Recent Awards
2018
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Six Minutes in Berlin
Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
Michael J. Socolow
• Broadcast Historian Award, Library of American Broadcasting Foundation (LABF) and the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), 2018
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Newspaper Wars
Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965
Sid Bedingfield
• George C. Rogers Jr. Award, South Carolina Historical Society, 2018
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Making an Antislavery Nation
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Graham A. Peck
• Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2018
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Iain M. Banks
Paul Kincaid
• BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction, British Science Fiction Association, 2018
• Finalist, Hugo Award for Best Related Work, 2018
• Locus Recommended Reading List, 2017
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2017
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Waiting for Buddy Guy
Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
Alan Harper
• Best Blues Book of 2016, Readers Poll in Living Blues magazine, 2017
• ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award in the Pop category, ASCAP Foundation, 2017
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This Is Not Dixie
Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927
Brent M. S. Campney
• Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award, Prairie Heritage, Inc., 2017
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
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Taste of the Nation
The New Deal Search for America's Food
Camille Bégin
• ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2017
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Slavery at Sea
Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Sowande' M. Mustakeem
• Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association (AHA), 2017
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
LaShawn Harris
• Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2017
• Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor and Working-Class History, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2017
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The Real Cyber War
The Political Economy of Internet Freedom
Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski
• International Communication Book Award, International Studies Association, 2017
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Nursing Civil Rights
Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
Charissa J. Threat
• Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing, 2017
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Kay Boyle
A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters
Kay Boyle
• Honorable Mention, Morton N. Cohen Award, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2017
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J. G. Ballard
D. Harlan Wilson
• Locus Recommended Reading List, 2017
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Grounds of Engagement
Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing
Stéphane Robolin
• First Book Award, African Literature Association, 2017
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Fostering on the Farm
Child Placement in the Rural Midwest
Megan Birk
• Vincent De Santis First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), 2017
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Foggy Mountain Troubadour
The Life and Music of Curly Seckler
Penny Parsons
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards (ARSC), 2017
• Named Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), 2016
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Cold War Games
Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Toby C. Rider
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
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A Cole Porter Companion
Edited by Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, and Susan Forscher Weiss
• Certificate of Merit for Best Discography, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2017
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Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Treva B. Lindsey
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
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Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction
The New Memory of Latinidad
Ylce Irizarry
• MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association, 2017
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Blue Rhythm Fantasy
Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era
John Wriggle
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2017
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Baring Witness
36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
Edited by Holly Welker
• Honorable Mention in Creative Non-Fiction, Association for Mormon Letters, 2017
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Baking Powder Wars
The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Linda Civitello
• Included in "The Ten Best Books about Food of 2017," Smithsonian.com
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Afro-Paradise
Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Christen A. Smith
• Honorable mention, Errol Hill Award, American Society for Theatre Research, 2017
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2016
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When Sex Threatened the State
Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958
Saheed Aderinto
• NSA Book Award, Nigerian Studies Association, 2016
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Watching Women's Liberation, 1970
Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News
Bonnie J. Dow
• Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award, Feminist and Women Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
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This Book Is an Action
Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics
Edited by Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
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Stunning Males and Powerful Females
Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance
Christina Sunardi
• Co-winner, Philip Brett Award, LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS), 2016
• Honorable mention, Alan Merriam Prize, 2016
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Splattered Ink
Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence
Sarah E. Whitney
• Co-winner, Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016
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St. Louis Rising
The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive
Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K. Person
• Missouri History Book Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
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Smokestacks in the Hills
Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia
Lou Martin
• Honorable mention, David Montgomery Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2016
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Scripts of Blackness
Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Isar P. Godreau
• Co-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016
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Sexting Panic
Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent
Amy Adele Hasinoff
• Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
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Sex Testing
Gender Policing in Women's Sports
Lindsay Parks Pieper
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
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Sensing Chicago
Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers
Adam Mack
• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society, 2016
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The Music of the Stanley Brothers
Gary B. Reid
• Best Discography, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2016
• Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), 2015
