James A. Rawley Prize
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The James A. Rawley Prize is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians
(OAH). The award goes to the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of Professor James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The President of the OAH appoints three members annually to form the committee that makes the award. The winning author receives $1000.00. In 1992, 2002, and 2003 the committee chose two winners.
In the table below, the link on the author is the most recent biographical information available. The link to the “Affiliation”—usually an academic institution appointment—is that affiliation at the time the award was given. In both instances, priority is given to a “Wikipedia” entry.
Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians , formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S...
(OAH). The award goes to the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of Professor James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The President of the OAH appoints three members annually to form the committee that makes the award. The winning author receives $1000.00. In 1992, 2002, and 2003 the committee chose two winners.
In the table below, the link on the author is the most recent biographical information available. The link to the “Affiliation”—usually an academic institution appointment—is that affiliation at the time the award was given. In both instances, priority is given to a “Wikipedia” entry.
Awards
| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title |
| 1990 | Kenneth L. Karst | UCLA School of Law UCLA School of Law The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1950. It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1952.- History :... |
Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution |
| 1991 | Douglas Monroy | Colorado College Colorado College The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell... |
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California |
| 1992 co-winner | Richard White Richard White (historian) Richard White is an American historian, a past President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author of influential books on the American West, Native American history, and environmental history... |
Stanford University Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 |
| 1992 co-winner | Ramón A. Gutiérrez Ramón A. Gutiérrez -Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a Ph.D.He taught at the University of California, San Diego.He teaches at the University of Chicago.-Awards:* 1992 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the American Historical Association... |
University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States... |
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 |
| 1993 | Edward L. Ayers Edward L. Ayers Edward Lynn Ayers is an American historian. He is the current president of the University of Richmond, having served in this capacity since July 1, 2007. Prior to his appointment, he had been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1980, most recently as the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the... |
University of Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... |
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction |
| 1994 | Michael K. Honey | University of Washington, Tacoma University of Washington, Tacoma The University of Washington Tacoma is a four-year undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate campus in downtown Tacoma, Washington. Students can choose majors in business, education, nursing, computer science, information technology, criminal justice, social work, environmental science, urban... |
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers |
| 1995 | Nancy MacLean | Northwestern University Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.... |
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan |
| 1996 | Peter W. Bardaglio | Goucher College Goucher College Goucher College is a private, co-educational, liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus. The school has approximately 1,475 undergraduate students studying in 31 majors and six interdisciplinary... |
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South |
| 1997 | Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore | Yale University Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 |
| 1998 | Daryl Michael Scott | Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... |
Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996 |
| 1999 | Brian Ward | University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University is a major research-intensive university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It was established as a School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834 and became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne by an Act of Parliament in August 1963. Newcastle University is... |
Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations |
| 2000 | Timothy B. Tyson | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power |
| 2001 | Sherry L. Smith | Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church... |
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes 1880-1940 |
| 2002 co-winner | J. William Harris | University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is... |
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation |
| 2002 co-winner | David W. Blight David W. Blight David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University. Blight was the Class of 1959 Professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years.-Life:... |
Amherst College Amherst College Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009... |
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2003 co-winnter | Sharla M. Fett | Occidental College Occidental College Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast... |
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations |
| 2003 co-winner | Shane White | University of Sydney University of Sydney The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania... |
Stories of Freedom in Black New York |
| 2004 | Barbara Ransby | University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop... |
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision |
| 2005 | Robert O. Self | Brown University Brown University Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,... |
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland |
| 2006 | James Edward Smethurst | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 2007 | Paul A. Kramer | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines |
| 2008 | Susan Eva O'Donovan | Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
Becoming Free in the Cotton South |
| 2009 | Vincent Brown Vincent Brown (historian) Vincent Brown is a Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.-Life:He graduated from University of California San Diego, and Duke University with a Ph.D... |
Harvard University Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery |
| 2010 | Julie Greene | University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C... |
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal |