Editing Beveridge Award

The '''Albert J. Beveridge Award''' is awarded  by the [[American Historical Association]] (AHA) for the best English-language book on [[American history]] ([[United States]], [[Canada]], or [[Latin America]]) from 1492 to the present. It was established on a biennial basis in 1939 in memory of [[United States Senator]] [[Albert J. Beveridge]] (1862-1927) of [[Indiana]], former secretary and longtime member of the  Association, through a gift from his wife, [[Catherine Eddy Beveridge]] and donations from AHA members from his home state. The award has been given annually since 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/albert-j-beveridge-award|title=Albert J. Beveridge Award|publisher= American Historical Association|accessdate= 4 September 2015}}</ref>

==Recipients==

*1939 – [[John T. Horton]] for '' James Kent: A Study in Conservatism ''
*1941 – [[Charles A. Barker]] for '' The Background of the Revolution in Maryland ''
*1943 – [[Harold Whitman Bradley]] for '' American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1780-1843 ''
*1945 – [[John Richard Alden]] for '' John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier ''
*1946 – [[Arthur Eugene Bestor, Jr.]] for '' Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America: 1663-1829 ''
*1947 – [[Lewis Hanke]] for '' The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America ''
*1948 – [[Donald Fleming (historian)|Donald Fleming]] for '' John William Draper and the Religion of Science ''
*1949 – [[Reynold M. Wik]] for '' Steam Power on the American Farm: A Chapter in Agricultural History, 1850–1920 ''
*1950 – [[Glyndon G. Van Deusen]] for '' Horace Greeley: Nineteenth Century Crusader ''
*1951 – [[Robert Twyman]] for '' History of Marshall Field and Co., 1852–1906 ''
*1952 – [[Clarence Versteeg]] for '' Robert Morris ''
*1953 – [[George R. Bentley]] for '' A History of the Freedman's Bureau ''
*1954 – [[Arthur M. Johnson]] for '' The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Enterprise and Public Policy ''
*1955 – [[Ian C.C. Graham]] for '' Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707–1783 ''
*1956 – [[Paul W. Schroeder]] for '' The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 ''
*1957 – [[David M. Pletcher]] for '' Rails, Mines and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico, 1867-1911 ''
*1958 – [[Paul Conkin]] for '' Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program ''
*1959 – [[Arnold M. Paul]] for '' Free Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887–1895 ''
*1960 – [[Clarence C. Clendenen]] for '' The United States and Pancho Villa;: A study in unconventional diplomacy, ''
*1960 – [[Nathan Miller (economic historian)|Nathan Miller]] for '' The Enterprise of a Free People: Canals and the Canal Fund in the New York Economy, 1792–1838 ''
*1961 – [[Calvin Dearmond Davis]] for '' The United States And The First Hague Peace Conference ''
*1962 – [[Walter LaFeber]] for '' The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898  ''
*1963 – no award given
*1964 – [[Linda Grant DePauw]] for '' The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution ''
*1965 – [[Daniel M. Fox (historian)|Daniel M. Fox]] for '' The Discovery of Abundance ''
*1966 – [[Herman Belz]] for '' Reconstructing the Union: Conflict of Theory and Policy during the Civil War ''
*1968 – [[Michael Paul Rogin]] for '' Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter ''
*1969 – [[Sam Bass Warner, Jr.]] for '' The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth ''
*1970 – [[Leonard L. Richards]] for '' "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America  ''
*1970 – [[Sheldon Hackney]] for '' Populism to Progressivism in Alabama ''
*1971 – [[Carl N. Degler]] for '' Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States ''
*1971 – [[David J. Rothman]] for '' The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic ''
*1972 – [[James T. Lemon]] for '' The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania ''
*1973 – [[Richard Slotkin]] for '' Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 ''
*1974 – [[Peter H. Wood]] for '' Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion  ''
*1975 – [[David Brion Davis]] for '' The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 ''
*1976 – [[Edmund S. Morgan]] for '' American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia ''
*1977 – [[Henry F. May]] for '' The Enlightenment in America  ''
*1978 – [[John Leddy Phelan]] for '' The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781 ''
*1979 – [[Calvin Martin]] for '' Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade  ''
*1980 – [[John W. Reps]] for '' Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning ''
*1981 – [[Paul G. E. Clemens]] for '' The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore ''
*1982 – [[Walter Rodney]] for '' A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905  ''