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
A Biography
Michael Hicks
• Finalist, Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, Utah Center for the Book, 2016
• Honorable Mention, Best Biography, Mormon History Association, 2016
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The Man That Got Away
The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen
Walter Rimler
Timothy White Award for Musical Biography, ASCAP Foundation and Virgil Thomson Foundation, 2016
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Manhood on the Line
Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
Stephen Meyer
• Book of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016
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Making Photography Matter
A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression
Cara A. Finnegan
• James A. Winans and Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
• Outstanding Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015
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Funk the Erotic
Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
L. H. Stallings
• Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016
• Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016
• Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016
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Daisy Turner's Kin
An African American Family Saga
Jane C. Beck
• Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
• Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
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Beyond Partition
Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India
Deepti Misri
• Eugene M. Kayden Book Award in Literary Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
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The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Field Recordings and the American Experience
Stephen Wade
• Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016
• ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2013
• Award for Excellence for Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2013
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2015
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Winning the War for Democracy
The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946
David Lucander
• Missouri History Book Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 2015
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Strange Natures
Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
Nicole Seymour
• ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 2015
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Studying Appalachian Studies
Making the Path by Walking
Edited by Chad Berry, Phillip J. Obermiller, and Shaunna L. Scott
• Weatherford Award (Nonfiction), Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association, 2015
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Signal Traffic
Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures
Edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski
• Best Edited Collection Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), 2015-2016
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Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!
Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality
Stephen Amico
• Marcia Herndon Prize, Gender and Sexualities Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), 2015
• Special Mention, IASPM Book Prize, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2015
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Ethelene Whitmire
• Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation, Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), 2015
• Wheatley Book Award for First Nonfiction, Harlem Book Fair and QBR: The Black Book Review, 2015
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Qualifying Times
Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport
Jaime Schultz
• Honorable Mention in U.S. History, PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, 2015
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Pretty Good for a Girl
Women in Bluegrass
Murphy Hicks Henry
• Distinguished Achievement Award, International Bluegrass Musical Association (IBMA), 2015
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Muddying the Waters
Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism
Richa Nagar
• Honorable Mention, Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2015
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Kirtland Temple
The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
David J. Howlett
• Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association, 2015
• Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association, 2015
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
On Classic Film Noir
Edited by Robert Miklitsch
• Nominee for Edgar® Award, Best Critical/Biographical category, 2015
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
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Hillary Clinton in the News
Gender and Authenticity in American Politics
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
• Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015
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Hawaiian Music in Motion
Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels
James Revell Carr
• Co-winner of the Allan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2015
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Ghost Stories for Darwin
The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
Banu Subramaniam
• Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
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Global Homophobia
States, Movements, and the Politics of Oppression
Edited by Meredith L. Weiss and Michael J. Bosia
• Scholar Award, LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, 2015
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Feminist Writings
Simone de Beauvoir Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
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Dirty Words
The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924
Robin E. Jensen
• Distinguished Book Award, Health Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015
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The Creolization of American Culture
William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy
Christopher J. Smith
• Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2015
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Blues All Day Long
The Jimmy Rogers Story
Wayne Everett Goins
• Best Blues Book of the Year, Readers' Poll, Living Blues magazine, 2015
• Certificate of Merit, Awards for Excellence, Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, or R&B, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2015
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Baseball on Trial
The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Nathaniel Grow
• Larry Ritter Book Award, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 2015
• Finalist, Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 2015
• David J. Langum Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust, 2014
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Autism and Gender
From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks
Jordynn Jack
• RSA Book Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2015
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2014
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Workers in Hard Times
A Long View of Economic Crises
Edited by Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin, and Joan Sangster
• ILHA Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association, 2014
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Triple Entendre
Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus
Hervé Vanel
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014
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Transformation Now!
Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
AnaLouise Keating
• Honorable Mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2014
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Squeeze This!
