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2009 OAH/ALBC ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGHER EDUCATION AWARDS
In recognition of and to promote significant research and scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and his era in United States history, the Organization of American Historians and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission have created two awards to be given in 2009 to graduate students recognizing work-in-progress on “Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, 1854-1865.”
EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award
To recognize and encourage scholarship in American history in the journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics.
Willi Paul Adams Award
For the best book on American history published in a foreign language.
Erik Barnouw Award
To recognize outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history and/or the promotion of history.
Ray Allen Billington Prize
For the best book in American frontier history, defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others.
Binkley-Stephenson Award
For the best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year (March, June, September, December issues).
Avery O. Craven Award
For the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history. (The exception recognizes and reflects the Quaker convictions of Craven, President of the OAH 1963-64.)
Merle Curti Award
For the best book in social and/or intellectual history.
Ellis W. Hawley Prize
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.
OAH/Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grants
Travel grants to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS annual meeting.
Huggins-Quarles Award
For graduate students of color at the dissertation research stage of their Ph.D. program.
Richard W. Leopold Prize
For best book written by a historian connected with federal, state or municipal government, in the areas of foreign policy, military affairs broadly construed, the activities of the federal government, or biography in one of the foregoing areas.
Lerner-Scott Prize
For the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history.
Lawrence W. Levine Award
For the best book in American cultural history.
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
For the best book on any historical aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the nation's founding to the present.
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award
For the best essay in American history by a graduate student.
James A. Rawley Prize
For the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States.
Tachau Teacher of the Year Award
To recognize the contributions made by precollegiate or classroom teachers to improve history education.
David Thelen Award
For the best article on American history published in a foreign language.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award
For an author's first book dealing with some significant phase of American history.
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