176 History Scholarships

All live scholarships, soonest deadline first

• Presidio La Bahia Award

  $1,200

  Deadline 

  September 1, 2026 · 19 days left

• Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies

  $6,000

  Deadline 

  September 15, 2026 · 33 days left

• ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowship

  $65,000

  Deadline 

  September 28, 2026 · 46 days left

• Avery O. Craven Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Ellis W. Hawley Prize

  $500

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Frederick Jackson Turner Award

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• James A. Rawley Prize

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Lerner-Scott Prize

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Merle Curti Award

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Ray Allen Billington Prize

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Richard W. Leopold Prize

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Roger K. Warlick Fellowship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  October 1, 2026 · 49 days left

• Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Students

  $75,000

  Deadline 

  October 2, 2026 · 50 days left

• Eurasian Regional Languages Grant

  $10,000

  Deadline 

  October 15, 2026 · 63 days left

• American Graduate Fellowships

  $50,000

  Deadline 

  October 17, 2026 · 65 days left

• ARIT/NEH Fellowships

  $50,400

  Deadline 

  November 1, 2026 · 80 days left

• John R. Syme Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  November 1, 2026 · 80 days left

• Junior Fellowships

  $21,000

  Deadline 

  November 1, 2026 · 80 days left

• NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  $40,000

  Deadline 

  November 1, 2026 · 80 days left

• Olivia James Traveling Fellowship

  $25,000

  Deadline 

  November 1, 2026 · 80 days left

• Polaire Weissman Fund

  $20,000

  Deadline 

  November 3, 2026 · 82 days left

• Ruffin Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  November 9, 2026 · 88 days left

• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities

  $24,000

  Deadline 

  November 14, 2026 · 93 days left

• Huntington Fellowships

  $12,500

  Deadline 

  November 15, 2026 · 94 days left

• Chancellor Norford Scholarship

  $4,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Erik Barnouw Award

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Gordon Cain Fellowship in Technology, Policy, and Entrepreneurship

  $42,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Horace Samuel & Marion Galbraith Merrill Travel Grant

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Huggins-Quarles Award

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• I. George Blake Endowed Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Japanese Residencies for U.S. Historians Fellowship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship

  $1,250

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Legal Studies Scholarship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Louis Pelzer Memorial Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

  Essay 

  Required

• Mellon Fellowship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  December 1, 2026 · 110 days left

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies

  Varies

  Deadline 

  December 19, 2026 · 128 days left

• HABS-Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship

  $10,000

  Deadline 

  December 31, 2026 · 140 days left

• Edna V. Moffett Fellowship

  $12,000

  Deadline 

  January 1, 2027 · 141 days left

• Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities

  $35,000

  Deadline 

  January 1, 2027 · 141 days left

• Mary McEwen Schimke Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  January 1, 2027 · 141 days left

• Thomas Jefferson Fellowship

  $9,000

  Deadline 

  January 1, 2027 · 141 days left

• Baird Society Resident Scholar

  Varies

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• Edelstein International Fellowship

  $38,000

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• George E. Mylonas Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• Lois McNeil Dissertation Fellowship

  $14,000

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• NEH Fellowship

  $30,000

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• Summerfield G. Roberts Award

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

  Essay 

  Required

• Winterthur Program in Early American Culture

  Varies

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• Winterthur Research Fellowship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  January 15, 2027 · 155 days left

• Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

  $30,000

  Deadline 

  January 21, 2027 · 161 days left

• Riley Hamm Award

  Varies

  Deadline 

  January 30, 2027 · 170 days left

• Virginia L. Radley Fellowship

  $1,550

  Deadline 

  January 30, 2027 · 170 days left

• Fellowship in New England History and Culture

  $750

  Deadline 

  January 31, 2027 · 171 days left

• Research Grant

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  January 31, 2027 · 171 days left

• Ardath Louise Fogelsanger History Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Bonnie C. Henzel Memorial Scholarship

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Catharine Gould Chism Scholarship

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Dr. Roland R. De Marco '30 Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• George F. Kennan Fellowship

  $1,250

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• George O'Connor Scholarship

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Herbert and Eleanor Sack Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Hilda and Harold McCleave Endowed Scholarship

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• History Scholarship

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• History/Political Science Fellowship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• Ingebord Crede Memorial Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Jeremy Byrnes Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Julia Floyd Smith Scholarship in History for Women

  $1,650

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Maxann Foy Scholarship in History

  $600

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

• Terry C. Johnston Memorial Scholarship

  $525

  Deadline 

  February 1, 2027 · 172 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Shauna May Memorial Scholarship

  $2,886

  Deadline 

  February 3, 2027 · 174 days left

• Texas History Essay Contest

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 3, 2027 · 174 days left

  Essay 

  Required

• Dr. Aura-Lee A. and James Hobbs Pittenger American History Scholarship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  February 10, 2027 · 181 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• Enid Hall Griswold Memorial Scholarship

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  February 10, 2027 · 181 days left

• Mahar Memorial History Award

  $180

  Deadline 

  February 13, 2027 · 184 days left

• William E. Adams Memorial Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 14, 2027 · 185 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Alumni Association Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• David M. and Jean Buchanan Vess Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• David M. Vess Study Abroad Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Evelyn Adams Meadows Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• George O. Coalson Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.5

• George V. Irons Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Harriette Craig Bludworth Owens Scholarship

  $200

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• History Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• J. Wayne Flynt Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Littleton-Griswold Research Grant

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Mary Washington Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Michael Kraus Research Grant in History

  $775

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Mildred Chiuminatto Fund Scholarship

  $150

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Nancy C. Lipham Scholarships

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Patricia Collins Amaral Memorial Fund

  $600

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Romanian Scholarship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Sister Virginia Unsworth Distinguished Scholarship in Social Science

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Societe de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship

  $15,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Storer Scholarship in English or History

  $12,000

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.5

• Travel Grant

  $500

  Deadline 

  February 15, 2027 · 186 days left

• Ann Wood Stopper Scholarship in Memory of Robert Wood

  Varies

  Deadline 

  February 21, 2027 · 192 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Hazel Butler Garms U.S. History Scholarship

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  February 21, 2027 · 192 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Martin J. Svaglic Award

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  February 25, 2027 · 196 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• AFSCME/UNCF Union Scholars Program

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  February 28, 2027 · 199 days left

• Allison Preston Goodheart Scholarship

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• Barra Foundation International Fellowship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Charles Julian Bethea Annual Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Dr. James Anders Memorial Scholarship

  $900

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.5

• Early American Economy and Society Advanced Research Fellowship

  $40,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Early American Economy and Society Dissertation-Level Fellowship

  $17,500

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Early American Economy and Society Fellowship

  $1,800

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Fellowship in Early American History and Culture

  $1,800

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• G. Robert Hamrdla Award

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Greenfield Dissertation Fellowship

  $1,750

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• History Scholarship

  $4,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Jack and Calvin Gower Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• James Farmer Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• John B. Wolf Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• John Francis Salvucci Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• L.H. Maier Memorial Scholarship

  $700

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• MacKendrick History Award

  $200

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Mary Caroline and Robert Oliver Carmichael Memorial Fund Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• Opal R. and Opal A. Lovett Scholarship

  $1,320

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• Oscar H. Darter Scholarship in History

  Varies

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Pat Barnhard Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

• Robert S. and Kathryn N. Small Presidential Scholarship for Liberal Arts

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.5

• University Historian Club Scholarship

  $400

  Deadline 

  March 1, 2027 · 200 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Richard C. Maguire Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  March 2, 2027 · 201 days left

• Barbara H. Ferrin Endowed Scholarship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  March 15, 2027 · 214 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.5

• Leo I. Shapiro Memorial Scholarship

  $750

  Deadline 

  March 15, 2027 · 214 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Proctor Fellowship

  $7,500

  Deadline 

  March 15, 2027 · 214 days left

• Charles J. Dunn and William Dunn Scholarship

  $200

  Deadline 

  March 31, 2027 · 230 days left

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Marie-France Jones Memorial Scholarship

  $1,150

  Deadline 

  March 31, 2027 · 230 days left

• Max McElhaney Memorial Educational Scholarship

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  March 31, 2027 · 230 days left

• William G. Saletic Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  March 31, 2027 · 230 days left

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• ARS Graduate Scholarship

  $4,000

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Bachelor's Degree Scholarship in Social Sciences

  $500

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Fellowship in Aerospace History (NASA)

  $20,000

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Liberal Arts and General Studies Degrees - Undergraduate Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Robert Trennert and Peter Iverson Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Sarah Jackson Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Walter Rundell Award

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  April 1, 2027 · 231 days left

• Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) National Society

  Varies

  Deadline 

  April 15, 2027 · 245 days left

• David Thelen Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• Educator Award

  Varies

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• Louis Greenbaum History Writing Contest

  $250

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

  Essay 

  Required

• Ministerial Grant

  Varies

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• Ottis Lock Endowment Research Grant

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• Ragsdale-Johnson Scholarship

  $3,000

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• Willi Paul Adams Award

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  May 1, 2027 · 261 days left

• History Bowl Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  May 30, 2027 · 290 days left

• Baron Avro Manhattan Trust Fund

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  June 1, 2027 · 292 days left

• Robert G. Athearn Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  June 1, 2027 · 292 days left

• Judge William M. Beard Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  June 15, 2027 · 306 days left

  Essay 

  Required

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Ruth S. Widener - Honoring the Late Mrs. Ralph Widener Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  June 15, 2027 · 306 days left

  Essay 

  Required

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award

  $300

  Deadline 

  June 30, 2027 · 321 days left

• Scholarship for Academic Excellence

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  June 30, 2027 · 321 days left

• Harriet Irsay Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  July 1, 2027 · 322 days left

• Caughey Western History Association Prize

  $2,500

  Deadline 

  July 15, 2027 · 336 days left

• Christopher W. Keyser Undergraduate Scholarship

  $1,500

  Deadline 

  July 31, 2027 · 352 days left

  Essay 

  Required

• Alice E. Smith Fellowship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Amy Louise Hunter Fellowship

  $2,000

  Deadline 

  Varies

• Bernard Aratowsky Memorial Scholarship

  $450

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Essay 

  Required

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• Binkley-Stephenson Award

  $500

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Case Freshman Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Catherine W. Pierce Scholarship

  $5,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Min GPA 

  2.5

• David E. Huyler Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Min GPA 

  3.3

• Frank T. Inouye Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Glenn and Dorothy Dumke Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Graduate Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Harrison Lane Memorial Scholarship

  $150

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• John V. Friel History Scholarship

  $250

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Julia Cronin Matthews Endowed Scholarship

  Varies

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Essay 

  Required

• Norman Williamson Jr. Memorial Scholarship

  $500

  Deadline 

  Rolling

  Min GPA 

  3.0

• Peter F. Eisenhardt and Susan Fish History Scholarship

  $1,000

  Deadline 

  Rolling

• Wohlever Award in Computer Science

  Varies

  Deadline 

  Rolling