Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award är ett facklitteraturpris som ges av Phi Beta Kappa Society, USA: s äldsta akademiska sällskap, för böcker som har gjort de viktigaste bidragen till humaniora. Albert William Levi vann det första av dessa utmärkelser, 1960.
Vinnare
- 1960: Albert William Levi , Philosophy and the Modern World (Indiana University Press)
- 1961: WT Stace , Mysticism and Philosophy (JB Lippincott)
- 1962: Herbert J. Muller , Freedom in the Ancient World (Harper & Brothers)
- 1963: Richard Hofstadter , Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Knopf)
- 1964: Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of An Idea in America (Southern Methodist University Press)
- 1965: Howard Mumford Jones , O Strange New World: American Culture - The Formative Years ( Viking Press)
- 1966: John Herman Randall, Jr. , The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (Columbia University Press)
- 1967: Robert Coles , Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
- 1968: Winthrop D. Jordan , White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (University of North Carolina Press)
- 1969: Peter Gay , Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (Harper & Row)
- 1970: Rollo May , Love and Will (Norton)
- 1971: Charles A. Barker, American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850 (JB Lippincott)
- 1972: John Rawls , A Theory of Justice (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press )
- 1973: Barrington Moore, Jr. , Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and on Certain Proposals to Eliminate them ( Beacon Press)
- 1974: Frederic C. Lane , Venedig: A Maritime Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- 1975: Marshall Hodgson , The Venture of Islam (University of Chicago Press)
- 1976: Paul Fussell , The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford University Press)
- 1977: Eugen Weber , Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford University Press)
- 1978: Bruce Kuklick , The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Yale University Press)
- 1979: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , The Printing Press As an Agent of Change , Volym I och II (Cambridge University Press)
- 1980: Frank E. Manuel och Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- 1981: George M. Fredrickson , White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (Oxford University Press)
- 1982: Robert Nozick , Philosophical Explanations (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- 1983: Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (University of North Carolina Press)
- 1984: David G. Roskies , Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard University Press)
- 1985: Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation ( Oxford University Press)
- 1986: Benjamin I. Schwartz , The World of Thought in Ancient China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- 1987: Alfred W. Crosby , Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge University Press)
- 1988: David Montgomery , The Fall of the House of Labor (Cambridge University Press)
- 1989: Peter Brown , The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early Christianity ( Columbia University Press)
- 1990: William L. Vance, America's Rome, volym I och II (Yale University Press)
- 1991: Carl N. Degler , In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought ( Oxford University Press)
- 1992: Gordon S. Wood , The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)
- 1993: Theda Skocpol , Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- 1994: David Levering Lewis , WEB Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Henry Holt and Company)
- 1995: Caroline Walker Bynum , The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 (Columbia University Press)
- 1996: Eloise Quiñones Keber , Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript (University of Texas Press)
- 1997: Steven B. Smith , Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (Yale University Press)
- 1998: Jill Lepore , The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Alfred A. Knopf)
- 1999: HC Erik Midelfort , A History of Madness in Sexteenth-Century Germany (Stanford University Press)
- 2000: Peter Novick , The Holocaust in American Life (Houghton Mifflin)
- 2001: Debora Silverman , Van Gogh och Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (Straus och Giroux)
- 2002: Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard från Narbonne and the World of the Trubadours ( Cornell University Press)
- 2003: David Freedberg , The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History ( University of Chicago Press)
- 2004: Jennifer Michael Hecht , The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press)
- 2005: Isabel V. Hull , Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany ( Cornell University Press)
- 2006: Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press och Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture)
- 2007: David Brion Davis , Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World ( Oxford University Press)
- 2008: Leor Halevi, Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press)
- 2009: Peter Trachtenberg , The Book of Calamities: Fem frågor om lidande och dess betydelse (Little, Brown and Company)
- 2010: Susan M. Reverby , Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (University of North Carolina Press)
- 2011: Timothy Snyder , Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books)
- 2012: Jay Rubenstein , Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse ( Basic Books)
- 2013: Timothy Egan , Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- 2014: David Nirenberg , Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (WW Norton)
- 2015: Joan Breton Connelly , The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West's Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It ( Knopf)
- 2016: EM Rose , Mordet på William av Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe ( Oxford University Press)
- 2017: Elizabeth Hinton , From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press)
- 2018: Mike Wallace , Greater Gotham: A History of New York City från 1898 till 1919 (Oxford University Press)
- 2019: Sarah E. Igo , The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press)
- 2020: Sarah Seo, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Harvard University Press)
- 2021: Alice Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War ( Basic Books)