The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961[1] at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington, et al.
[3] In 2020, the WHA relocated to the Department of History at the University of Kansas, where it receives support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
[4] In 1964 WHA began publication at the University of Utah Press, with a full run of four issues, and then in 1965 contracted Sunset publishing to print the quarterly called Nebraska, edited by A. R.
Awarded since 2003, past recipients include Ned Blackhawk, Amy S. Greenberg and Ari Kelman.
In addition, it provides a field notes section about Western history in applied situations, as well as book reviews, and notices of recent publications about the American West.