Louis Morton Memorial Prize in American History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with United States history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2017 recipient: Eamon Murphy '17, "'What Was Man Made For, If Not to Reclaim?': Analyzing 'Washingtonianism' as Political and Social Theory" (Butler, HIST 96.29 Debating Democracy in the Nineteenth Century seminar paper)
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in European History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with European history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2017 recipient: Nikol Oydanich '17, "Ritualized Rule and Rebellion: An Analysis on the Microcosm of Political Life in the British Public School, 1600-1780" (Estabrook, HIST 96.3 Topics in British History seminar paper)
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in Asian, African or Latin American History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with Asian, African or Latin American history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2017 recipient: Alexander Witherspoon '18, "Railways in China and Japan, 1870-1911: Explaining Divergent Patterns" (Ericson, HIST 97 Independent Study paper)
Louis Morton Memorial Prize in Inter-regional or Comparative History: Awarded annually to the student who has written the best essay dealing with a topic of inter-regional or comparative history for courses offered by faculty of the History Department.
The 2017 recipient: Hannah Markowitz '18, "United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Quaker Justice in Colonial Pennsylvania from 1682-1700" (Musselwhite, HIST 96 Political Thought in Colonial America seminar paper)