Prize winners honored for scholarship on intercommunal violence in the Balkans, ancient road networks in Peru, music in medieval cathedrals and the origins of modern theme parks, among other topics.

Dan David Prize

ARTnews interviewed the founders of the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains, 2023 Dan David Prize winner Chao Tayiana Maina and Molemo Moiloa.

Anne Doran, ARTnews

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes 2024 Dan David Prize winner Keisha N. Blain

The Economist

The 2025 Dan David Prize winner was honored on April 8 - International Romani Day - in Madrid. Șerban was cited for "making the narratives of the Romani people more visible.”

Simona Fodor, Romania Insider

2025 Dan David Prize winner Beth Lew-Williams honored for “John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law,” which looks at the thousands of laws passed in the US to discriminate against people of Chinese origin.

The New York Times

The film Gipsy Queen, starring 2025 Dan David Prize winner Romanian actress Alina Serban, is the basis of a new campaign for inclusion and education.

Romania Journal

Between 8 and 12 percent of soldiers contracted a venereal disease during the American Civil War. What on earth were they up to? 2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius joins sex historian Dr Kate Lister to discuss syphilis, its spread and its impact.

Betwixt the Sheets, a History Hit podcast

At a time when many Americans are turning their backs on the vax, 2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius explains the surprising story of how vaccines shaped American life

American History Hotline with Bob Crawford

60 years after a Vatican document fundamentally reshaped Catholic-Jewish relations, 2023 Dan David Prize winner and religious scholar Karma Ben Johanan names Oct. 7 and ensuing war in Gaza as trigger for turning point in ties.

Rossella Tercatin, The Times of Israel

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Keisha N. Blain tells the story of Aretha B. McKinley, which has fallen through the cracks of U.S. history, offering a glimpse of the many ways Black women in the U.S. helped shape human rights.

Keisha N. Blain, Made by History

"More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, but it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to - or what they’re remembering," writes 2025 winner Beth Lew‑Williams.

Beth Lew-Williams, The New Yorker

2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person, Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, joins History Shorts to explore memory, justice, trauma, motherhood and unpack what it means to write history from inside moral catastrophe.

History Shorts