Browse Award Winners



Dear John, Dear Coltrane

• 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

Author: Michael S. Harper

Images of Kin

• 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

Author: Michael S. Harper

Songlines in Michaeltree

• 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

Author: Michael S. Harper

Use Trouble

• 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

Author: Michael S. Harper

Chicanas of 18th Street

• Society of Professors of Education Book Award, 2013
• Honorable Mention, Best History/Political Book-English category, Latino Literacy Nows International Latino Book Awards, 2012

Author: Leonard G. Ramírez with Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital

Chasing Newsroom Diversity

• Frank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2013

Author: Gwyneth Mellinger

Charles Ives in the Mirror

• A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013

Author: David C. Paul

Twentieth Century Drifter

• Belmont Country Music Book of the Year Award, 2013

Author: Diane Diekman

The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

• 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

Author: Jared Gardner

Illinois in the War of 1812

• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013
• Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2012

Author: Gillum Ferguson

How Did Poetry Survive?

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Author: John Timberman Newcomb

SynergiCity

• Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, 2013
• A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013

Author: Edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong

Chicago in the Age of Capital

• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013

Author: John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov

Making Sense of American Liberalism

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Author: Edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley

Ghost of the Ozarks

• J. G. Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History, Arkansas History Association, 2013

Author: Brooks Blevins

Rebels and Runaways

• Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award, Florida Historical Society, 2013
• Bronze Medal, Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category, 2013

Author: Larry Eugene Rivers

Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case

• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013

Author: Jason Emerson

Denise Levertov

• Honorable Mention in Biography, Georgia Author of the Year Awards, 2013

Author: Dana Greene

Indigenous Women and Work

• A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013

Author: Edited by Carol Williams

Bluegrass Bluesman

• 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

Author: Josh Graves

Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Author: Yvonne Daniel

"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Author: Simone de Beauvoir

Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

• Best Book Award for 2011-2012, United Association for Labor Education (UALE), 2013

Author: Immanuel Ness

Man of Fire

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

Author: Ernesto GalarzaEdited by Armando Ibarra and Rodolfo D. Torres