Awards for Articles

Awards for Books

Award in Public History

Awards to Students

Huntington-WHA Martin Ridge Fellowship

Other Awards

WHA Award Winners  |  2007  |   2006  |   2005  |   2004  |   2003

 

Certain awards -- such as the Bert M. Fireman Award, the Oscar O. Winther Award, or the Award of Merit -- do not require applicants to initiate the award consideration process.

Note: All listed addresses for committee members are mailing addresses. If you have any questions, please contact the WHA office by email wha@umsl.edu or call 314-516-7282.

Arrington-Prucha Prize ($500): for the best article on the history of religion in the West.

Ray Allen Billington Award ($500): annual award for the best journal article in Western history, not published in the Western Historical Quarterly.

Bolton-Cutter Award ($500): annual award for the best journal article on Spanish Borderlands history.

Arrell M. Gibson Award ($500): biennial award for the best essay on the history of Native Americans.

Michael P. Malone Award ($500): biennial award for the best article, essay or commentary on state, provincial, or territorial history in North America appearing in a periodical publication.

Oscar O. Winther Award ($500): for the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly.

Robert G. Athearn Award ($1,000): biennial award for the best book on the twentieth-century West.

Caughey Western History Association Prize ($2,500): for the best book of the year in Western History.

John C. Ewers Award ($500): a biennial award for the best book on the topic of North American Indian Ethnohistory.

W. Turrentine Jackson Award ($1,000): a biennial award for a first published book on the American West.

Joan Paterson Kerr Award ($500): a biennial award for the best illustrated book on the American West.

Hal K. Rothman Book Award ($500): a biennial award for the best book in western environmental history.

Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award ($500): a biennial award for a bibliographic or research work.

Robert M. Utley Award ($500): annual award for the best book on military history of the frontier and western North America.

Autry Public History Prize ($1,000): annual award for work completed that contributes to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or serves as a model of professional public history practice.

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Bert M. Fireman Award ($500): for the best student essay published in the Western Historical Quarterly.

Sara Jackson Award ($500): to support graduate student research.

Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award ($1,500): to support dissertation research.

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Indian Student Conference Scholarship ($500): to support Indian student attendees at the WHA conference.

Trennert-Iverson Scholarship ($500): to support graduate student attendees at the WHA conference.

Huntington-WHA Martin Ridge Fellowship ($2,000): a one month research fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Award of Merit: for outstanding service to the field of western history and to the Western History Association.

Honorary Life Membership: awarded by the WHA President.