Prizes and Awards: Scholarship
Albert J. Beveridge Award (American Historical Association)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Scott Nelson, 2007, for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
Award for Excellence in Research (New York State Archives)
Carol Sheriff, 1996, for The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Bancroft Prize (Columbia University)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
David Pinkney Prize (Society for French Historical Studies)
Ron Schechter, 2003, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Dixon Ryan Fox Prize (New York Historical Society)
Carol Sheriff, 1996, for The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Emil and Kathleen Sick Book-Lecture Series (University of Washington Press)
Andy Fisher, 2008, for Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Forum for the History of Science in America Book Award
Chandos Brown, 1990, for Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic
Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award (Southern Historical Association)
Ron Hoffman, 2005, for Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat
Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. Award (Association for the Study of Connecticut History)
Chris Grasso, 2000, for A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Political Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
J. Franklin Jameson Award (American Historical Association)
Ron Hoffman, 2005, for Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat
James Rawley Prize (Organization of American Historians)
Cindy Hahamovitch,2012, No Man’s Land
John McClelland Award (Washington State Historical Society)
Andy Fisher, 2008, for "Invasion of the Boardheads"
Leo Gershoy Award (American Historical Association)
Ron Schechter, 2004, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Library of Virginia Award for Nonfiction
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Ron Hoffman, 2001, for Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782
Scott Nelson, 2007, for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
Maryland Historical Society Book Award
Ron Hoffman, 2002, for Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland:A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782, and for Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Artistocrat
Merle Curti Award (Organization of American Historians)
Scott Nelson, 2007, for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
Cindy Hahamovitch, 2012, No Man’s Land
National Award for Arts Writing (Arts Club of Washington)
Scott Nelson, 2007, for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
Outstanding Academic Titles (Choice)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
LuAnn Homza, 2006, for The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources
Plumeri Award (W&M)
Lu Ann Homza
Scott Nelson
Ralph D. Gray Prize (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)
Chris Grasso, for "Skepticism and American Faith: Infidels and Converts in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Richard L. Morton Prize (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
Brett Rushforth, 2003, for "'A Little Flesh We Offer You': The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France"
Susan Kern, 2005, for “The Material World of the Jeffersons at Shadwell”
Wesley-Logan Prize (American Historical Association/Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War