Henry Adams Prize

Der Henry Adams Prize i​st ein jährlich v​on der 1979 gegründeten Society f​or History i​n the Federal Government verliehener Preis für e​ine herausragende Publikation über US-amerikanische Geschichte u​nd speziell Geschichte US-amerikanischer Regierungsinstitutionen. Er i​st nach Henry Adams benannt, d​er ein mehrbändiges Standardwerk über d​ie Geschichte d​er Vereinigten Staaten u​nter der Regierung v​on Thomas Jefferson u​nd James Madison verfasste. Dabei h​ielt er i​n Washington D.C. e​ngen Kontakt z​u den damaligen Regierungsstellen.

Er w​ird an Autoren o​der Herausgeber verliehen. Ausgezeichnet werden können n​eben Monographien a​uch andere Formate historischer Werke w​ie Aufsatzsammlungen o​der Essays.

Preisträger

Preisträger waren:[1]

  • 1984 J. Merton England A Patron for Pure Science: The National Science Foundation’s Formative Years, 1945-57, Washington: National Science Foundation, 1982
  • 1985 Steven L. Rearden History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Volume 1: The Formative Years, 1947-1950, Washington: Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1984
  • 1986 Charles Joseph Gross United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History. Prelude to the Total Force: The Air National Guard, 1943-1969. General Histories, Washington: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1985
  • 1987 Michael Kammen That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture, New York: Knopf, 1986
  • 1988 Roger M. Anders Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts from the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987, ehrenhafte Erwähnung: Maurer: United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History. Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919–1939. General Histories, Washington: Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, 1987
  • 1989 Robert C. Byrd, Mary Sharon Hall: The Senate, 1789-1989: Volume 1. Addresses on the History of the United States Senate. Senate document, 100-20. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1988
  • 1990 Richard G. Hewlett, Jack M. Holl Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. California Studies in the History of Science, v. 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, Ehrenvolle Erwähnung: William M. Hammond: Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962–1968. United States Army in Vietnam. Washington: Center for Military History, United States Army, 1988.
  • 1991 Victoria Angela Harden Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease. The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
  • 1992 Donald A. Ritchie: Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
  • 1993 Graham A. Cosmas, Albert E. Cowdrey The Medical Department: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations. United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services, Washington: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1992
  • 1994 Howard E. McCurdy Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program. New Series in NASA History, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
  • 1995 Todd A. Shallat Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. American Studies Series, Austin: University of Texas, 1994.
  • 1996 Richard F. Hamm Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920. Studies in Legal History, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995
  • 1997 David E. Kyvig Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996, Jonathan J. Bean Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936-1961. Business, Society, and the State, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • 1998 Jack M. Holl, Richard G. Hewlett, Ruth R. Harris Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-1996. Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997
  • 1999 Linda Flint McCelland Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
  • 2000 Michael D. Pearlman Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. Modern War Studies, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1999.
  • 2001 David F. Rudgers Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000.
  • 2002 Donald Worster A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • 2003 Rick Atkinson An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Michael R. Gardner Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
  • 2004 Alan Kraut Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader, New York : Hill & Wang, 2003. Neil Smith American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
  • 2006 Alice Kaplan The Interpreter, New York: Free Press, 2005
  • 2007 Craig Nelson Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations, New York: Viking, 2006
  • 2008 William C. Harris Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2007
  • 2009 Kathleen Burk Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.
  • 2010 John Prados Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945–1975, University of Kansas Press, 2009
  • 2011 Susan Dunn Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010
  • 2012 John V. Quarstein: The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union ’s First Ironclad, Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011
  • 2013 Walter Stahr Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012
  • 2014 A. Scott Berg, Wilson, New York: Putnam, 2013
  • 2015 J. Douglas Smith, On Democracy’s Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought “One Person, One Vote” to the United States, Hill and Wang
  • 2016 Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, W.W. Norton
  • 2017 Matthew Dallek, Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • 2018 S. Deborah Kang, The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954, Oxford University Press, 2017
  • 2019 Matthew R. Pembleton, Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug War, University of Massachusetts Press, 2017[2]
  • 2020 Glen R. Asner, Stephen J. Garber, Origins of 21st Century Space Travel, Selbstverlag, 2019
  • 2021 Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, Princeton University Press, 2020

Einzelnachweise
  1. Preisträger bis 2018, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, abgerufen am 8. April 2021
  2. 2019 SHFG Award Winners. In: mailchi.mp. Abgerufen am 9. April 2019.
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