Gutman Prize



link to catalog page, Upon the Altar of Work

Upon the Altar of Work

Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism

Author: Betsy Wood
Pub Date: September 2020

The North-South divide over child labor, 1850–1939   learn more...

link to catalog page, To Live Here, You Have to Fight

To Live Here, You Have to Fight

How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

Author: Jessica Wilkerson
Pub Date: January 2019

Working poor women, feminist activism, and the birth of a new era of grassroots empowerment   learn more...

link to catalog page, Teacher Strike!

Teacher Strike!

Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order

Author: Jon Shelton
Pub Date: April 2017

The epic story of a time of peak conflict in urban education   learn more...

link to catalog page, Disaster Citizenship

Disaster Citizenship

Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era

Author: Jacob A. C. Remes
Pub Date: January 2016

The clash of reformers and survivors in the aftermath of catastrophe   learn more...

link to catalog page, Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920 Author: Michael K. Rosenow
Pub Date: June 2015

The inequalities surrounding the great equalizer   learn more...

link to catalog page, Child Care in Black and White

Child Care in Black and White

Working Parents and the History of Orphanages

Author: Jessie B. Ramey
Pub Date: Cloth: 2012; Paper: July 2013

Reconceptualizing the orphanage as day care   learn more...

link to catalog page, Spirit of Rebellion

Spirit of Rebellion

Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South

Author: Jarod Roll
Pub Date: 2010

Crossing the color line with revivalism among working-class Southerners   learn more...