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Unlike other historical association, any historian [[File:Global_Time.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950</i> by Vanessa Ogle]] The American Historical Association is the largest and most comprehensive history society in the United States can become a member of the AHA. Basically, every historical flavor of history is represented in the AHA and it is the largest historical association in the United States. ThereforeUnsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number of awards prizes to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes.
===The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European history from ancient times to 1815===
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While the list is largelong, it is a great place to find great new history books on a lot of different topics. The breadth of subject of the books on the AHA prizes is remarkable. ===The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize===Awarded to an author for a book on European history from ancient times to 1815.
Vittoria Di Palma, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300197799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300197799&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e7f7f4705241e297fd51a15f966fccee Wasteland: A History]</i> (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)
===The George Louis Beer Prize in ===Awarded to an author for the best new book on covering European international history since 1895===.
Vanessa Ogle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674286146/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674286146&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=23e636f6a02ff73145ffc405bc6f2ca4 The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Jerry Bentley Prize in world history===Awarded for the best new book in World History.
Michael Goebel, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107421357/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107421357&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e26ca82eaa53eef0164a527fbf68c52d Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Albert J. Beveridge Award on === Given to an author who has written the best new history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present===.
Ann Twinam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804750939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804750939&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=92eb6a008af900bd4344c1a36a859dc9 Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies]</i> (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Paul Birdsall Prize in === Awarded to the author of the best new book covering European military and strategic history since 1870===.
Bruno Cabanes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107604834/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107604834&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bee3a43c80b8194beca28fba0dc57d26 The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
===The James Henry Breasted Prize in === The Breasted Prize is awarded to best new book covering any field of history prior to CE 1000===.
Hina Azam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K0TMEAO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01K0TMEAO&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1838bae85a252a01b48c073399bb702b Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Albert B. Corey Prize in === This award is given to the best new history of book examining Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries=== . [[File:The_Peoples_network.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|The People's Network by Robert MacDougall]]
Robert MacDougall, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812245695/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812245695&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1c798dae17786f798cb0b786cf01463d The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age]</i> (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
===The John K. Fairbank Prize === Awarded to the historian with the best book for East Asian history since 1800===.
Barak Kushner, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674728912/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674728912&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=284a7f3dfc78317614349c6ffce46b6f Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Morris D. Forkosch Prize === Given to the best new book in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485===.
R. F. Foster, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082792/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393082792&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=014a9f89554b3f6d99b6be7882cec5af Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923]</i> (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015)
===The Leo Gershoy Award === This prize goes to the best book in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European history===.
Alexandra Shepard, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199600791/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199600791&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=89482aa716297b1563299656960ad937 Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England]</i> (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Clarence H. Haring Prize for ===Awarded to a Latin American historian who has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five years===.
Antonio García de León, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/607502087X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=607502087X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=d83ceec4da1fde3059a8adc1cf0efb26 Tierra Adentro, Mar en Fuera: El Puerto de Veracruz y su Litoral a Sotavento, 1519–1821]</i> (Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 2011)
===The Friedrich Katz Prize === Given to the historian with the best new book in Latin American and Caribbean history===.
Edward Beatty, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520284909/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0520284909&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=02f485a385ac83a71b67e6949e1bb804 Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico]</i> (Univ. of California Press, 2015)
<dh-ad/> ===The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize === Awarded for the best new book in women’s history and/or feminist theory===.
Keely Stauter-Halsted, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801454190/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0801454190&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=57bd8247144d627206947c3a6db1e5bb The Devil’s Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland]</i> (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined===
[[File:Border_Law.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood</i> by Deborah A. Rosen]]
Deborah A. Rosen, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674967615/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674967615&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5a832ff8ac413c7d57c487d0accb4f4c Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
===The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century===
[[File:Frontiers_of_Possession.jpg|thumbnail|250px|<i>Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas</i> by Tamar Herzog (Harvard Univ]]Tamar Herzog, <i>[https://www.amazon.) for com/gp/product/0674735382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674735382&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=20f74239826f63ccd660e0cb77289d7d Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas ]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Premio del Rey in the field of early Spanish history===
Núria Silleras-Fernández (Univ, <i>[https://www. of Colorado Boulder) for amazon.com/gp/product/B013DVDAFO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B013DVDAFO&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=18d6d8dcd8dbe3b6fb86fbaeb4ab0c85 Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia ]</i> (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
===The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history===
Nayanjot Lahiri (Ashoka Univ, <i>[https://www.amazon.) for com/gp/product/0674057775/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674057775&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ab93217a668322f34e03fe0a5b5fccdc Ashoka in Ancient India ]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora===
Paul Lerner (Univ, [https://www.amazon. of Southern California) for com/gp/product/B00VWRJ48E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00VWRJ48E&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=cc0bfa6aaab8319e55b9aefc2e68abfe The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880–1940 ] (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015)
===The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history===
Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ, <i>[https://www.amazon.) for com/gp/product/0821421808/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0821421808&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e957e21324b5bc282b827defa61420d3 Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana ]</i> (Ohio Univ. Press, 2015)
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*[[2016 Organization of American Historians Book Awards]]
