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
2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius talks to Bob Crawford about the shockingly atrocious medical practices in field hospitals during the deadliest war in American history.
Bob Crawford, American History Hotline
The 2025 Dan David Prize winner's body of work is define by a transnational gaze and commitment to cultural representation.
Pulse
2025 Dan David Prize winner Fred Kuwornu devoted his career to shedding light on overlooked corners of history and the tangled roots that connect us all.
Neria Barr, The Jerusalem Post
Bioprospecting, says 2025 Dan David Prize winner Mackenzie Cooley, is the ways in which humans harness powers from nature. But we have a tendency to look at the natural world and see what humans can take, she adds.
Lucas Willard, The Best of Our Knowledge
Babalola and Kuwornu join the ranks of other celebrated African recipients of the Dan David Prize, including Professor Saheed Aderinto (Nigeria) and Chao Tayiana Maina (Kenya) in 2024.
Brittle Paper
“By making groundbreaking discoveries or applying new methods to historical research, our winners constantly challenge us to think about the past," says Ariel David, son of Prize founder
The Associated Press
Nine Historians, Archaeologists and Filmmakers Receive $300,000 (USD) Each as the Dan David Prize Honors Innovative Research on the Human Past
The Dan David Prize
2024 Dan David Prize Winner Katarzyna Person helps Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield uncover his Polish-Jewish past on the BBC's hit show "Who do you think you are?"
BBC