Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement

The Bruce Catton Prize is awarded for lifetime achievement in the writing of history. In cooperation with American Heritage Publishing Company, the society in 1984 initiated the biennial prize that honors an entire body of work. It is named for Bruce Catton, prizewinning historian and first editor of American Heritage magazine. The prize consists of a certificate and 2,500 dollars.

Past Winners

2006		David Herbert Donald
2004		David Brion Davis
2002		Gerda Lerner
2000		Bernard Bailyn
1998		Richard N. Current
1996		Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
1994		John Hope Franklin
1992		Edmund S. Morgan
1990		Henry Steele Commager
1988		Richard B. Morris
1986		C. Vann Woodward
1984		Dumas Malone