Loubat Prize
# Loubat Prize

The Loubat Prize was a pair of prizes awarded by Columbia University every five years between 1898 and 1958 for the best social science works in the English language about North America.

The awards were established and endowed by Joseph Florimond, Duc de Loubat in 1893. The awards were given "in recognition of the best works printed in the English language on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology, or numismatics of North America."

Note that Loubat Prizes were also awarded to acknowledge outstanding social science works about North America in a number of European countries from e.g. The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Winners of the Loubat Prize :

| Year | Awardee | Award |
| - | - | - |
| 1898 | William Henry Holmes for Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Provinces | $1,000 |
| 1913 | George Louis Beer for The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 | $1,000 |
| 1913 | John Reed Swanton for Tlinget Myths and Texts and Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coasts of the Gulf of Mexico | $400 |
| 1918 | Clarence Walworth Alvord for The Mississippi Valley in American Politics | $1,000 |
| 1918 | Herbert Ingram Priestley for José de Galvez, Visitor-General of New Spain, 1765-1771 | $400 |
| 1923 | Justin Harvey Smith for The War with Mexico | $1,000 |
| 1923 | William Henry Holmes for Handbook of American Aboriginal Antiquities | $400 |
| 1933 | Charles O. Paullin and John Kirtland Wright for Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States | $1,000 |
| 1933 | Walter Prescott Webb for The Great Plains | $400 |
| 1938 | Samuel E. Morison for The Founding of Harvard College and Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century | $1,000 |
| 1938 | Samuel Kirkland Lothrop for Cocle: An Archaeological Study of Central Panama, Part I | $400 |
| 1943 | Sylvanus G. Morley for The Inscriptions of Peten | $1,000 |
| 1943 | Edmund Cody Burnett for The Continental Congress | $400 |
| 1948 | Lawrence H. Gipson for The British Empire Before the American Revolution | $1,000 |
| 1948 | Hans Kurath for Linguistic Atlas of New England | $400 |
| 1953 | James G. Randall for Midstream–Lincoln the President | $1,000 |
| 1953 | Ralph H. Brown for Historical Geography of the United States | $500 |
| 1958 | Douglas S. Freeman for George Washington: A Biography | $1,200 |
| 1958 | Henry A. Pochmann for German Culture in America, 1600-1900 | $600 |
