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Books published by AAUP member presses regularly win awards from scholarly societies, regional institutions, and national literary organizations. What follows is a partial list of prizes received by our members, broken down by press.

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H

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Doubting Thomas
Glenn Most
Book Award, 2nd Place, Catholic Press Association, 2006

Irresistible Empire
Victoria de Grazia
Myrna F. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2006

Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
James C. McCann
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History, 2006

A New Deal for the New World: America’s Vision for Human Rights
Elizabeth Borgwardt
Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians, 2006
Stuart Bernath Book Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2006
Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society), 2006

The People’s Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarch, 1945-1995
Kenneth J. Ruoff
Jiro Osaragi Prize for Commentary, 2006

Pull
Pam Laird
Hagley Prize, Best book in Business History, Business History Conference, 2006
Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference, 2006

Stalin
Robert Service
Independent Publisher Book Awards, Biography Category, 2006

Racing the Enemy 
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2006
Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, 2005

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
John Fabian Witt
J. Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association, 2005

Being a Buddhist Nun
Kim Gutschow
Sharon Stephens First Book Award, American Ethnological Society, 2005

Black is a Country
Nikhil Singh
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians, 2005
Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, 2005

Brain Arousal and Information Theory 
Donald Pfaff
Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, PSP, 2005

Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives
Mary Blair-Loy
William J. Goode Book Award, ASA Section on the Family, 2005

Dictatorship and Demand
Mark Landsman
Herbert Feis Award, AHA, 2005

Governing Nonprofit Organizations
Marion Fremont-Smith
Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research prize, ARNOVA, 2005

Historical Atlas of Islam
Malise Ruthven and Azim Nanji
Best Reference Book about the Middle East Award, Middle East Outreach Council, 2005

The History of Foreign Investment in the United States
Mira Wilkins
The Hagley Book Prize, Co-Winner, Best Book in Business History, 2005

Huck’s Raft
Steven Mintz
Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians, 2005
Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005

Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy
Desmond King
Kurt Weill Prize, Kurt Weill Foundation, 2005

A New Theory for American Poetry
Angus Fletcher
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2005

Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Joshua Piker
Malcolm Bell Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society, 2005

Plants and Empire
Londa Schiebinger
Prize in Atlantic History, AHA, 2005
Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2005

Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations
Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, Maria Krysan
Book Award For Outstanding Public Opinion Research, American Association for Public Opinion Research, 2005

The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
Edward Coffman
Distinguished Book Award, The Society for Military History, 2005

Remaking the American Mainstream
Richard Alba and Victor Nee
Mirra Komarovsky Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2005

Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850
Antonia Finnane
Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council, 2005

The Transatlantic Constitution
Mary Sarah Bilder
Littleton-Griswold Prize, AHA, 2005

Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
John Makeham
Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2005

Fathoming the Ocean
Helen Rozwadowski
John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History, 2005

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930
Jordan Sand
Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2005
John K. Fairbank Prize, AHA, 2004
John Whitney Hall Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, 2004

Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality
Seip Stuurman
George L. Mosse Prize, AHA, 2004

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t
Scott Saul
American Book Awards, Before Columbus Foundation, 2004

Generations of Captivity
Ira Berlin
Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award, Nonfiction Category, Cleveland Foundation, 2004

For Love of Insects
Thomas Eisner
Book Award, Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2004

The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives
David Bainbridge
2004 Book Award, American Medical Writers Association, 2004

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager
David Moss
Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc., 2004

Republic of Debtors
Bruce Mann
J. Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association, 2004

Shared Beginings, Divergent Lives
John Laub and Robert Sampson
Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology, 2004
The Albert J. Reiss Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association, 2004

The Post-Revolutionary Self
Jan Goldstein
David Pickney Prize, The Society for French Historical Studies, 2004

The Practice of Diaspora
Brent Edwards
Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington, 2003
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association, 2004

The National Labs
Peter Westwick
Book Prize, History of Science Society's Forum, 2004

Lincoln's Last Months
William C. Harris
Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award, 2004

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
Kate Brown
George Louis Beer Prize, AHA, 2004
Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2004

A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn
Merle Curti Prize, Organization for American Historians, 2004
The Mark Lynton History Prize, Honorable Mention, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, 2004

Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South
Jonathan D. Martin
Bennett H. Wall Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
Herbert Feis Award, AHA, 2004

Emerson
Lawrence Buell
Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa, 2004
Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies, 2003

Modernization from the Other Shore
David C. Engerman
Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2004
Akira Iriye International History Book Award, Co-Winner, The Foundation for Pacific Quest, 2002-2003

