Merle Curti Award
The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history.[1][2][3] A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author(s). Committee members represent the entire spectrum of American history and serve a one-year term. Beginning with the awards of 2004, the Committee may select 1 book "winner" in American intellectual history, 1 book "winner" in American social history, and may list other "finalists" in each field. "Winners" split a $1000 cash award.[4] Although not explicitly stated, "American" refers to the "United States of America" alone.
| Year | Winner | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Henry F. May | The Enlightenment in America (Oxford University Press) |
| 1979 | Garry Wills | Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Doubleday) |
| 1980 | Paul E. Johnson | A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (Hill and Wang) |
| Thomas Dublin | Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (Columbia University Press) | |
| 1981 | James T. Schleifer | The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 1982 | George M. Fredrickson | White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History |
| 1983 | Norman Fiering | Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (Institute of Early American History by the University of North Carolina Press) |
| 1984 | Dino Cinel | From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience (Stanford University Press) |
| 1985 | Leo P. Ribuffo | The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Temple University Press) |
| 1986 | Kerby A. Miller | Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford University Press) |
| 1987 | James T. Kloppenberg | Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press) |
| 1988 | Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones and Christopher B. Daly | Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (University of North Carolina Press) |
| Marcus Rediker | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World: 1700-1750 (Cambridge University Press) | |
| 1989 | Edmund S. Morgan | Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (Norton) |
| 1990 | James H. Merrell | The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbor from European Contact thru the Era of Removal (Institute of Early American History by the University of North Carolina Press) |
| 1991 | David D. Hall | Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (Knopf) |
| John L. Brooke | The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713-1861 (Cambridge University Press) | |
| 1992 | David R. Roediger | The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Verso) |
| 1993 | Robert B. Westbrook | John Dewey and American Democracy (Cornell University Press) |
| 1994 | W. Fitzhugh Brundage | Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (University of Illinois Press) |
| 1995 | Wilfred M. McClay | The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America |
| 1996 | George Chauncey | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Cultural, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books) |
| 1997 | Lance Banning | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Cornell University Press) |
| Ann Douglas | Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) | |
| 1998 | Robert A. Orsi | Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes (Yale University Press) |
| 1999 | Rogers M. Smith | Civic Ideals |
| 2000 | Woody Holton | Forced Founders |
| Walter Johnson | Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press) | |
| 2001 | Kimberly K. Smith | The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics |
| 2002 | David W. Blight | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2003 | Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America |
| 2004 | Colin G. Calloway | One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (History of the American West) |
| George M. Marsden | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | |
| Steven Hahn | A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) | |
| 2005 | Steven Mintz | Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood |
| Michael O'Brien | Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 | |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Borgwardt | A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights |
| Thomas Dublin | The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century | |
| 2007 | Scott Reynolds Nelson | Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend |
| Moon-Ho Jung | Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (The Johns Hopkins University Press) | |
| 2008 | Marcus Rediker | The Slave Ship: A Human History |
| 2009 | Vincent Brown | The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press) |
| Pekka Hämäläinen | The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press) | |
| 2010 | Laura Dassow Walls | The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (The University of Chicago Press) |
| Seth Rockman | Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (The Johns Hopkins University Press) | |
| 2011 | Jefferson Cowie | Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (The New Press) |
| Stephanie McCurry | Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press) | |
| 2012 | Susan Pearson | The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (The University of Chicago Press) |
| Cindy Hahamovitch | No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press)) | |
| 2013 | Angus Burgin | The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Great Depression (Harvard University Press) |
| Brett Rushforth | Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (The University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) | |
| 2014 | W. Caleb McDaniel | The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Louisiana State University Press) |
| Alan Taylor | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 (W. W. Norton & Company) |
References
- ↑ "Merle Curti Award". The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes. The Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/OAH%20Merle%20Curti%20Award
- ↑ http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/curti/winners.html
- ↑ http://www.oah.org/about/committees/awards.html#curti