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for the Best Book in English on the History of the United States, Latin America, or Canada 1939-2002 |
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for the Best Book in English on the History of the United States, Latin America, or Canada 1939-2002 |
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MARY A. RENDA
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The Beveridge Award is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present. Books that employ new methodological or conceptual tools or that constitute a significant reinterpretation of an important historical problem are given preference in the awarding of this prize. Biographies, monographs, and works of synthesis or interpretation are eligible; translations, anthologies, and collections of documents are not.
The award was established on a biennial basis in 1939 and has been awarded annually since 1945. It honors U.S. Senator Albert J. Beveridge (Indiana, 1899–1911), a longtime member of the Association and an active supporter of history as both a lawyer and a senator.
The Beveridge Fund was created by a gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Catherine
Beveridge in honor of her husband in 1927. Mrs. Beveridge wrote to the
AHA of her desire for “a separate fund bearing my husband’s name and devoted
to research in American history.” The fund was augmented by donations from
friends of Senator Beveridge and the scope of the award was enlarged to
encompass Latin America and Canada as well as the United States.
| 2002 | Mary A. Renda | Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 |
| 2001 | Alexander Keyssar | The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States |
| 2000 | Linda Gordon | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction |
| 1999 | Friedrich Katz | The Life and Times of Pancho Villa |
| 1998 | Philip D. Morgan | Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry |
| 1997 | William B. Taylor | Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico |
| 1996 | Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
| 1995 | Ann Douglas | Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s |
| 1995 | Stephen Innes | Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England |
| 1994 | Karen Ordahl Kupperman | Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony |
| 1993 | James Lockhart | The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central America, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries |
| 1992 | Richard White | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1615-1815 |
| 1991 | Richard Price | Alabi's World |
| 1990 | Jon Butler | Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People |
| 1989 | Peter Novick | The Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession |
| 1988 | Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al. | Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World |
| 1987 | Mary C. Karasch | Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 |
| 1986 | Alan S. Knight | The Mexican Revolution, Two Volumes |
| 1985 | Nancy M. Farriss | Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival |
| 1984 | Sean Wilentz | Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 |
| 1983 | Louis R. Harlan | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 |
| 1982 | Walter Rodney | History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 |
| 1981 | Paul G.E. Clemens | The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain |
| 1980 | John W. Reps | Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning |
| 1979 | Calvin Martin | Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade |
| 1978 | John Leddy Phelan | The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Columbia, 1781 |
| 1977 | Henry F. May | The Enlightenment in America |
| 1976 | Edmund S. Morgan | American Slavery - American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia |
| 1975 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1700-1823 |
| 1974 | Peter H. Wood | Black Majority |
| 1973 | Richard L. Slotkin | Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1850 |
| 1972 | James T. Lemon | The Best Poor Man's Country |
| 1971 | Carl M. Degler | Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States |
| 1971 | James J. Rothman | The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic |
| 1970 | Sheldon Hackney | Populism to Progressivism in Alabama |
| 1970 | Leonard L. Richards | "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America |
| 1969 | Sam Bass Warner, Jr. | The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth |
| 1968 | Michael Paul Rogin | The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter |
| 1967 | No Award | |
| 1966 | Herman Belz | Reconstructing the Union: Conflict of Theory and Policy During the Civil War |
| 1965 | Daniel M. Fox | The Discovery of Abundance |
| 1964 | Linda Grant DePauw | The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution |
| 1963 | No Award | |
| 1962 | Walter LaFeber | The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 |
| 1961 | Calvin DeArmond Davis | The United States and the First Hague Peace Conference |
| 1960 | C. Clarence Clendenen | The United States and Pancho Villa |
| 1960 | Nathan Miller | The Enterprise of a Free People: Canals and the Canal Fund in the New York Economy, 1792-1838 |
| 1959 | Arnold M.Paul | Free Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887-1895 |
| 1958 | Paul Conkin | Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program |
| 1957 | David Fletcher | Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico |
| 1956 | Paul Schroeder | The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 |
| 1955 | Ian C.C. Graham | Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707-1783 |
| 1954 | Arthur M. Johnson | The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Enterprise and Public Policy |
| 1953 | George R. Bentley | A History of the Freedman's Bureau |
| 1952 | Clarence Versteeg | Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier |
| 1951 | Robert Twymann | History of Marshall Field and Co., 1852-1906 |
| 1950 | Glyndon G. Van Deusen | Horace Greeley: Nineteenth Century Crusader |
| 1949 | Reynold M. Wik | Steam Power on the American Farm: A Chapter in Agricultural History, 1850-1920 |
| 1948 | Donald Fleming | John William Draper and the Religion of Science |
| 1947 | Lewis Hanke | The Struggle for Justice in the Spanish Conquest of America |
| 1946 | Arthur E. Bestor | Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829 |
| 1945 | John Richard Alden | John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier |
| 1944 | No Award | |
| 1943 | Harold Whitman Bradley | The American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1789-1843 |
| 1942 | No Award | |
| 1941 | Charles A. Barker | The Background of the Revolution in Maryland |
| 1940 | No Award | |
| 1939 | John T. Horton | James Kent: A Study in Conservatism |
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