Organization of American Historians Book Prizes: Merle Curti Award
Organization of American Historians Book Prizes: Merle Curti Award recognizes merle curti award books represented in The Book Prize Index.
- Winners
- 75
- Finalists
- 0
- Shortlisted
- 0
- Longlisted
- 0
- First year
- 1977
- Latest year
- 2025
- Books
- 83
Deadline
Not yet sourced
Prize amount
Not yet sourced
Criteria / coverage
Active years represented: 1977-present. Best book in American social and/or intellectual history. Since 2004 the committee may name one intellectual-history and one social-history winner, so co-winners are routine. OAH publishes two URLs whose Past Winners lists are identical except for 2017, 2023, 2024 and 2025; only the intellectual-history page is imported to avoid duplicates, with the four divergent years merged in from the social-history snapshot (https://web.archive.org/web/20251208060744id_/https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards-and-prizes/merle-curti-social-history-award/). Archived page covers 1977-2025 (46 year headings; 1978 absent; 78 records including 7 honorable mentions). Post-2003 entries are prefixed 'Intellectual History:' or 'Social History:'; the 2002 winner is embedded inside the 2003 block in the source markup.