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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.

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 in ===Awarded to an author for a book on European history from ancient times to 1815===Vittoria Di Palma (Univ. of Southern California) for Wasteland: A History (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)

Vittoria Di Palma, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300197799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=The George Louis Beer Prize in European international history since 18951789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300197799&linkCode=Vanessa Ogle (Univ. of Pennsylvania) for The Global Transformation of Timeas2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e7f7f4705241e297fd51a15f966fccee Wasteland: 1870–1950 A History]</i> (Harvard Yale Univ. Press, 20152014)

===The Jerry Bentley George Louis Beer Prize in world history===Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin) Awarded to an author for Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge Univbest new book on covering European international history since 1895. Press, 2015)

Vanessa Ogle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674286146/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674286146&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=Ann Twinam (Univ. 23e636f6a02ff73145ffc405bc6f2ca4 The Global Transformation of Texas at Austin) for Purchasing WhitenessTime: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies 1870–1950]</i> (Stanford Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

===The Paul Birdsall Jerry Bentley Prize in European military and strategic history since 1870===Bruno Cabanes (Ohio State Univ.) Awarded for The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)===The James Henry Breasted Prize in any field of history prior to CE 1000===Hina Azam (Univ. of Texas at Austin) for Sexual Violation best new book in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure (Cambridge UnivWorld History. Press, 2015)

Michael Goebel, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107421357/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=The Albert B. Corey Prize in the history of Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107421357&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId= Robert MacDougall (Univ. of Western Ontario) for The People’s Networke26ca82eaa53eef0164a527fbf68c52d Anti-Imperial Metropolis: The Political Economy Interwar Paris and the Seeds of the Telephone in the Gilded Age Third World Nationalism]</i> (Cambridge Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 20142015)

===The John KAlbert J. Fairbank Prize for East Asian history since 1800Beveridge Award===Barak Kushner (Univ. Given to an author who has written the best new history of Cambridge) for Men to Devilsthe United States, Latin America, or Canada, Devils from 1492 to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Harvard Univthe present. Press, 2015)

Ann Twinam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804750939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 14850804750939&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=R. F. Foster (Univ. of Oxford) 92eb6a008af900bd4344c1a36a859dc9 Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation Social Mobility in Ireland, 1890–1923 the Spanish Indies]</i> (W.WStanford Univ. Norton & CompanyPress, 2015)

===The Leo Gershoy Award in the fields of 17th- and 18th-century western European historyPaul Birdsall Prize===Alexandra Shepard (Univ. Awarded to the author of Glasgow) for Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, the best new book covering European military and the Social Order in Early Modern England (Oxford Univstrategic history since 1870. Press, 2015)

Bruno Cabanes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107604834/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=The Clarence H. Haring Prize for a Latin American who has published the most outstanding book in Latin American history during the preceding five years1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107604834&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=Antonio García de León bee3a43c80b8194beca28fba0dc57d26 The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México) for Tierra Adentro, Mar en Fuera: El Puerto de Veracruz y su Litoral a Sotavento, 1519–1821 (Fondo de Cultura Economica USAPress, 20112015)

===The Friedrich Katz James Henry Breasted Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history===Edward Beatty (Univ. The Breasted Prize is awarded to best new book covering any field of Notre Dame) for Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (Univhistory prior to CE 1000. of California Press, 2015)

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=== This award is given to the best new history 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===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 (Univ, <i>[https://www.amazon. of Illinois at Chicago) for 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)

Nancy Rose Hunt (Univ, <i>[https://www. of Florida and Univamazon. of Michigan) for com/gp/product/0822359650/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822359650&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0456f941187e0b82d69f46d41b6949bc A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo ]</i> (Duke Univ. Press, 2015)

Father Peter J. Powell (Newberry Library), editor, for <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803238223/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803238223&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=75ec3b328ccda1bff5cd157d645b32f5 In Sun’s Likeness and Power: Cheyenne Accounts of Shield and Tipi Heraldry, 2 vols.]</i>, by James Mooney (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2013)

[[File:Border_Law.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood</i> by Deborah A. Rosen (Lafayette Coll]]Deborah A. Rosen, <i>[https://www.amazon.) for 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)

Ethan B. Katz (Univ, <i>[https://www. of Cincinnati) for amazon.com/gp/product/0674088689/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674088689&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f2a50d5c202e97312ec03a4ff66ab5cf The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France ]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

Stefano Dall’Aglio (Univ. of Edinburgh) and the late Donald Weinstein (Univ. of Arizona), translator, for <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300189788/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300189788&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8bee09abb1911134f4f0223666d46663 The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici ]</i> (Yale Univ. Press, 2015)

Thomas W. Laqueur (Univ, <i>[https://www. of California, Berkeley) for amazon.com/gp/product/0691157782/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0691157782&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c91e58ae0e5ed73c2b9d6d3e9295b5fe The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains ]</i> (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015)

[[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)

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)

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)

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)

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)