Loubat Prize
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The Loubat Prize was a pair of prizes awarded by Columbia University every five years between 1913 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about North America.
The awards were established and endowed by Joseph Florimond, Duc de Loubat. The awards were given "in recognition of the best works printed in the English language on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America."
| Year | Awardee | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | George Louis Beer for The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 | $1,000 |
| John Reed Swanton | $400 | |
| 1918 | Clarence Walworth Alvord for The Mississippi Valley in American Politics | $1,000 |
| Herbert Ingram Priestley for José de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain, 1765-1771 | $400 | |
| 1923 | Justin Harvey Smith for The War with Mexico | $1,000 |
| William Henry Holmes for Handbook of American Aboriginal Antiquities | $400 | |
| 1933 | Charles O. Paullin and John Kirtland Wright for Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States | $1,000 |
| Walter Prescott Webb for The Great Plains | $400 | |
| 1938 | Samuel E. Morison for The Founding of Harvard College and Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century | $1,000 |
| Samuel Kirkland Lothrop for Cocle: An Archaeological Study of Central Panama, Part I | $400 | |
| 1943 | Sylvanus G. Morley for The Inscriptions of Peten | $1,000 |
| Edmund Cody Burnett for The Continental Congress | $400 | |
| 1948 | Lawrence H. Gipson for The British Empire Before the American Revolution | $1,000 |
| Hans Kurath for Linguistic Atlas of New England | $400 | |
| 1953 | James G. Randall for Midstream–Lincoln the President | $1,000 |
| Ralph H. Brown for Historical Geography of the United States | $500 | |
| 1958 | Douglas S. Freeman for George Washington: A Biography | $1,200 |
| Henry A. Pochmann for German Culture in America, 1600-1900 | $600 |
[edit] References
- "2 Awards Posthumous". New York Times 3 May 1953: 113.
- "Announce Loubat Prizes". New York Times 9 May 1918: 11.
- "He Is to Receive $1,000 of Columbia Loubat Prize". New York Times 27 May 1948: 26.
- "Literary Awards Made". New York Times 23 Sept. 1958: 30.
- "Loubat Prize Won by Dr. S. G. Morley". New York Times 20 Apr. 1943: 21.
- "March of Nations on Columbia Green". New York Times 7 Jun. 1923: 14.
- "Paullin and Wright Win Loubat Award". New York Times 11 Apr. 1933: 16.
- "Prof. S.E. Morison Wins Loubat Prize". New York Times 9 May 1938: 2.
