The Justin Winsor Prize was awarded by the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...

 to encourage new authors to pursue the study of history in the Western Hemisphere at a time when the study of European history predominated. The award was established in 1896 and named for Justin Winsor

Justin Winsor

Justin Winsor was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.-Background and education:Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor...

 (1831–1896), one of the founders and presidents of the American Historical Association and the long-time Librarian of Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. The award was discontinued in 1938. The American Historical Association's Justin Winsor Prize is not to be confused with the present-day Justin Winsor Prize

Justin Winsor Prize (library)

The Justin Winsor Prize is awarded by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association for the best library history essay. The award was established in 1978 and named for the American Library Association's first president, Justin Winsor...

 awarded annually by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association

American Library Association

The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....

 for the best library history essay.

Award winners

Annual awards

• 1896 Herman V. Ames, The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• 1897 No award
• 1898 No award
• 1899 No award
• 1900 William A. Schaper, Sectionalism and Representation in South Carolina
• 1901 Ulrich B. Phillips, (1877–1934) Georgia and State Rights
• 1902 Charles McCarthy
  Charles McCarthy
  Charles Sidney McCarthy is a retired American mixed martial artist who was featured on The Ultimate Fighter 4.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  , (1873–1921) The Anti-Masonic Party
• 1903 Louise Phelps Kellogg
  Louise Phelps Kellogg
  Louise Phelps Kellogg was a historian, writer, and educatorThe Women’s Education Association, Boston granted her a fellowship that allowed her to continue her education in London and Paris. She earned her bachelors and doctorate degrees in 1897 and 1901 from University of Wisconsin–Madison,...
  
  , (1862–1942) The American Colonial Charter; A Study of Its Relation to English Administration, Chiefly After 1688
• 1904 William R. Manning, The Nootka Sound Controversy
• 1905 No award
• 1906 Annie Heloise Abel
  Annie Heloise Abel
  Annie Heloise Abel was a history professor. After her marriage she was also known as Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson. One of the ablest women historians of her day, she was an acknowledged expert on the history of British and American policy toward natives. Historians consider her most important work...
  
   Henderson , (1860–1939)The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi River

Biennial awards

• 1908 Clarence Edwin Carter, Great Britain and the Illinois Country, 1765–1774
• 1910 Edward Raymond Turner, (1881–1929) The Negro in Pennsylvania; Slavery—Servitude—Freedom, 1639–1861
• 1912 Arthur Charles Cole, (1886–)The Whig Party in the South
• 1914 Mary Wilhelmine Williams
  Mary Wilhelmine Williams
  Mary Wilhelmine Williams specialized in Latin American history. She was on the board of editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1927 to 1933 and was secretary of the Conference on Latin American History in 1928 and 1934.Williams is credited for starting the first collegiate course...
  
  , (1878–1944) Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815–1915
• 1916 Richard J. Purcell, Connecticut in Transition, 1775–1818
• 1918 Arthur M. Schlesinger
  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
  Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. was an American historian. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was also a noted historian.-Life and career:...
  
  , (1888–1965) The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1736–1776
• 1920 Frank Lee Benns, (1889–1867) The American Struggle for the British West India Carrying Trade, 1815–1830
• 1922 Lawrence Henry Gipson
  Lawrence H. Gipson
  Lawrence Henry Gipson was an American historian, who won the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for History...
  
  , (1880–1971) Jared Ingersoll: A Study of American Loyalism in Relation to British Colonial Government
• 1924 Elizabeth B. White, History of Franco-American Diplomatic Relations
• 1926 Lowell Joseph Ragatz, (1897–1978) The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763–1833
• 1928 Fred Albert Shannon
  Fred Albert Shannon
  Fred Albert Shannon was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He had many publications related to the American history, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865.-Biography:Shannon was born February 12, 1893, in...
  
  , (1893–1963) The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865, 2 vols
• 1930 L.W. Labaree, Royal Government in America: A Study of the British Colonial System Before 1783

Reinstituted award

• 1937 Carl Bridenbaugh
  Carl Bridenbaugh
  Carl Bridenbaugh was an American historian of Colonial America. He had an illustrious career, writing fourteen books and editing or co-editing five more, and he was acclaimed as a historian and teacher.-Career:...
  
  , (1903–1992) Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban. Life in America, 1625–1742

External links

• Justin Winsor Prize (1896–1930 and 1936–1938) American Historical Association