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Fostering on the Farm
• Vincent De Santis First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), 2017
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This Is Not Dixie
• Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award, Prairie Heritage, Inc., 2017
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
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Kay Boyle
• Honorable Mention, Morton N. Cohen Award, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2017
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Grounds of Engagement
• First Book Award, African Literature Association, 2017
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Nursing Civil Rights
• Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research Writing, American Association for the History of Nursing, 2017
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The Real Cyber War
• International Communication Book Award, International Studies Association, 2017
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Afro-Paradise
• Honorable mention, Errol Hill Award, American Society for Theatre Research, 2017
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Blue Rhythm Fantasy
• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2017
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Waiting for Buddy Guy
• 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
• ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award in the Pop category, ASCAP Foundation, 2017
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Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism
• William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2017
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A Latin American Music Reader
Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2017
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Cold War Games
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
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Baring Witness
• Honorable Mention in Creative Non-Fiction, Association for Mormon Letters, 2017
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
• 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
• 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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Taste of the Nation
• ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2017
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A Cole Porter Companion
• Certificate of Merit for Best Discography, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2017
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Foggy Mountain Troubadour
• 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
• Named Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), 2016
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Slavery at Sea
• Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association (AHA), 2017
•Dred Scott Freedom Award in the category Historical Literary Excellence, Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, 2020
•Dred Scott Freedom Award in the category Historical Literary Excellence, Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, 2020
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Baking Powder Wars
• Included in "The Ten Best Books about Food of 2017," Smithsonian.com
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Colored No More
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
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J. G. Ballard
• Locus Recommended Reading List, 2017