The Albert B. Corey Prize is an academic prize, granted jointly by the Canadian Historical Association and American Historical Association every two years for the best historical books on the history of Canada and the United States of America, or Canadian-American relations.[1] The prize has been awarded biennially since 1967, and notable recipients include Gustave Lanctot, Charles Perry Stacey, James Eayrs, and James L. Axtell. [1]

Establishment

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The Albert B. Corey Prize was established in 1967, jointly by the American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association.[1][2] The prize is named after its proposer, Albert B. Corey, who then chaired a joint committee of members from both associations, and suggested establishing such a prize to encourage research in Canadian-American relations.[1]

Recipients

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Year Name Book Source
1967 Gustave Lanctot Canada and the American Revolution (Harvard University Press) [1][3]
1969 Kenneth Bourne Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815–1908 (University of California Press)
1972 Charles Perry Stacey Arms, Men, and Governments: The War Policies of Canada 1939–45 (The Queen's Printer, Ottawa)
1974 Lester Pearson Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson, vol. 1 (1972) and vol. 2 (1973) (University of Toronto Press and Quadrangle Books)
1976 Robert Babcock Gompers in Canada: A Study in American Continentalism before the First World War (University of Toronto Press)
1978 Michael Katz The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-19th-Century City (Harvard University Press)
1980 Robert Bothwell C. D. Howe (McClelland and Stewart)
1982 Guildo Rousseau L'image des Etats-unis dans la litterature quebecoise, 1775–1930 (Editions Naaman)
1984 James Eayrs In Defence of Canada. Indochina: Roots of Complicity (University of Toronto Press)
Gregory Kealey and Bryan Palmer Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labour in Ontario, 1880–1900 (Cambridge University Press)
1986 James Axtell The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (Oxford University Press)
1988 Elizabeth Jane Errington The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
1990 Reginald Stuart United States Expansionism and British North America 1775-1871 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
1992 Richard White The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, Republics in the Great Lakes Regions, 1650-1815 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
1994 Royden Loewen Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds 1850-1930 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
1996 Ernest Clarke The Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776: An Episode in the American Revolution (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press)
1998 Elizabeth Vibert Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-46 (Univ. of Oklahoma Press)
2000 Karen Dubinsky The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooners, Heterosexuality, and the Tourist Industry at Niagara Falls (Rutgers Univ. Press)
2002 Francis Carroll A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2004 Steven High Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-84 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2006 John Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David Smith, and Randy Widdis Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press and Univ. of Calgary Press)
2008 Sharon Roger Hepburn Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada (Univ. of Illinois Press)
2010 David Preston The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
2012 Karen Balcom The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930-73 (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2014 Lissa Wadewitz The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea (Univ. of Washington Press)
2016 Robert MacDougall The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
2018 Ann M. Little The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (Yale Univ. Press)
2020 Jamie Benidickson Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Albert B. Corey Prize | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  2. ^ Team, Linfield News (2014-11-10). "Wadewitz wins Albert B. Corey Prize". Linfield News. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  3. ^ "CHA Prizes". cha-shc.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-12.