*1983 – [[Louis R. Harlan]] for '' Booker T. Washington: Volume 2: The Wizard Of Tuskegee, 1901-1915  ''
*1984 – [[Sean Wilentz]] for '' Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 ''
*1985 – [[Nancy M. Farriss]] for '' Maya society under colonial rule: The collective enterprise of survival ''
*1986 – [[Alan S. Knight]] for '' The Mexican Revolution ''
*1987 – [[Mary C. Karasch]] for '' Slave Life in Rio De Janeiro, 1808-1850 ''
*1988 – [[Jacquelyn Dowd Hall]], [[James Leloudis]], [[Robert Korstad]], Mary Murphy, [[Christopher B. Daly]], [[Lu Ann Jones]] for '' [[Like a Family|Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World]]  ''
*1989 – [[Peter Novick]] for '' That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession  ''
*1990 – [[Jon Butler]] for '' Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People  ''
*1991 – [[Richard Price (American anthropologist)|Richard Price]] for '' Alabi's World  ''
*1992 – [[Richard White (historian)|Richard White]] for '' The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815  ''
*1993 – [[James Lockhart (historian)|James Lockhart]] for '' The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries ''
*1994 – [[Karen Ordahl Kupperman]] for '' Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony ''
*1995 – [[Ann Douglas (historian)|Ann Douglas]] for '' Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s ''
*1995 – [[Stephen Innes]] for '' Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England ''
*1996 – [[Alan Taylor (historian)|Alan Taylor]] for '' William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic ''
*1997 – [[William B. Taylor (historian)|William B. Taylor]] for '' Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico ''
*1998 – [[Philip D. Morgan]] for '' Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry  ''
*1999 – [[Friedrich Katz]] for '' The Life and Times of Pancho Villa ''
*2000 – [[Linda Gordon]] for '' The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction ''
*2001 – [[Alexander Keyssar]] for '' The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States ''
*2002 – [[Mary A. Renda]] for '' Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 ''
*2003 – [[Ira Berlin]] for '' Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves ''
*2004 – [[Edward L. Ayers]] for '' In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 ''
*2005 – [[Melvin Patrick Ely]] for '' Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War ''
*2006 – [[Louis S. Warren]] for '' Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show ''
*2007 – [[Allan M. Brandt]] for '' The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America ''
*2008 – [[Scott Kurashige]] for '' The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles ''
*2009 – [[Karl Jacoby]] for '' Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History ''
*2010 – [[John Robert McNeill]] for '' Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 ''
*2011 - [[Daniel Okrent]] for ''Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition'' 
*2012 - [[Rebecca J. Scott]] and [[Jean M. Hebrard]] for ''Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation''
*2013 - [[W. Jeffrey Bolster]] for ''The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail''
*2014 - [[Kate Brown (professor)|Kate Brown]]  for ''[[Plutopia|Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters]]''
*2015 - [[Elizabeth Fenn]] for ''[[Encounters at the Heart of the World|Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People]]'' 
*2015 - [[Greg Grandin]] for ''The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World''
*2016 - [[Ann Twinam]] for ''Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies''
*2017 - [[David Chang (historian)|David Chang]], ''The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration''
*2018 - [[Camilla Townsend]] - ''Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History''
*2019 - [[Nan C. Enstad]] - ''Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism''
*2020 - [[Jeremy Zallen]] - ''American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865''
*2021 - [[Thavolia Glymph]] - ''The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation''
*2022 - [[Roberto Saba]] - ''American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation''
*2023 - [[Kirsten Silva Gruesz]] - ''Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Study of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas''
*2024 - [[Dylan C. Penningroth]] - ''Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights''

==See also==

* [[List of history awards]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.historians.org/prizes/AWARDED/BeveridgeWinner.htm Albert J. Beveridge Award at the American Historical Association]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234515/http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Albert+J.+Beveridge+Award Albert J. Beveridge Award at lovethebook]

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