A Cultural History of the Accordion in America
Marion Jacobson
• Klaus Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2014
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The Sons of Westwood
John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball
John Matthew Smith
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Southern Soul-Blues
David Whiteis
• Best History for Best Research in Recorded Blues, Hip-Hop, Rhythm & Blues, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014
• Blues Book of the Year, Critics' Poll, Living Blues magazine, 2014
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Rooting for the Home Team
Sport, Community, and Identity
Edited by Daniel A. Nathan
• Co-winner, North American Society for Sport History Book Award Anthology, 2014
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Ring Shout, Wheel About
The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery
Katrina Dyonne Thompson
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Queer Migration Politics
Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities
Karma R. Chávez
• Book of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2014
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Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed
Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
• Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, 2014
• Silver Winner in Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Nautilus Book Awards, 2014
• Runner-up in General Nonfiction, Green Book Festival, 2014
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Loyalty and Liberty
American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Alex Goodall
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Intelligently Designed
How Creationists Built the Campaign against Evolution
Edward Caudill
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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The Great Orchestrator
Arthur Judson and American Arts Management
James M. Doering
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Classical Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014
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Fannie Barrier Williams
Crossing the Borders of Region and Race
Wanda A. Hendricks
• Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians, 2014
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Eating Together
Food, Friendship, and Inequality
Alice P. Julier
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Echoes of Chongqing
Women in Wartime China
Danke Li
• Hong Kong Book Prize (for Chinese translation), 2014
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The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions
Volume 1: A-L; Volume 2: M-Z
Patrick Taylor and Frederick I. Case, Editors
• Honorable Mention, Dartmouth Medal, American Library Associations Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2014
• Outstanding References Sources list, RUSA, 2014
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Chicago River Bridges
Patrick T. McBriarty
• Eugene S. Ferguson Prize, Society for the History of Technology, 2015
• Honorable Mention as a Finalist for the Traditional Nonfiction Category, Chicago Writers Association, 2014
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Beyond the White Negro
Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading
Kimberly Chabot Davis
• Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association, 2014
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Asian Americans in Dixie
Race and Migration in the South
Edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Appalachian Dance
Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities
Susan Eike Spalding
• Weatherford Award (Nonfiction), Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association, 2014
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Anna Howard Shaw
The Work of Woman Suffrage
Trisha Franzen
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
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Alec Wilder
Philip Lambert
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Classical Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014
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2013
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Use Trouble
Michael S. Harper
• Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013
• Author is a recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008
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SynergiCity
Reinventing the Postindustrial City
Edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong
• Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, 2013
• A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013
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Songlines in Michaeltree
New and Collected Poems
Michael S. Harper
• Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013
• Author is a recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008
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The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture
Jared Gardner
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
• EBSCOhost-Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Book Prize, 2013
• Notable Title, Annual Book Award, Society for US Intellectual History, 2013
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Rebels and Runaways
Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Larry Eugene Rivers
• Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award, Florida Historical Society, 2013
• Bronze Medal, Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category, 2013
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Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case
A Documentary History
Jason Emerson
• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013
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Man of Fire
Selected Writings
Ernesto Galarza Edited by Armando Ibarra and Rodolfo D. Torres
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
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Illinois in the War of 1812
Gillum Ferguson
• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013
• Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2012
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Images of Kin
New and Selected Poems
Michael S. Harper
• Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013
• Author is a recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008
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How Did Poetry Survive?
The Making of Modern American Verse
John Timberman Newcomb
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013
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Ghost of the Ozarks
Murder and Memory in the Upland South
Brooks Blevins
• J. G. Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History, Arkansas History Association, 2013
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Denise Levertov
A Poet's Life
Dana Greene
• Honorable Mention in Biography, Georgia Author of the Year Awards, 2013
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Poems
Michael S. Harper
• Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013
• Author is recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008
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Chasing Newsroom Diversity
From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action
Gwyneth Mellinger
• Frank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2013
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Chicago in the Age of Capital
Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction
John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov
• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013
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Chicanas of 18th Street
Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago
Leonard G. Ramírez with Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital
• Society of Professors of Education Book Award, 2013
• Honorable Mention, Best History/Political Book-English category, Latino Literacy Now's International Latino Book Awards, 2012
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Bluegrass Bluesman
A Memoir
Josh Graves
• Certificate of Merit for Excellence for Best Research in Recorded Country Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards, 2013
• Fred Bartenstein (editor), Bluegrass/Media Person of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Awards (IBMA), 2013
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