Event Details

End: January 8, 2022
More Info: https://www.oah.org/awards/

Book Awards and Prizes – Deadline: October 1, 2021

 

Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/civil-war-and-reconstruction-award/

Given annually for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.

 

Merle Curti Social History Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/merle-curti-award-social-history/

Given annually for the best book in American social history.

 

Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/merle-curti-award-intellectual-history/

Given annually for the best book in American intellectual history.

 

Ellis W. Hawley Prize

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/ellis-w-hawley-prize/

Given annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.

 

Darlene Clark Hine Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/darlene-clark-hine-award/

Given annually for the best book in African American women's and gender history.

 

Lawrence W. Levine Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/lawrence-w-levine-award/

Given annually for the best book in American cultural history.

 

Richard W. Leopold Prize

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/richard-w-leopold-prize/

Given every two years for the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, historical activities of the federal government, documentary histories, or biography written by a U.S. government historian or federal contract historian.

 

Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/liberty-legacy-foundation-award/

Given annually for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.

 

David Montgomery Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/david-montgomery-award/

Given annually for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.

 

Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/mary-nickliss-prize/

Given annually for the most original book in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History (including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776).

 

James A. Rawley Prize

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/organization-of-american-historians-oah-james-a-rawley-prize/

Given annually for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States.

 

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/frederick-jackson-turner-award/

Given annually for a first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history.

 

Dissertation Awards and Prizes – Deadlines: October 1, 2021 and November 1, 2021

 

Lerner-Scott Prize

https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/lerner-scott-prize/

Given annually for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history.

 

John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/john-demilio-lgbtq-history-dissertation-award/ Given annually for the best PhD dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history.

 

Huggins-Quarles Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/dissertation-awards/huggins-quarles-award/

Given annually to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation.

 

Essay Award – Deadline: November 1, 2021

 

Louis Pelzer Memorial Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/article-essay-awards/louis-pelzer-memorial-award/

Given annually for the best essay in American history by a graduate student.

 

Research Fellowship – Deadline: November 1, 2021

 

John Higham Research Fellowship

https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/john-higham-fellowship/

Given annually this fellowship is open to all graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a PhD in American history.

 

Award for Excellence in National Park Service History – Deadline: November 1, 2021

 

Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History

https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/stanton-horton-award/

Given annually to recognize excellence in National Park Service historical efforts that make the NPS a leader in promoting public understanding of and engagement with American history.

 

Teaching Award – Deadline: November 1, 2021

 

Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/tachau-teacher-of-the-year-award/

Given annually to recognize the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education within the field of American history.

 

Film Award – Deadline: January 7, 2022

 

Erik Barnouw Award

https://www.oah.org/awards/uncategorized-awards/erik-barnouw-award/

One or two awards given annually in recognition of outstanding programming on television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of American history.