Publication Date

November 1, 2006

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Award for Scholarly Distinction

David Brion Davis, Yale University
Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Fritz Stern, Columbia University

Honorary Foreign Member

Ida Blom, University of Bergen, Norway

Troyer Steele Anderson Prize

Linda Shopes, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award

Carole Srole, California State University at Los Angeles

Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award

Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University

Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award

John Lewis, Congressional Representative (5th District, Georgia)

Beveridge Family Teaching Prize

Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School

Book Prizes

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Stephanie Siegmund, The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community, Stanford University Press, 2006

Albert J. Beveridge Award

Louis S. Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, Knopf, 2005

Paul Birdsall Prize

Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam, University of California Press, 2005

James Henry Breasted Prize

Chris Wickham, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800, Oxford University Press, 2005

Albert B. Corey Prize

John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy William Widdis,Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650–1990, University of Pittsburgh Press & University of Calgary , 2005

John E. Fagg Prize

David J. Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 2005

John K. Fairbank Prize

Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China, Columbia University Press, 2006

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2006

Leo Gershoy Award

Howard G. Brown, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon, University of Virginia Press, 2006

Waldo G. Leland Prize

Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds., Marie Cantlon, associate ed., Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Indiana University Press, 2006

Littleton-Griswold Prize

Daniel J. Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830, University of North Carolina Press, 2006

J. Russell Major Prize

Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France, Cornell University Press, 2006

Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize

Frank M. Snowden, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962, Yale University Press, 2006

George L. Mosse Prize

Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist, Cornell University Press, 2005

James Harvey Robinson Prize

Center for History and New Media, World History Matters, at https://worldhistorymatters.com

The John O’Connor Prize is not being awarded this year. The winners of the George Louis Beer Prize, the Premio del Rey Prize, the Clarence H. Harring Prize, the Joan Kelly memorial Prize, the James A. Rawley Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize will be announced in the December issue.