James A. Rawley Prize (OAH) facts for kids
The James A. Rawley Prize is an award given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). It celebrates the best book written about how different races have interacted in the United States. This prize honors the memory of James A. Rawley, who was a respected history professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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About the James A. Rawley Prize
What is the Prize For?
The James A. Rawley Prize recognizes amazing books that explore the history of race relations in America. These books help us understand how people from different backgrounds have lived together, faced challenges, and worked for change throughout history.
Who was James A. Rawley?
James A. Rawley was a very important history professor. He taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for many years. This prize was created to remember his work and his dedication to studying American history.
Past Winners
Here is a list of some of the talented authors and their books that have won the James A. Rawley Prize:
| 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 Witgen | Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America |
See also
- List of history awards
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