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The Society of American Historians Awards Nell Painter, Bench Ansfield, and Adelaide Mandeville

Stephen Berry
Daphne Brooks
Ava Chin
Matthew Connelly
Peter Cozzens
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Ian Frazier
Anne Hyde
Daniel Immerwahr
Robert Korstad
Kati Marton
​​John McGreevy
Margaret O’Mara
Annelise Orleck ​​
Miriam Pawel
Russell Shorto
Marc Stein
Alexandra Minna Stern
James Tejani
Ilyon Woo

Our new executive officers are:
Craig Steven Wilder, president
Kelly Lytle Hernández, vice president
Newly elected to the executive board for terms beginning on May 11 are: Keisha Blain, David Grann, Janice Nimura, and Ted Widmer.
Returning for a second term are: Jonathan Alter, Amanda Foreman, and Nell Painter.

The Society of American Historians Awards James Grossman, Jon Grinspan, Brinda Charry, and Joshua Lappen

We are happy to welcome our newest members, elected by the Society in recognition of the literary merit in their writing or presentation of American history: 

Andrés Resendez
Maurice Isserman
Keisha Blain
Bruce Dorsey
Harriet Washington
Natasha Zaretsky
Blair L.M. Kelly
Aaron Sachs
Kendra Taira Field
Sonia Hernandez
Chad Williams
Noliwe Rooks
Stuart Blumin
Hector Galán
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Ann Hagedorn
Megan Black
Erika Pérez
James Kirchick
Katherine Howe

We are pleased to welcome our newest board members and executive officers. A full list of board members can be found here.

We are happy to welcome our newest members, elected by the Society in recognition of the literary merit in their writing or presentation of American history: 

Ned Blackhawk
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Larry Glickman
Cindy Hahamovitch
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Margaret Jacobs
Susan Lee Johnson
Matthew Karp
Erika Lee
Beth Lew-Williams
Andrew Lipman
Jen Manion
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Tamika Nunley
Kathryn Olmsted
Nayan Shah
Brenda Stevenson
Katherine Turk
David Waldstreicher
Kidada Williams

Society of American Historians Awards Paul Chaat Smith, David Waldstreicher, and Sophie FitzMaurice

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2023 prizes:

●The fourth annual Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance is awarded to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

We are happy to welcome nineteen new fellows--scholars, independent writers, journalists, and public historians—who have been elected by the current membership in recognition of the literary merit of their presentation of history:

Bathsheba Demuth
Jim Downs
Marisa Fuentes
Monica M. Martinez
Kate Masur
Jennifer Morgan
Kevin Mumford
Premilla Nadasen
Janice Nimura
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Eric Rauchway
George Sanchez
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz
John Stauffer
Rachel Swarns
John Wood Sweet
Ted Widmer
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Rosemarie Zagarri