German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781-1801
Frederick C. Beiser
Napoleonic Studies Literary Prize, Second Prize, The International Napoleonic Society, 2003

Homosexuality and Civilization
Louis Crompton
Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, 2003

A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
David Schaberg
Joseph Levenson Book Prize, pre-modern, China and inner Asia council, Association for Asian Studies, 2003

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race
John Stauffer
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 2003

Stories of Freedom in Black New York
Shane White
James A. Rawley Award, co-winner, Organization of American Historians, 2003

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Joanne Meyerowitz
Stonewall Award, nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table, American Library Association, 2003

A Desert Calling
Michael Mares
Oklahoma Book Award, nonfiction, Oklahoma Center for the Book, 2003

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS

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UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PRESS

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Linda Lawrence Hunt
PNBA Book Award, The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, 2004

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
Paul E. Bierley
Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2007

The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Anne Meis Knupfer
Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2007

Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
John Franch
Book of the Year Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2007

Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past
Suellen Hoy
Certificate of Excellence Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2007

Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women
Thomas H. Pauly
Best Biography, Classic Angling magazine, 2007

Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
Kenneth Morgan
ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, 2006

Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan
Nancy Guy
ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, 2006

The Tribe of Black Ulysses:  African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
William P. Jones
H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2006

Bob Black
Come Hither to Go Yonder:  Playing Music with Bill Monroe
Personality of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Association Print Media, 2006

Going Indian
James Hamill
James Mooney Award, Co-winner, Southern Anthropological Society, 2007

Andrew Suozzo
The Chicago Marathon
Hal Higdon Journalism Award, Chicago Area Runners Association, 2007

Saying It’s So:  A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
Daniel A. Nathan
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006
 
Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan
Nancy Guy
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006
 
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Joyce Moore Turner
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006
 
The Rural Face of White Supremacy:  Beyond Jim Crow
Mark Schultz
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006

Michael Hallett
Ghandhi, King, Ikeda Award, Ghandhi Institute for Reconciliation, 2006
Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective

African Americans in the Furniture City:  The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids
Randal Maurice Jelks
State History Award, University and Commercial Press, Historical Society of Michigan, 2006

Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé
Yvonne Daniel
Torre Bueno Prize, Society of Dance History Scholars, 2006

Never Seen The Moon:  The Trials of Edith Maxwell
Sharon Hatfield
Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Celebration of Appalachian Writing Award, Morehead State University, 2006

Investigated Reporting
Chad Raphael
History Division Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006
Frank Luther Mott--Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2006

Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
Robert Bray
Saddlebag Award, Historical Society of the United Methodist Church, 2005

Custome is an Idiot: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women
Susan Gushee O’Malley
Josephine Roberts Edition Award, Co-winner, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, 2005

Peruvian Street Lives:  Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco
Linda Seligmann
Leeds Honor Book Award , Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA), American Anthropological Association, 2006

The Tribe of Black Ulysses:  African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
Will Jones
Wentworth Illinois History book award, Organization of American Historians, 2006

Never Seen the Moon:  The Trials of Edith Maxwell
Sharon Hatfield
W. C. Weatherford Award, Non-fiction in Appalachian Studies,  Appalachian Studies Association, 2005

Survivors:  Cambodian Refugees in the United States
Sucheng Chan
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, History, AAAS, 2004
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2005

CHOICE Magazine “Outstanding Academic Titles” 2005
Without a Tear:  Our Tragic Relationship with Animals, Mark H. Bernstein
Dewey and Elvis:  The Life and Times of a Rock ‘N’ Roll Deejay, Louis Cantor
Survivors:  Cambodian Refugees in the United States, Sucheng Chan
Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection, Randolph Feezell
French Gay Modernism, Lawrence R. Schehr

Lost Sounds:  Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Tim Brooks
Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music, 2005
Award for Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound,  Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2005
 
Robert Johnson:  Mythmaking and Contemporary American Culture
Patricia R. Schroeder’s
Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Research in Recorded Blues, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2005

No Lonesome Road:  Selected Prose and Poems
Don West
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2005

High Mountains Rising:  Appalachia in Time and Place
Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen
AWA Appalachian Book of the Year Award, Nonfiction, Appalachian Writers Association, 2005

Radical Origins:  Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors
Val D. Rust
Smith-Petit Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association, 2005

His Brother’s Blood:  Speeches and Writings of Owen Lovejoy, 1838-1864
William and Jane Ann Moore
Award of Superior Achievement, The Illinois State Historical Society, 2005

My Life in San Juan Pueblo: Stories of Esther Martinez
Edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs and Josephine Binford with M. Ellen Carroll, Henrietta M. Smith, and Tilar Mazze
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, Women’s Section of the American Folklore
Society, 2004

