The Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation (new in 2019) is an annual $750 award to an historian who has developed a college or university course that engages students in exploring the links between contemporary issues (ÔÇ£hot topicsÔÇØ) and/or contemporary events and the past. Courses submitted for consideration must be historical in nature, although they do not need to be within a History department if they are offered within a related department or field. Applicants to the Renner Award must be current members of the WAWH when they submit their application. Current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply.