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[[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. Basically, every flavor of history is represented in the AHA. Unsurprisingly, the AHA awards a massive number of prizes to historians. In 2016, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded 24 book prizes.   

While the list is long, 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===
Awarded to an author for a book on European history from ancient times to 1815.

Vittoria Di Palma, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300197799/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300197799&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e7f7f4705241e297fd51a15f966fccee Wasteland: A History]</i> (Yale Univ. Press, 2014)

===The George Louis Beer Prize===
Awarded to an author for the best new book on covering European international history since 1895.

Vanessa Ogle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674286146/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674286146&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=23e636f6a02ff73145ffc405bc6f2ca4 The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950]</i> (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015)

===The Jerry Bentley Prize===
Awarded for the best new book in World History.

Michael Goebel, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107421357/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107421357&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e26ca82eaa53eef0164a527fbf68c52d Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)

===The Albert J. Beveridge Award=== 
Given to an author who has written the best new history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present.

Ann Twinam, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804750939/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804750939&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=92eb6a008af900bd4344c1a36a859dc9 Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies]</i> (Stanford Univ. Press, 2015)

===The Paul Birdsall Prize=== 
Awarded to the author of the best new book covering European military and strategic history since 1870.

Bruno Cabanes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107604834/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107604834&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=bee3a43c80b8194beca28fba0dc57d26 The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924]</i> (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015)

===The James Henry Breasted Prize=== 
The Breasted Prize is awarded to best new book covering any field of history prior to CE 1000.

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)

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===The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize=== 
Awarded for the best new book in women’s history and/or feminist theory.
Keely Stauter-Halsted, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

===The Martin A. Klein Prize in African history===
Nancy Rose Hunt, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

===The Waldo G. Leland Prize offered every five years for the most outstanding reference tool in the field of history===
Father Peter J. Powell, editor, <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)

===The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly defined===
[[File:Border_Law.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood</i> by Deborah A. Rosen]]
Deborah A. Rosen, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

===The J. Russell Major Prize for French history===
Ethan B. Katz, <i>[https://www.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)

===The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian history or Italian-American relations===
Stefano Dall’Aglio and the late Donald Weinstein, translator, <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)

===The George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500===
Thomas W. Laqueur, <i>[https://www.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)

===The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century===
[[File:Frontiers_of_Possession.jpg|thumbnail|250px|<i>Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas</i> by Tamar Herzog]]
Tamar Herzog, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

===The Premio del Rey in the field of early Spanish history===
Núria Silleras-Fernández, <i>[https://www.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)

===The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history===
Nayanjot Lahiri, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

===The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora===
Paul Lerner, [https://www.amazon.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)

===The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history===
Carina E. Ray, <i>[https://www.amazon.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)

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