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This list of history awards covers notable awards given to persons, a group of persons, or institutions, for their contribution to the study of history. It is organized by region. The entries name the prize and sponsoring organization, give notes on the purpose or criteria, and where available give the period in which the prize was awarded.
Bancroft Prize. The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. [1] It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, diplomat and attorney, Edgar Addison Bancroft. [2] [3]
The mission of the Peabody Archive is to preserve, protect, and provide access to the moving image and sound materials that reflect the collective memory of broadcasting and the history of the state of Georgia and its people. The collection contains nearly every entry for the first major broadcast award given in the United States. Entries began ...
United States. Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching. American Political Science Association. Developers of effective new approaches to teaching among political scientists. United States. Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. American Society of Criminology.
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [ 1][ 2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society ( ΦΒΚ) [a] is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [2] [3] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776. [4] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at select ...
A. Abbot Payson Usher Prize. Alaskan of the Year awards. Albert B. Corey Prize. Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. American Journalism Historians Association.
The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in honor of the city in England.