Organization of American Historians

Organization of American Historians Awards and Prizes
https://www.oah.org/awards/

Book Awards and Prizes – Deadline: October 1, 2022

Ray Allen Billington Prize
https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/ray-allen-billington-prize/
Given every two years for the best book on the history of native and/or settler peoples in frontier, border, and borderland zones of intercultural contact in any century to the present and to include works that address the legacies of those zones.

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.

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, 2022 and November 1, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2022

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: December 15, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2023

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.

2024 Book Award – Deadline: October 1, 2023

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.

2024 Article Award – Deadline: May 1, 2023

David Thelen Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/article-essay-awards/david-thelen-award/
Given every two years for the best article on American history written in a language other than English.

2025 Book Award – Deadline: May 1, 2024

Willi Paul Adams Award
https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/willi-paul-adams-award/
Given every two years for the best book on American history published in a language other than English.