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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

We are pleased to announce that on Monday evening, May 15, after the announcement of our 2023 prizes,  Philip Deloria takes office as the Society's president, succeeding Annette Gordon-Reed, and Martha A. Sandweiss assumes office as vice president.

●The third annual Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance is awarded to Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.

The word preeminent should be used sparingly, but it should not be spared in honoring Eric Foner. No historian has done more over the past fifty years to shape our understanding of the era of the Civil War.

We are pleased to announce that on Monday evening, May 16, after the announcement of our 2022 prizes,  Annette Gordon-Reed takes office as the Society's president, succeeding Andrew Delbanco, and Philip Deloria assumes office as vice president.

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

Fergus Bordewich
Jamelle Bouie
Ada Ferrer
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Kali Gross
Leslie Harris
Cathy Park Hong
Charles Johnson
Fred Kaplan
Joseph Lelyveld
Lisa Lowe
Natalia Molina
Clay Risen
Stephanie Smallwood
Clint Smith
Jeffrey Stewart
James Traub
Michael Witgen
Ellen Wu

Watch this space for news on our three prizewinners and our newly elected members!