Honouring Clio: Book Awards, Historical Scholarship, and Publishers

Academic historians need to publish books in their respective specializations. Only a very few of these historians, however, are honoured with an American Historical Association (AHA) award for their monograph. This exploratory examination of selected AHA awards situates the award-winning monographs vis-à-vis the constellation of scholarly publishers that produced them. We sorted past AHA award winners by the press that published them, the gender of their author, and their area of specialization. The publishers most likely to publish an AHA-award-winning book constitute a small publishing core, yet there is room for a diverse group of publishers in the market for historical monographs.