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The James A. Rawley Prize is a special award given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). This prize honors the best book written about how different racial groups have interacted in the United States. It helps recognize important historical research.

The award is named after James A. Rawley. He was a respected history professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He taught history for many years.

Winners of the James A. Rawley Prize

This prize has been given to many talented historians over the years. Their books help us understand the history of race relations in America.

Year Winner Title of Book
1990 Kenneth L. Karst Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution
1991 Douglas Monroy Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California
1992 co-winner Richard White The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
1992 co-winner Ramón A. Gutiérrez When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, ... and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846
1993 Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction
1994 Michael K. Honey Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
1995 Nancy MacLean Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
1996 Peter W. Bardaglio Reconstructing the Household: Families, ... and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South
1997 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920
1998 Daryl Michael Scott Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996
1999 Brian Ward Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
2000 Timothy B. Tyson Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
2001 Sherry L. Smith Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes 1880–1940
2002 co-winner J. William Harris Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
2002 co-winner David W. Blight Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
2003 co-winner Sharla M. Fett Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
2003 co-winner Shane White Stories of Freedom in Black New York
2004 Barbara Ransby Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
2005 Robert O. Self American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
2006 James Edward Smethurst The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
2007 Paul A. Kramer The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
2008 Susan Eva O'Donovan Becoming Free in the Cotton South
2009 Vincent Brown The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
2010 Julie Greene The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal
2011 Daniel Martinez HoSang Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
2012 Cindy Hahamovitch No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
2013 Laura Briggs Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
2014 Brenda E. Stevenson The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
2015 Daniel Berger Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
2016 Margaret Ellen Newell Brethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
2017 Robert G. Parkinson The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
2018 co-winner Kelly Lytle Hernández City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
2018 co-winner Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
2019 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2020 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership
2021 Vincent Brown Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
2022 Destin Jenkins The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
2023 Michael John Witgen Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
2024 Kevin Kenny The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States

See also

  • List of history awards
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