Category Archives: awards

March 27, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Book Award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’s recent book Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has received the Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category for 2012. Published in July 2012, Rebels and Runaways analyzes the various degrees of slave … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture wins award

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Jared Gardner’s recent University of Illinois Press book, The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture has been chosen for the EBSCOhost-RSAP (Research Society for American Periodicals) Book Prize for the best book published over the past two years … Continue reading →

February 9, 2013

Grammy for Stephen Wade?

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Best wishes to Stephen Wade, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, whose Smithsonian Folkways CD Banjo Diary is up for a Grammy Award this year. From the Smithsonian Folkways site: Innovative and often … Continue reading →

January 17, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Historical Society award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’ recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders’ wills … Continue reading →

October 17, 2012

Congratulations Koritha Mitchell

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Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, is the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2012 Book Award Winner. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that … Continue reading →

August 13, 2012

Radio Utopia wins Tankard Book Award

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The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has awarded Matthew C. Ehrlich’s Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest the annual Tankard Book Award, which honors well-written and groundbreaking first-edition scholarly monographs relevant to journalism and … Continue reading →

August 1, 2012

The American Theatre and Drama Society awards Living with Lynching

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The American Theatre and Drama Society has awarded its 2011/2012 Annual Book Award to Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. This award recognizes outstanding works that expand and challenge the field of American theatre and … Continue reading →

May 11, 2012

Working Class Studies Association award for Archie Green

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The Working Class Studies Association has awarded Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero a 2012 CLR James Award for Best Book. Archie Green celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century and captures the many dimensions of … Continue reading →

May 8, 2012

More ISHS award winners

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In addition to the award for Gillum Ferguson’s new book Illinois in the War of 1812, the Illinois State Historical Society recognized two University of Illinois Press books at the Society’s Illinois History Symposium and Awards Banquet, on April 27, 2012. … Continue reading →

May 2, 2012

Illinois in the War of 1812 wins Russell P. Strange Award

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Gillum Ferguson’s book, Illinois in the War of 1812 (University of Illinois Press), is the 2012 recipient of the Illinois State Historical Society’s Russell P. Strange “Book of the Year” award.  The award is presented annually to an author whose scholarship … Continue reading →