Leo Gershoy Award

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Leo Gershoy Award
Leo Gershoy Award in Western European History
Awarded for"...the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of 17th- and 18th-century western European history...."
Sponsored by American Historical Association
Date1977;48 years ago (1977)
LocationAHA annual meeting
Country United States
Presented byAHA
Website www.historians.org/award-grant/leo-gershoy-award/

The Leo Gershoy Award is a book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Endowed in 1975 by the Gershoy family and first awarded two years later, the prize commemorates Leo Gershoy, professor of French history at New York University. It was awarded biennially until 1985, and annually thereafter. [1]

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The first recipient of the award was Simon Schama; other distinguished honorees include Robert Darnton, John H. Elliott and Roy Porter. Carla Rahn Phillips of the University of Minnesota has uniquely won the prize on two occasions. [1]

List of prizewinners

Sourced from AHA [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Leo Gershoy Award in Western European History". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  2. "Leo Gershoy Award Recipients". AHA. 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2024-10-22.