The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites nominations for the 2014 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, an annual award for outstanding scholarship in American art history. Single-author books devoted to any aspect of the visual arts of the United States and published in the three previous calendar years are eligible. To nominate a book, send a letter explaining the work’s significance to the field of American art history and discussing the quality of the author’s scholarship and methodology. Self-nominations and nominations by publishers are not permitted.

The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2013. For more information about the book prize and application requirements, please visit the grant posting.

For information on other grants and prizes in history, see the “Awards and Fellowships” section of the AHA Calendar.

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