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Fabian and Lewis assume office

Ann Fabian, Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies, emerita, at Rutgers University, takes office as president of the SAH.

Assuming the vice presidency is Jan Lewis, Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-Newark.

Newly elected members of the Executive Board are Mia Bay, Beth Bailey, David Blight, Eric Foner, James Grossman, Christine Heyrman, and Alice Kessler-Harris.

Christina Snyder wins the 2018 Parkman Prize

The 61st annual Francis Parkman Prize is awarded to Christina Snyder for Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press).

SAH Honors William Cronon, an Advocate for Academic Freedom, and Two Others for Literary Merit in Historical Writing

May 22, 2017, NEW YORK, N.Y.—Three prizes honoring historical writing of exceptional literary merit are awarded by the Society of American Historians (SAH) at Columbia University today at its annual dinner at The Century Association in New York City. The Society, founded in 1939 by Allan Nevins, an American journalist and historian, encourages and promotes literary distinction in the writing and presentation of American history.

Mary Beth Norton is President-Elect of the AHA

The Society congratulates past SAH president Mary Beth Norton on her new position as president-elect of the American Historical Association. She will become AHA president in 2018.

May 16, 2016--Society of American Historians Honors Anne Firor Scott And Two Others for Literary Distinction in Historical Writing

Three prizes honoring historical writing of exceptional literary merit are awarded by the Society of American Historians at Columbia University today at its annual dinner at The Century Association in New York City. The Society, founded in 1939 by Allan Nevins, an American journalist and historian, encourages and promotes literary distinction in the writing and presentation of American history.

August 4, 2015

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2016 Francis Parkman and Allan Nevins prize competitions. See "How to Submit," under the "Prizes" tab, for details.

May 27, 2015--Mark Carnes's Remarks on the Death of Ene Sirvet

Read at Ene's memorial service at Faculty House.

The Society of American Historians does not normally make note of the death of members. The most fitting tribute for a writer is the words and books he or she leaves to posterity.

But the officers of the Society have asked that I share a few words on Ene Sirvet, who died last month. For nearly fifty years Ene served as the secretary for the Society.

May 11, 2015--David Levering Lewis's Remarks upon Receiving the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award

Read them here.

May 11, 2015--SAH Honors Four Authors for Literary Distinction in Historical Writing

At its annual dinner in New York on May 11, the Society of American Historians honored historical writing of exceptional literary merit.

The 8th annual Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for distinguished writing in American history of enduring public significance, given jointly with the Roosevelt Institute, was presented to David Levering Lewis.

May 11, 2015--New Officers, Board Members, and Fellows

At the close of the annual dinner on May 11, David Nasaw was succeeded as the Society's president by Jill Lepore, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. The author and journalist Tony Horwitz assumed the vice presidency.

Elected to the executive board were George Chauncey, Ann Fabian, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jane Kamensky, Fredrik Logevall, and Tiya Miles.

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