Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.

It was started in 1959, by the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award. [1] [2] [3]

YearWinnerTitle
1959 Donald F. Warner The Idea of Continuous Union: Agitation for the Annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893 (University of Kentucky Press).
1960No award given.
1961 Robert E. Quirk An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Vera Cruz (University Press of Kentucky).
1962 Donald O. Johnson The Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of the American Civil Liberties Union (University of Kentucky Press).
1963No award given.
1964No award given.
1965 Ronald E. Shaw Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 (University of Kentucky).
1966 James T. Patterson Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (University of Kentucky Press).
1967 Ross E. Paulson Radicalism and Reform, 1837-1937 (University of Kentucky Press).
1968No award given.
1969 Ross Gregory Walter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James (University of Kentucky Press).
1970 Robert Griffith The Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate (University of Kentucky Press).
1971 John Garry Clifford The Citizen Soldiers (University of Kentucky Press).
1972 Edward A. Purcell, Jr. The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (University of Kentucky Press).
1973 Mary O. Furner Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 (University of Kentucky Press).
1974 Thomas H. Bender Toward an Urban Vision (University of Kentucky Press).
1975No award given.
1976No award given.
1977 Merritt Roe Smith,Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology (Cornell University Press).
1978 Daniel T. Rodgers Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (University of Chicago Press).
1979 Charles F. Fanning, Jr. Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (University of Kentucky Press).
1980 John Mack Faragher Women and Men on the Overland Trail (Yale University Press).
1981 William C. Widenor Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (University of California Press).
1982 Clayborne Carson To Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press).
1983 Rosalind Rosenberg Beyond Separate Spheres (Yale University Press).
1984 Steven Hahn The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford University Press).
1985 Barton C. Shaw The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (Louisiana State University Press).
1985 Sean Wilentz Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (Oxford University Press).
1986 Chester M. Morgan Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal (Louisiana State University Press).
1987 Alexander Keyssar Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Cambridge University Press).
1988 David Montejano Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (University of Texas Press).
1989 Bruce Nelson Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (University of Illinois Press).
1990 James H. Merrell The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal (The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture).
1991 Christopher F. Clark The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Cornell University Press).
1992 Ramón A. Gutiérrez When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press).
1993 Daniel K. Richter The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (The University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture).
1994 Peter Way Common Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 (Cambridge University Press).
1995 George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books).
1996 James T. Campbell Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (Oxford University Press).
1997 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, (The University of North Carolina Press).
1998 Neil Foley White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, (University of California Press).
1999 Amy Dru Stanley From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press).
2000 Timothy B. Tyson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison		 Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press).
2000 Walter Johnson,
New York University		Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press).
2001 Lisa Norling,
University of Minnesota		Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (The University of North Carolina Press).
2002 Adam Rome,
Pennsylvania State University		The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press).
2003 James F. Brooks,
University of California, Santa Barbara		Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press).
2004 Thomas A. Guglielmo,
University of Notre Dame		White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (Oxford University Press).
2005 Mae M. Ngai,
University of Chicago		 Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press).
2006 Tiya Miles,
University of Michigan		Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press).
2006 Honorable Mention Eiichiro Azuma,
University of Pennsylvania		Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press).
2007 Ned Blackhawk,
University of Wisconsin, Madison		Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard University Press).
2007 Honorable Mention Aaron Sachs,
Cornell University		The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking).
2008 Charles Postel,
California State University, Sacramento		The Populist Vision (Oxford University Press).
2009 Leslie Brown,
Williams College		Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The University of North Carolina Press).
2010 Bethany Moreton,
University of Georgia		To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press).
2010 Honorable Mention Charlotte Brooks,
Baruch College		Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (University of Chicago Press).
2010 Honorable Mention Christine Keiner,
Rochester Institute of Technology		The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (University of Georgia Press).
2010 Honorable Mention Lisa Levenstein,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro		A Movement without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (University of North Carolina Press).
2011 Danielle L. McGuire,
Wayne State University		At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Alfred A. Knopf).
2012 David Sehat,
Georgia State University		The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford University Press).
2012 Honorable Mention James T. Sparrow,
University of Chicago		Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (Oxford University Press).
2013 Jonathan Levy,
Princeton University		Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Harvard University Press).
2014 Geraldo L. Cadava,
Northwestern University		Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard University Press).
2014 Honorable Mention Dawn Bohulano Mabalon,
San Francisco State University		Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California (Duke University Press).
2015 Allyson Hobbs,
Stanford University		A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Harvard University Press).
2015 Honorable Mention Jamie Cohen-Cole,
George Washington University		The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (University of Chicago Press).
2015 Honorable Mention Katherine C. Mooney,
Florida State University		Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack (Harvard University Press).
2015 Honorable Mention Kyle G. Volk,
University of Montana		Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford University Press).
2016 Mark G. Hanna,
University of California, San Diego		Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture).
2016 Honorable Mention Joshua L. Reid,
University of Washington		The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale University Press).
2016 Honorable Mention Andrew J. Torget,
University of North Texas		Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (University of North Carolina Press).
2017 Max Krochmal,
Texas Christian University		Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press).
2018 Brian McCammack,
Lake Forest College		Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago (Harvard University Press).
2018 Honorable Mention Courtney Fullilove,
Wesleyan University		The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press).
2018 Honorable Mention Julilly Kohler-Hausmann,
Cornell University		Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton University Press).
2019 Elizabeth Gillespie McRae,
Western Carolina University		Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (Oxford University Press).
2019 Finalist Jonathan Gienapp,
Stanford University		The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Harvard University Press).
2019 Finalist Monica Muñoz Martinez,
Brown University		The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press).
2019 Finalist Ana Raquel Minian,
Stanford University		Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press).
2020 Vincent DiGirolamo,
Baruch College		Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press).
2021 Johanna Fernandez,
Baruch College		The Young Lords: A Radical History (University of North Carolina Press).
2022 Gabriel Winant,
University of Chicago		The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press).
2023 Kathryn Olivarius,
Stanford University		Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

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References

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  2. ↑ "Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winners". The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes. The Organization of American Historians. Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  3. ↑ "Book awards: Frederick Jackson Turner Award". Library Thing: Book awards. LibraryThing . Retrieved 2013-11-12.
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