The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.-Early years:Albert J. Beveridge was born October 6, 1862 in Highland County, Ohio and his parents moved to Indiana soon after his birth, and his boyhood was one of hard work...

 of Indiana

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, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

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 (AHA), through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state. Established on a biennial basis, the award has been given annually since 1945 for the best English-language book on American history (United States

United States

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, Canada

Canada

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, or Latin America

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) from 1492 to the present.

List of the Albert J. Beveridge Award winners:

• 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  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 Twymann  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  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  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: 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  for Alabi's World
• 1992 – Richard White
  Richard White (historian)
  Richard White is an American historian, a past President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author of influential books on the American West, Native American history, and environmental history...
  
   for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
• 1993 – 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  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 for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
• 1997 – 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

External links

• Albert J. Beveridge Award at the American Historical Society
• Albert J. Beveridge Award at lovethebook