social History and Biography in the Modern Middle East and North Africa" in Teaching Life Writing Texts

2007
Sam Wineburg, Ariel Duncan, Susan Mosborg, and Dan Porat, "Common Belief and the Cultural Curriculum: An Intergenerational Study of Historical Consciousness," American Educational Research Journal 44, no. 1 (March 2007): 40-76

2005
Mark Carnes, "Inciting Speech," Change Magazine (March/April 2005)

2003
Carl Guarneri, "Internationalizing the United States Survey Course: American History for a Global Age," The History Teacher 36, no. 1 (November 2002): 37-64

2001
Dan Segal, "Western Civ and the Staging of History in American Higher Education," American Historical Review 105, no. 3 (June 2000)

1999
Peter Seixas, "Student Teachers Thinking Historically," Theory and Research in Social Education 26, no. 3 (Summer 1998)

1995
Nora Faires and John Bukowczyk, "The American Family and the Little Red Schoolhouse: Historians, Class, and the Problem of Cultural Diversity," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, vol. 19