AHA Prize in European International History

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The AHA Prize in European International History, formerly named the George Louis Beer Prize, is an award given by the American Historical Association for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United States citizen or permanent resident. [1] The prize was created in 1923 to honor the memory of George Beer, a prominent historian, member of the U.S. delegation at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and senior League of Nations official. Described by Jeffrey Herf, the 1998 laureate, as "the Academy Award" of book prizes for modern European historians, [2] it is one of the most prestigious American prizes for book-length history. [3] The European International History Prize is usually awarded to senior scholars in the profession; the American Historical Association restricts its other distinguished European history award, the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, to young authors publishing their first substantial work. The name was changed in 2024. [4]

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Four historians—Edward W. Bennett, Carole Fink, Piotr S. Wandycz, and Gerhard Weinberg—have won the Beer Prize more than once.

List of prizewinners

Source: [5] [4]

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References

  1. "The George Louis Beer Prize for 2014". American Historical Association. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  2. "Historian wins national book award". Ohio University. 8 January 1999. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  3. Mancini, Matthew (2005). Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 189.
  4. 1 2 "AHA Prize in European International History – AHA". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  5. "George Louis Beer Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Archived from the original on 2023-12-02. Retrieved December 22, 2022.