Avery O. Craven Award

The Avery O. Craven Award, first given in 1985, is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the most original history book on the coming of the American Civil War, the Civil War years (1861–1865), or the Era of Reconstruction (1875–1877), with the exception of works of purely military history. The exception recognizes and reflects Craven's Quaker convictions. Professor Avery O. Craven was President of the Organization of American Historians, 1963-1964.

A 3-member committee, chosen by the OAH President, picks the winner. The winner receives $200.00. Co-winners were named in 1998 and 2008. In 2002, the winner Don E. Fehrenbacher had died in 1997, but a former student of Fehrenbacher's completed and edited the book in time for the 2002 award schedule.

In the table below, the link on the author is the most recent available. Priority is given to a “Wikipedia” entry. The link to the “Affiliation”—usually an academic institution appointment—is that affiliation at the time the award was given.

Year Winner Affiliation Book Title
1985 Michael Perman[1] University of Illinois at Chicago Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879
1986 Dan T. Carter Emory University When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South 1865-1867
1987 Clarence L. Mohr[2] Tulane University On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia
1988co William E. Gienapp[3] University of Wyoming The Origins of the Republican Party 1852-1856
1988co Peter Kolchin[4] University of Delaware Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
1989 Eric Foner[5] Columbia University Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
1990 Lewis P. Simpson[6] Louisiana State University Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes
1991 Grace Palladino[7] AFL-CIO Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68
1992 William S. McFeely University of Georgia Frederick Douglass
1993 Tyler Anbinder[8] George Washington University Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s
1994 Eric Lott University of Virginia Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
1995 Julie Saville[9] University of Chicago The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870
1996 David Gollaher California Healthcare Institute Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix
1997 Drew Gilpin Faust University of Pennsylvania Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
1998co William G. Shade[10] Lehigh University Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System,1824-1861
1998co Mark M. Smith University of South Carolina Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
1999 Amy Dru Stanley University of Chicago From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
2000 Walter Johnson[11] New York University Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
2001 Lyde Cullen Sizer[12] Sarah Lawrence College The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
2002 Don E. Fehrenbacher Stanford University The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery
2002note Ward M. McAfee [13] California State University, San Bernardino A former student of Fehrenbacher's, McAfee completed and edited the 2002 award book.
2003 John Stauffer[14] Harvard University The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race
2004 Dylan C. Penningroth[15] Northwestern University The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
2005 C. Wyatt Evans[16] Drew University The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy
2006 Anne Sarah Rubin[17] University of Maryland, Baltimore County A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
2007 Mark Elliott[18] Wagner College Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
2008 Chandra Manning[19] Georgetown University What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War
2009 Edward B. Rugemer[20] Yale University The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War
2010 Hannah Rosen[21] University of Michigan Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Post-Emancipation South

References

  1. ^ http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/Perman.htm Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  2. ^ http://www.southalabama.edu/history/faculty/mohr/ Last viewed on 02/26/2011.
  3. ^ http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/04.07/20-mm.html Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  4. ^ http://www.udel.edu/History/bio/kolchincv.pdf Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  5. ^ http://www.ericfoner.com/ Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  6. ^ Hobson, “The Life and Works of Lewis P. Simpson (1916-2005)” The Southern Review v42 n2 (Spring 2006): 227-231.
  7. ^ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/grace-palladino/6/960/403Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  8. ^ http://www.gwu.edu/~history/people/Anbinder.cfm Last viewed 02/26/2011.
  9. ^ No individual site found. Last searched 02/26/2011.
  10. ^ No individual site found. Last searched 02/26/2011.
  11. ^ http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/walterjohnson Last viewed 02/23/2011.
  12. ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~lsizer/bio.html Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  13. ^ csbs.csusb.edu/CSBS_HOF_2010.pdf Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  14. ^ http://www.aaas.fas.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/john-stauffer Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  15. ^ http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/faculty/profile/22 Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  16. ^ http://www.drew.edu/depts/depts.aspx?id=40447 Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  17. ^ http://userpages.umbc.edu/~arubin/asrvita.html Last viewed on 02/24/2011.
  18. ^ http://www.wagner.edu/news/elliott Last viewed on March 31, 2011.
  19. ^ http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/cmm97/?PageTemplateID=125 Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  20. ^ http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/rugemer.html Last viewed 02/24/2011.
  21. ^ no individual page found. Last searched 02/26/2011.