OAH - Willi Paul Adams Award

Organization: Organization of American Historians

This award is offered for the best book on American history published in a foreign language. The OAH defines both "history" and "American" broadly. To be eligible, a book should be concerned with the past (recent or distant) or with issues of continuity and change. It should also be concerned with events or processes that began, developed, or ended in what is now the United States. Since the purpose of the award is to expose Americanists to scholarship originally published in a language other than English-to overcome the language barrier that keeps scholars apart-this award is not open to books whose manuscripts were originally submitted for publication in English or by people for whom English is their first language. Each entry must have been published during the two-year period preceding June 30 of the current year.