OAH - Erik Barnouw Award

Organization: Organization of American Historians

The Erik Barnouw Award, first given in 1983, honors the late Erik Barnouw, Columbia University, a historian of the mass media. One or two awards are given annually in recognition of outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history. The winning film or video program will be screened and the award will be presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the OAH in New York, New York, March 28-31. Only films and video programs released January 1 through December 31 of the current year are eligible for entry.