Tim Brooks
ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2004
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919

Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States
Najia Aarim-Heriot
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Race Relations: Chinese Americans: African Americans, Honorable Mention, 2004

Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest,
1880-1930
Toby Higbie
Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association, 2004
Taft Labor History Prize, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2004

Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology
Ellen Lewin and Bill Leap, editors
Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 2004

Hollow Log Lounge
R.T. Smith
Maurice English Poetry Award, 2004

Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City
Laurie Mercier
Clark C. Spence Award, Mining History Association, 2004

Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory
Virginia Kerns
William P. Clements Prize, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2003

Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Jeffrey Nichols
Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association, 2003

Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage
Albert Glinsky
ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-1936
Cecelia Bucki
Homer D. Babbidge Prize, Association for the Study of Connectict History, 2002

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Who Will Writer our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto,
and the Oyneg Shabes Library
Samuel D. Kassow
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Holocaust category, 2007

Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture and AIDS
David Roman
Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Song and Story in Biblical Narrative
Steve Weitzman
Gustave O. Arlt Award, Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools

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ISLAND PRESS

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
Char Miller
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society, 2003

Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
Richard E. Byrd
National Outdoor Book Award, classic, National Outdoor Book Award Foundation, 2003

Positive Impact Forestry: A Sustainable Approach to Managing Woodlands
Thom J. McEvoy
Best Forestry Book of 2004, National Woodlands Owners Association

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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS

Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky
Trudy Dittmar
2003 Whiting Writers' Award

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JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY

Inventing Jewish Ritual
Vanessa Ochs
National Jewish Book Award, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice, 2007

Power of Song: And Other Sephardic Tales
Rita Roth (author) and Alexa Ginsberg (illustrator)
National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Family Literature, 2007

Celebrating the Jewish Year
Paul Steinberg
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice, 2007

A Shout in the Sunshine
Mara Cohen Ioannides
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2007

Folktales of the Jews: Volume 1: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion
Dan Ben-Amos, editor
National Jewish Book Award, Sephardic Culture, 2006

Lilith’s Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women
Deborah Bodin
National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Family Literature, 2006

The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons
Jill Hammer
National Jewish Book Award, finalist, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice, 2006

To Do the Right and the Good
Elliot Dorff
National Jewish Book Award, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices, 2002-2003

Chanting the Hebrew Bible
Joshua Jacobson
National Jewish Book Award, finalist, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practices, 2002-2003

The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot
Michael Fishbane
National Jewish Book Award, finalist, Scholarship category, 2002-2003

The JPS Guide to Jewish Women
Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan
National Jewish Book Award, finalist, Women's Studies category, 2002-2003

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
James R. Spotila
PSP Book Award, Biological Science, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004

Late Roman Spain and Its Cities
Michael Kulikowski
PSP Book Award, Classics and Archaeology Honorable Mention, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004

Appalachian Folkways
John B. Rehder
PSP Book Award, Sociology & Anthropology Honorable Mention, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004

The Electric Vehicle
Gijs Mom
Engineer-Historian Award, International History and Heritage Committee,  American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2004

Space Policy in the 21st Century
W. Henry Lambright
The Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society, 2004

When Champagne Became French
Kolleen M. Guy
Best Wine History Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Award, 2003
Clicquot Wine Book of the Year, runner-up, 2003

Marcel Detienne's The Writing of Orpheus
Janet Lloyd, translator
Translation Prize, non-fiction, The French-American Foundation, 2004

The Lords of Misrule
X. J. Kennedy
Poets' Prize, 2004

Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation
Gail Lee Debra and Jennifer P. Goodman, editors
Antoinette Forrester Downing Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2004

Building Gotham
Keith D. Revell
Best Book in North American Urban History, Urban History Association, 2003
Abel Wolman Award, American Public Works Association, 2003

Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility
Elizabeth Armstrong
C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2003

Diagnosing Literary Genius
Irina Serotina
Aldo and Jeanne Scallion Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature, MLA, 2003
Decadent Subjects
Charles Bernheimer, et al
Honorable Mention, Scallion Prize

Suburban Landscapes
Paul Mattingly
Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History, 2003

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity
Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser
Best Book Award, Israel Political Science Association, 2003

The Transformation of Governance
Donald F. Kettl
Book Award, co-winner, Academy of Public Administration, 2003
Louis Brownlow Award, American Public Administration Association, 2003

Legacies of Liberalism
James Mahoney
Best Book Award, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association, 2003

