Christian Habicht
for "Athens, Samos, and Alexander the Great"
Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities
Established in 1982 by a gift from the widow of Henry Allen Moe, to honor the longtime head of the Guggenheim Foundation and president of the American Philosophical Society from 1959 to 1970. It pays particular tribute to his firm commitment to the humanities and those who pursue them. The Moe Prize is awarded annually to the author of a paper in the humanities or jurisprudence read at a meeting of the Society.
Recipients
1996
1995
James McPherson
for "Who Freed the Slaves?"
1994
Bernard Bailyn
for "Thomas Jefferson and the Ambiguity of Liberty"
1993
John P. Larner
for "North American Hero? Christopher Columbus, 1702-2002"
1992
Crawford H. Greenewalt
for "When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed: The Common Man at the Fall of Sardis, ca. 546 B.C."
1991
Ada Louise Huxtable
for "Architectural Criticism"
1990
Henry Hoenigswald
for "Does Language Grow on Trees? Ancestry, Descent, Regularity"
1989
Roland M. Frye
for "'Not of an age, but for all time": A Shakespearean's Thoughts on Shakespeare's Permanence"
1988
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
for "Separation of Powers Now and Then"
Theodore J. Ziolkowski
for "Schinkel's Museum: The Romantic Temple of Art"
1987
Robert R. Palmer
for "The Two Toczuevilles and Two Kinds of History"
1986
Diane Ravitch
for "Politicization and the Schools: The Case of Bilingual Education"
1985
Alfred J. Rieber
for "Businessmen and Business Culture in Pre-Revolutionary Russia"
1984
M. Alison Frantz
for "Multum in Parvo: The Aegean Island of Sikinos"
Edmund Sears Morgan
for "The World and William Penn"
1982
Rensselaer W. Lee
for "The First Illustration of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered"
Jerome Blum
for "Fiction and the European Peasantry: The realist Novel as A Historial Source"
