The Loubat Prize was a pair of prizes awarded by Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 every five years between 1913 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about North America

North America

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.

The awards were established and endowed by Joseph Florimond, Duc de Loubat

Joseph Florimond Loubat

Joseph Florimond Loubat was a U.S. philanthropist. He was ennobled as Duc de Loubat by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.Loubat was born in New York City into a wealthy family...

. The awards were given "in recognition of the best works printed in the English language on the history

History

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, geography

Geography

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, archaeology

Archaeology

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, ethnology

Ethnology

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, philology

Philology

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, or numismatics

Numismatics

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 of North America."

Winners of the Loubat Prize

Year	Awardee	Award
1913	George Louis Beer George Louis Beer George Louis Beer was an American historian.Born in Staten Island, New York, he achieved success in the tobacco business. He studied at Columbia University and lectured on European History there from 1893 to 1897. After retiring from business, he wrote three books on the British-American...  for The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660	$1,000
	John Reed Swanton John R. Swanton John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory...	$400
1918	Clarence Walworth Alvord for The Mississippi Valley in American Politics	$1,000
	Herbert Ingram Priestley for José de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain, 1765-1771	$400
1923	Justin Harvey Smith Justin Harvey Smith Justin Harvey Smith was an American historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War....  for The War with Mexico	$1,000
	William Henry Holmes William Henry Holmes William Henry Holmes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director.-Life:...  for Handbook of American Aboriginal Antiquities	$400
1933	Charles O. Paullin Charles O. Paullin Charles Oscar Paullin was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy.-Early life and education:...  and John Kirtland Wright John Kirtland Wright John Kirtland Wright was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan...  for Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States	$1,000
	Walter Prescott Webb Walter Prescott Webb Walter Prescott Webb was a 20th century U.S. historian and author noted for his groundbreaking historical work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas...  for The Great Plains	$400
1938	Samuel E. Morison for The Founding of Harvard College and Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century	$1,000
	Samuel Kirkland Lothrop Samuel Kirkland Lothrop Samuel Kirkland Lothrop was a New England clergyman.-Biography:He was graduated at Harvard in 1825, and at the Harvard Divinity School in 1828...  for Cocle: An Archaeological Study of Central Panama, Part I	$400
1943	Sylvanus G. Morley for The Inscriptions of Peten	$1,000
	Edmund Cody Burnett for The Continental Congress	$400
1948	Lawrence H. Gipson Lawrence H. Gipson Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History...  for The British Empire Before the American Revolution	$1,000
	Hans Kurath Hans Kurath Hans Kurath was an American linguist of Austrian origin. He was full professor for English and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor...  for Linguistic Atlas of New England	$400
1953	James G. Randall James G. Randall James G. Randall was an American historian, specializing on Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War. He taught at the University of Illinois, , where David Herbert Donald was one of his students and continued his traditions. Born in Indiana, he took a B.A. degree from Butler College...  for Midstream–Lincoln the President	$1,000
	Ralph H. Brown for Historical Geography of the United States	$500
1958	Douglas S. Freeman Douglas S. Freeman Douglas Southall Freeman was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, and author. He is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E...  for George Washington: A Biography	$1,200
	Henry A. Pochmann for German Culture in America, 1600-1900	$600