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Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2007)
The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
Received the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, under the heading of “Best Discography.”
Longfellow Redux
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2007)
Private Prisons in America
Author is recipient of the Gandhi, King, Ikeda (GKI) Award (2006) given by the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College. Author received an Honorable Mention Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights (2007)
Good Hearts
Received the 2007 Certificate of Excellence Award from the Illinois State Historical Society.
Zane Grey
Voted Best Biography in the 2007 inaugural Classic Angling magazine’s Book Awards.
"Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music
Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (2007).
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Received the Superior Achievement Award by the Illinois State Historical Society (2007).
Coalfield Jews
Awarded the Southern Jewish Historical Society Award “for the book making the most significant contribution to the field of Southern Jewish history published during 2003-2006.” (2007)
Robber Baron
Named Book of the Year by the Illinois State Historical Society (2007).
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
Awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize (2007).
Rooms of Our Own
Received an Honorable Mention Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights (2007)
Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award (2007).
The Chicago Marathon
Received the Hal Higdon Journalism Award, recognizing serious journalism about running from the Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA, 2007).
Lincoln the Lawyer
Awarded the Barondess/Lincoln Award of The Civil War Round Table of New York (2007).
Homegrown Music
Winner of the 2007 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism in the Career category.
