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OAH DAVID THELEN AWARD WINNERS

[Formerly the Foreign Language Article Prize. Winning articles published in the Journal of American History.]

Foreign Language Article Prize

1994 Arnaldo Testi, "Theodore Roosevelt's Autobiography: The Laborious Construction of a Strong and Masculine Character" (Rivista di Storia Contemporanea, January 1991) [March 1995]

1995 Ute Mehnert, "German Global Politics and the American Two-Front Dilemma: The `Japanese Danger' in German-American Relations, 1904-1917" (Historische Zeitschrift 257, no. 3, 1993) [March 1996] 

1996 Marco Sioli, "Huguenot Traditions in the Mountains of Kentucky: The Memoirs of Daniel Trabue" [March 1998]

1997 François Weil, "Capitalism and Industrialization in New England, 1815-1845," (January-February 1995 Annales, HSS) [March 1998]

1998 Catherine Collomp, "Immigrants, Labor Markets, and the State, a Comparative Approach: France and the United States, 1880-1930," (Annales HSS) [June 1999]

David Thelen Award

1999 Gervasio Luis García, "I Am the Other: Puerto Rico in the Eyes of North Americans, 1898," (Revista De Indias) [June 2000]

2000 Mario Del Pero, University of Bologna, Italy, "The United States and `Psychological Warfare' in Italy, 1948-1955," (Studi Storici , 39) [March 2001]

2001  Axel R. Schäfer, Keele University, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Transatlantic Dimension of Progressivism, 1892-1909," (Macht und Moral: Beiträge zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Aussenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert) [December 2001]

2002  Jürgen Martschukat, University of Hamburg, Germany, "`The Art of Killing by Electricity':  The Sublime and the Electric Chair"  ["`The Art of Killing by Electricity':  Das Erhabene und der Elektrische Stuhl,"] (Amerikastudien/American Studies:  A Quarterly 45:3)
[December 2002]

2004  Simone Cinotto, University of Turin, "Leonard Covello, the Covello Collection, and the History of Eating Habits among Italian Immigrants in New York,," (Quaderni Storici 111, XXXVII:3, December 2002, pp. 719-745) [September 2004]

2006 Manfred Berg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, "Black Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism: The NAACP during the McCarthy Era," [“Schwarze Bürgerrechte und liberaler Antikommunismus in der McCarthy-Ära”] (Vierteljahreshefte fürZeitgeschichte) [June 2007]

2008 Marcus Gräser, University of Frankfurt, "World History in a Nation State: The Transnational Disposition of Historical Writing in the United States" (Oldenbourg Verlag Science) [forthcoming]

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