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Red River Blues
• Winner, ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 1987
• Winner, Classic of Blues Literature, The Blues Foundation, 2022
• Winner, Classic of Blues Literature, The Blues Foundation, 2022
Bill Monroe
• Winner, Distinguished Achievement Award, IBMA Industry Awards, 2023
The Heart of a Woman
• Honorable Mention, Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music, 2022
• Book Prize Winner, Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2022
• Book Prize Winner, Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2022
Julia de Burgos
• Silver Award, Best Latina Themed Book category, and Honorable Mention, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural and Community Themed Book, 25th International Latino Book Awards, 2023
Chen Yi
>• Leila Webster Memorial Music Award, Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music, International Alliance for Women in Music, 2022
Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving
• A 2020 Seminary Co-op Notable Book
• Winner, The AFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2021
• Winner, Terry McAdam Book Award, Alliance for Nonprofit Management, 2021
• Winner, Dan David Prize, endowed by the Dan David Foundation, 2022
• Winner, Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, 2023
• Winner, The AFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals, 2021
• Winner, Terry McAdam Book Award, Alliance for Nonprofit Management, 2021
• Winner, Dan David Prize, endowed by the Dan David Foundation, 2022
• Winner, Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, 2023
From Slave Cabins to the White House
A Ms. Magazine Best Book of 2020
A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021
• Honoree, Progressive Womens Voices IMPACT Award, Womens Media Center, Womens Media Awards, 2023
A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2021
• Honoree, Progressive Womens Voices IMPACT Award, Womens Media Center, Womens Media Awards, 2023
Making the MexiRican City
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2023
A House for the Struggle
• Winner, Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, 2022
• Winner, ULCCs Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago 2023 Award, Union League Club of Chicago, 2023
• Honorable Mention, 2021-22 RSAP Book Prize, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2023
• Winner, Superior Achievement, Best of Illinois History, Illinois State Historical Society Awards, 2023
• Winner, Michael Nelson Prize of IAMHIST, International Association for Media and History, 2023
• Winner, Book of the Year, American Journalism Historians Association, 2023
• Winner, BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies, 2023
• Winner of the 2023 The Brinck Book Award and Lecture series, created in honor of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning, 2023
• Winner, ULCCs Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago 2023 Award, Union League Club of Chicago, 2023
• Honorable Mention, 2021-22 RSAP Book Prize, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2023
• Winner, Superior Achievement, Best of Illinois History, Illinois State Historical Society Awards, 2023
• Winner, Michael Nelson Prize of IAMHIST, International Association for Media and History, 2023
• Winner, Book of the Year, American Journalism Historians Association, 2023
• Winner, BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies, 2023
• Winner of the 2023 The Brinck Book Award and Lecture series, created in honor of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning, 2023
Puerto Rican Chicago
• Winner, Critics Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2023
Food Instagram
• Winner, Edited Volume Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2023
Mormon Women at the Crossroads
• Winner, Best International Book Award, Mormon History Association, 2023
Graceland Cemetery
• Chosen, 2024 Illinois Reads Program, Illinois Reading Council
Riding Jane Crow
• Honorable Mention, Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Womens and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians, 2023
• Honorable Mention, Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians, 2023
• Honorable Mention, Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians, 2023
Fear of a Black Republic
• Honorary Mention, Haiti Book Prize, Haitian Studies Association, 2023
• Winner, Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), 2023
• Winner, Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), 2023
A Word in Season
• Association for Mormon Letters Award in religious nonficition
T.O.B.A. Time
• Theatre Library Association: George Freedley Memorial Award
Shadow of the New Deal
• Theatre Library Association: Richard Wall Memorial Award