Sensory Worlds  in Early America
Peter Charles Hoffer
PSP Book Award, honorable mention, history, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2003

Great Marsh
David Harp and Tom Horton
Best Coffee Table Book, Baltimore Magazine, 2003

Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories
Gilbert Sandler
Mayor's Award of Literary Excellence, honorable mention, non-fiction, Baltimore Book Festival, 2003

Choice Magazine 2003 Outstanding Academic Titles
Herman Melville volume 2
Hershel Parker
The Double-Edge Helix
Joseph Alper et al.
Venice Triumphant by Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Ecological Planning
Forster Ndubisi
Blue-Collar Hollywood
John Bodnar
Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space
Roger Bilstein

Deep Souths
J. William Harris
Pulitzer Prize in History, runner-up, 2002
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society
James A. Rawley Prize, co-winner, Organization of American Historians

Divine Feminine
Joy Dixon
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, honorable mention, Canadian Historical Association .

All We Knew Was To Farm
Melissa Walker
Willie Lee Rose Publication Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians

Openness, Secrecy, Authorship
Pamela Long
Morris D. Forkosch Prize, The Journal of the History of Ideas

The Manichaean Body
Jason David Beduhn
Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion

No Place Like Home
Karen Buhler Wilkerson
Lavinia L. Dock Award, American Association for the History of Nursing

Higher Ed, Inc
Richard Ruch
Alice L. Beeman Research Award, The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2002

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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS

Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932
Donald A. Ritchie
George Pendleton Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, 2008

Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency
William C. Harris
Henry Adams War Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government, 2008

Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation
Tony A. Freyer
J. G. Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association, 2008

The Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America
Bruce J. Dierenfield
Langum Prize in American Legal History, 2007

Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste
Joni Kinsey
Western Heritage Award, Art Book Division, 2007. Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award, Oklahoma Center for the Book, 2007.

Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
Kenneth Osgood
Herbert Hoover Book Award, 2006.

The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy
C. Wyatt Evans
Bela Kornitzer Book Award, Drew University, 2006.

Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity
Mary E. Stuckey
Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, 2006.

Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism
Louis Fisher
Neustadt Award, 2005.

The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy
David M. Barrett
D. B. Hardeman Prize, 2006 .

Indians in Unexpected Places
Philip J. Deloria
John C. Ewer Book Award, Western History Association, 2006.

Environment, Inc: From Grassroots to Beltway
Christopher J. Bosso
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Co-winner, American Political Science Association, 2006.

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Colleen O’Neill
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, Historical Society of New Mexico, 2006.

After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans
Donald R. Shaffer
Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, 2005.

Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational Warfare
Robert Citino
Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association, 2004
Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History, 2005.

Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas
James R. Shortridge
Globe Award for Public Understanding of Geography, Association of America Geographers

The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy
C. Wyatt Evans
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians, 2005.

The Vietnam War Files: Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon-Era Strategy
Jeffrey Kimball
Link-Kuehl Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Fraternity of Arms: American and France in the Great War
Robert B. Bruce
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, Western Front Association/USA Branch, 2004.

The Slaughterhouse Cases: Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Ronald M. Labb and Jonathan Lurie
Scribes Award, American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects, 2004

American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam
Peter S. Kindsvatter
AHF Distinguished Writing Award, U.S. Army History 1899-2003, American Historical Foundation, 2003

The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778
Stephen R. Taaffe
AHF Distinguished Writing Award, U.S. Army History 1775-1898, American Historical Foundation, 2003

Driving Across Kansas: A Guide to I-70
Ted T. Cable and Wayne A. Maley
Outstanding Interpretive Site Publication, National Association for Interpretation (six-state region), 2003

American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam
Peter S. Kindsvatter
Richard W. Leopold Prize, Organization of American Historians, 2003

The Pueblo Incident
Mitchell B. Lerner
John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History, 2003

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
Bryan Mark Rigg
Colby Award, William T. Colby Military Writer's Symposium, 2003

Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
Robert J. Cottrol, Raymond T. Diamond, and Leland B. Ware
David J. Langum Sr. Award, The Langum Project for Historical Fiction, 2003

Women in the Barracks
Philippa Strum
Scribes Merit Award, American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects, 2002

Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
John A. Rohr
Louis Brownlow Award, The National Academy of Public Administration, 2002

After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War
Antulio J. Echevarria II
U.S. Army War College Best Book Award, 2002
Phi Alpha Theta Award, History Honor Society

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom
Michael Harrington Award, New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association, 2002

Building Civic Capacity
Clarence Stone, Jeffrey R. Henig, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi,
Best Book on Urban Politics, co-winner, American Political Science Association, 2002

Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell’s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922
James R. Shortridge
Annual Book Award, Association of American Geographers, 2002

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THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Confronting the Odds: African-American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Bessie House-Soremekun
Henry Howe Award, Ohio Genealogical Society, 2003

Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection
Deanna Adams
Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, finalist, ARSC, 2003

Campfires of Freedom: The Camplife of Black Soldiers during the Civil War
Keith P. Wilson
Seaborg Award, finalist, The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, 2003

Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern
Jeffrey Hammond
Finalist in Essay/Creative Non-Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards,
2003

From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865
Gary L. Bunker
Book of the Year Award, silver, history, Foreword Magazine, 2002 in History
Ewell L. Newman Book Award, American Historic Print Collectors Society, 2002

Blood & Ink
Albert Borowitz
Finalist for Edgar SM Prize, Mystery Writers of America, 2002
Gold Winner for True Crime, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year, 2002

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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY

Faces of Kentucky
James C. and Freda C. Klotter
Award of Merit, History Confederation of Kentucky, Publication Category, 2007

Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency
William J. Daugherty
Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), 2006

Restoring Shakertown: The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Thomas Parrish
Kentucky Literary Award, 2005

Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
John A. Rohr
Herbert A. Simon Book Award, 2005

To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance
Richard J. Ellis
Langum Prize for Legal History/Legal Biography, 2005

Caught Between Worlds: British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction
Joe Snader
Independent Scholars Prize, Modern Language Association, 2001
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002

James Ramage
Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 2002
Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby
Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan

Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle
Kenneth W. Noe
Seaborg Civil War Prize, United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University, 2002

From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems
James Still, edited by Ted Olson
Appalachian Book of the Year, Appalachian Writers Association, 2002

Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier
John Williams Green, edited by A.D. Kirwan
General Basil W. Duke Award, Military Order of the Stars & Bars, 2002

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Edward Steers, Jr.
Seaborg Civil War Prize, honorable mention, United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University, 2002
Best Lincoln Book, Lincoln Group of New York, 2001

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What Travels with Us
Darnell Arnoult
SIBA Book Award, Poetry, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, 2006

Floating City
Anne Pierson Wiese
Walt Whitman Award, The Academy of American Poets, 2006

Late Wife
Claudia Emerson
Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, 2006

Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-millennial South
Hal Crowther
The National Book Critics Circle Award, Criticism Finalist, 2006

Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005
Brendan Galvin
National Book Award, Poetry finalist, National Book Foundation, 2005

Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865
Larry J. Daniel
Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, Civil War Round Table of Atlanta, 2005

Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics
Wayne Parent
Louisiana Literary Award, Louisiana Library Association, 2005

Jay Wright
Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Lifetime Achievement Award, Yale University Library, 2005
Transfigurations: Collected Poems

Shirley Ann Grau
Louisiana Writer Award for contribution to Louisiana's heritage, Louisiana Book Festival, 2004
Selected Stories
The Hard Blue Sky
Roadwalkers

The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock
Francis Augustn O'Reilly
The Daniel M. and Marilyn W. Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table, 2004

Brightwood: Poems
R. T. Smith
7th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, poetry finalist, 2004

Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Edited by Fred Chappell
SEBA Book Award in Poetry, Southeastern Booksellers Association, 2004

Selected Stories
Shirley Ann Grau
Paterson Fiction Prize, Passaic County Community College, 2004

Autumn Grasses: Poems
Margaret Gibson
Connecticut Book Awards, Poetry Finalist, Connecticut Center for the Book, 2004

Henry Taylor
Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, Sewanee Review, 2004
Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews
Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets
The Flying Change: Poems

Reginald Gibbons
O. B. Hardison, Jr. Prize for body of work, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004
It's Time: Poems

Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and The Supreme Court During the Civil War Era
Michael A. Ross
Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, Shepherd College, 2004
Book Award, Honorable Mention, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Award, 2004

Notes from the Divided Country: Poems
Suji Kwock Kim
PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry, finalist, PEN Center West, 2004
New Writers Award, finalist, Great Lakes Colleges Association, 2004
Asian American Literary Awards Poetry, finalist, Asian American Writers' Workshop, 2004
Griffin Poetry Prize, finalist, Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2004
Northern California Book Award; finalist, poetry; Bay Area Reviewers Association, 2004
Kiriyama Prize, notable book, Pacific Rim Voices, 2004
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, Honorable Mention, 2004

The Ha-Ha Poems
David Kirby
Griffin Poetry Prize, finalist, Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 2004

The Green Girls: Poems
John Blair
The Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2004