2021 SAH Tony Horwitz Prize Winner, Lonnie G. Bunch III

Since 1957, when the SAH inaugurated the annual Francis Parkman Prize for the best-written American history, the society's chief activity has been to identify and celebrate distinguished historical writing. The annual Allan Nevins Prize for the publication of a dissertation was established in 1961, and the biennial Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (originally the James Fenimore Cooper Prize) was inaugurated in 1993. The Tony Horwitz Prize for distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance will is awarded for the first time in 2020.

Membership is by invitation only and now stands at about 400. The society is supported by annual contributions from both fellows and publishers and from SAH-authored publications. It is based at Columbia University in New York.

2021 SAH Tony Horwitz Prize Winner, Lonnie G. Bunch III

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