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In 1519 the Tlaxcala presented CortΓ©s with a large bone they said belong to a race of giants, as proof of their might. The Spanish accepted this claim, and struck an alliance against the Aztecs.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Mackenzie Cooley is a historian of early modern nature and medicine.
Congratulations to 2022 Dan David Prize winner Natalia Romik whose new book "Architecture of Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe" was recently published by UCL Press.
The book, which is open access, can be downloaded here: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...
When a gravedigger in 1860s Nevada City buried Chinese immigrants without noting their names, he inadvertently left evidence of the erasure of Asian-Americans from the public eye and from history.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Beth Lew-Williams is a historian of race and migration in the modern US.
In 15thC Ethiopia, King YΙsαΈ₯aq decreed the forced conversion of the Beta Israel to Christianity. In defiance, 75 Beta Israel committed suicide; the place of their deaths became a holy site.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Bar Kribus is an archaeologist specializing in the history of the Beta Israel.
Using new forensic methods, archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls and her team found ethical ways uncover Holocaust atrocities despite Nazi attempts to cover them up.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Caroline Sturdy Colls is an archaeologist of the Holocaust and sites of genocide.
What does it mean to tell history?
Who is included and who is forgotten?
These are questions Fred Kuwornu asks in his films, encouraging audiences to think differently about the past.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Fred Kuwornu is an artist and filmmaker.
The rediscovery of the notebooks of John Wickins, Isaac Newtonβs college roommate, paints a new picture of Newton as a collaborator and a friend, rather than a lone genius.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Dmitri Levitin researches early modern history & the history of knowledge.
In 1556 Venice welcomed Bona Sforza of Poland with orations by an old woman & a blind boy, signaling that the power of the Venetian State was expressed through virtue and wisdom, not physical prowess.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Hannah Marcus researches scientific culture in early modern Europe.
The chemical makeup of glass beads found in Nigeria proves that glass-making was invented there independently, not imported, overturning narratives about a non-inventive sub-Saharan Africa.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Abidemi Babalola is an archaeologist of science and technology in West Africa.
Born into Roma slavery in 19thC Moldova, DincΔ begged for freedom to be with the one he loved, but was refused. The tragic events that ensued led to shockwaves that created dramatic social change.
2025 Dan David Prize winner Alina Θerban is a filmmaker whose work highlights Roma history.
Today is the final day to submit a nomination for the 2026 Dan David Prize.
Nominations close at 11:59pm PST β
Submitting a nomination is quick & easy:
- Submit the nomineeβs CV
- Provide a list of relevant work/publications
- Answer 3 brief questions
dandavidprize.org/nominate/
The deadline to nominate someone for the 2026 Dan David Prize is TOMORROW at 11:59pm PST.
Submitting a nomination is quick and easy. Nominators will be asked to provide the nomineeβs CV and list of relevant work or publications, and answer three brief questions.
dandavidprize.org/nominate/
Graphic advertising the call for nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize. Nominees for the 2026 Dan David Prize can come from any field related to the study of the human past, both within academia and outside it, including: History, Art History, Anthropology, Paleontology, Digital Humanities, Museums and Heritage, Public History, Curation and Archaeology.
Only 1 week left to nominate for the 2026 Dan David Prizeβ³
Deadline: Weds 24 Sept, 2025 (11:59pm PST).
Up to 9 early & midcareer scholars & practitioners in the historical disciplines will be awarded $300,000 each in recognition of excellent work & future potential.
dandavidprize.org/nominate/
Do you know a groundbreaking researcher doing excellent work related to history & the human past?
Nominate them for the 2026 Dan David Prize.
Up to 9 early & midcareer scholars & practitioners will be awarded $300,000 each.
Nominations close on September 24, 2025 β
dandavidprize.org/nominate/
Call for Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize.
Nominate an early or midcareer scholar or practitioner for the 2026 Dan David Prize, the world's largest history prize.
Nominators will need to provide the nomineeβs CV and a list of relevant work/publications, and answer a few brief questions.
Deadline: Sept 24, 2025
dandavidprize.org/nominate/
Graphic which lists the types of academic disciplines that nominees for the Dan David Prize may be working in, including History, Art History, Anthropology, Paleontology, Digital Humanities, Museums and Heritage, Public History, Curation and Archaeology.
Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open.
Deadline: Sept 24, 2025β
Up to 9 winners will be awarded $300,000 each.
Nominees can work in any discipline which focuses on the human past, be within or outside of academia, and be based anywhere in the world: dandavidprize.org/nominate/
Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open. Deadline for nominations is September 24, 2025.
Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are openπ£
Nominate bold & creative early or midcareer scholars & practitioners in any discipline related to history and the human past
πWinners are awarded $300K each
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β³Deadline: Sept 24, 2025
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We mourn the passing of Zelig Eshhar, a 2021 Dan David Prize laureate. Eshhar was an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a pioneer of the CAR-T cell approach and its application for cancer therapy.
Image with the photos of the nine winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize. From left to right and top to bottom, they are Mackenzie Cooley, Bar Kribus, Fred Kuwornu, Dmitri Levitin, Beth Lew-Williams, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Hannah Marcus, Caroline Sturdy Colls, Alina Θerban.
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize β the world's largest history prize.
Winners receive $300,000 each in recognition of their contribution to the study of the past and to support their future endeavors.
Congratulations to this year's winners π
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When we think of Viking raiders, we don't tend to think of women & children. However, new bioarchaeological methods have caused us to think again & reassess women & children's roles in Viking society.
2024 Dan David Prize winner Cat Jarman is a public archaeologist specializing in the Viking Age ποΈ
2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person helps Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield uncover his family history on BBC show βWho Do You Think You Are?β
Katarzyna helps Andrew explore why his Jewish ancestors may have left Poland in the early 20th Century.
Those in the UK can watch on BBC Iplayer π
"It is not the celebrated constitution, but the Indian voters themselves that have, over the years, doggedly held authoritarianism at bay. Only time will tell how long they will continue to do this", writes 2024 Dan David Prize winner Tripurdaman Singh, in @uk.theconversation.com
Read hereπ
By 1940, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a working-poor Black woman in the US, had built up >300,000 supporters for her Black nationalist group, the Peace Movement of Ethiopia.
For 2024 DDP winner Keisha N. Blain, it is crucial to tell histories like this, which are so often missing from the narrative.ποΈ
In the long 18thC, bundles of carefully chosen ingredients lent people across the Afro-Atlantic world empowerment & protection, in face of the violent realities of enslavement.
2024 Dan David Prize winner CΓ©cile Fromont studies the visual & material cultures of the Afro-Atlantic world ποΈ
βThe lesson from history is these are not mild ailments...These are diseases that have killed hundreds of millions of people β and quite horribly too.β
2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius is quoted in @theguardian.com providing historical context to the recent measles outbreak in the US π
In 1640s England, stained glass windows in churches were condemned by the Puritan parliament as popish; many were destroyed.
2024 Dan David Prize winner Daniel JΓΌtte researches Early Modern European history. His work asks what we can learn from the history of inconspicuous materials, like glass. ποΈ
In 1619, the process that culminated in British privateers selling the first enslaved Africans in British North America involved global actors & forces, spanning the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Africa & Asia.
2024 Dan David Prize winner Stuart M. McManus is a historian of the global Renaissance. ποΈ
How did someoneβs vulnerability to Yellow Fever make or break their life chances and future prosperity in 19th Century New Orleans?
Listen to 2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius discuss her research on the Road to Now podcast @roadtonow.bsky.social ποΈ
Congratulations to 2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person, who was recently appointed Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum π
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