The George L. Mosse Prize is a history book prize awarded annually by the American Historical Association for "an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500".
Description
The prize, named after the eminent historian George Mosse, was established in 2000 with funds donated by former students, colleagues, and friends of the late Professor Mosse. Nominated books must be of high scholarly distinction, showing exceptional research accuracy, originality, and literary merit.
Notable winners
Past winners of the prize include:
2025 - Catherine Tatiana Dunlop, The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France 2024 - Ari Joskowicz, Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust 2023 - Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World 2022 - Kira L. Thurman, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms 2021 - Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth 2020 - Joan Neuberger, This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia 2019 - Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster 2018 - Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution 2017 - James T. Kloppenberg, Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought 2016 - Thomas Laqueur, The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains 2015 - Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia 2014 - Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History 2013 - Miranda Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana 2012 - Sophus A. Reinert, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy 2011 - James Johnson, Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic 2010 - Suzanne L. Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire 2009 - Stuart Schwartz, All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World 2008 - Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany 2007 - David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany 2006 - Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist 2005 - Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture 2004 - Siep Stuurman, Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality 2003 - Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoises: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 2002 - Anthony LaVopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-99 2001 - Lionel Gossman, Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas 2000 - Richard Wortman, Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II
See also
List of history awards
References
External links