AHA Award Recipients

Waldo G. Leland Prize

An honorific prize established by Council in 1981, the Leland Prize recognizes the outstanding reference tool in history over a five-year period. The prize honors Waldo G. Leland (d. 1966), the distinguished contributor to bibliographical guides and a life member of the AHA who served as secretary to the Association from 1909 to 1920.

2011

The New Cambridge History of Islam, 6 vols. (Cambridge University Press), General Editor: Michael Cook (Princeton Univ.)

2006

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
Indiana University Press (2006)
Rosemary Skinner Keller, Union Theological Seminary in
New York, editor
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Graduate Theological Union
of the Pacific, editor
Marie Cantlon, Proseworks, Associate Editor

2001

American National Biography, 24 vols., edited by John A. Garraty, Columbia University, and Mark C. Carnes, Barnard College, Columbia University (Oxford U. Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1999)

1996

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. 5 vols. Barbara A. Tenenbaum, editor in chief, Library of Congress (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996)

1991

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, editor-in-chief. (Macmillan Publishing Co.)

1986

The Historical Atlas of the United States Congressional Districts Kenneth C. Martis, West Virginia U. (Macmillan)

1981

Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, Stephen Thernstrom, ed. (Belknap Press of Harvard U.P.)
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