Recent Awards
Prizes Awarded in 2008
Bruce J. Dierenfield
The Battle Over School Prayer
Langum Prize in American Legal History
Prizes Awarded in 2007
Peter Gardella
American Angels
Named a Library Journal Best Book of 2007
Kenneth Osgood
Total Cold War
Herbert Hoover Book Award
Joni L. Kinsey
Thomas Moran's West
Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Jim Hoy
Flint Hills Cowboys
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Lora Jost and Dave Loewenstein
Kansas Murals
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Craig Miner
Next Year Country
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2006
Colleen O'Neill
Working the Navajo Way
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, Historical Society of New Mexico
Mary E. Stuckey
Defining Americans
Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communcation Research Award
Phillip Deloria
Indians in Unexpected Places
John C. Ewers Book Award, Western History Association
David M. Barrett
The CIA and Congress
D. B. Hardeman Prize, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
Christopher J. Bosso
Environment, Inc.
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, American Political Science Association
Louis Fisher
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power
Richard E. Neustadt Award, American Political Science Association
Richard J. Ellis
To the Flag
Langum Prize in American Legal History
John. M. Shaw
The Cambodian Campaign
Distinguished Writing Award, Army Historical Foundation
Michael John Haddock
Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2005
C. Wyatt Evans
The Legend of John Wilkes Booth
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
Albert R. Samuels
Is Separate Unequal?
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
John A. Rohr
Civil Servants and Their Constitutions
Herbert A. Simon Book Award, American Political Science Association
Donald R. Shaffer
After the Glory
Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship
James R. Shortridge
Cities on the Plains
American Association of Geographers Globe Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Prizes Awarded in 2004
Stephen R. Taaffe
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
Robert M. Citino
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association
Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History
Jeffrey Kimball
The Vietnam War Files
Link-Kuehl Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Richard A. Grounds, George E. Tinker, and David E. Wilkins
Native Voices
Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Ronald M. Labbé and Jonathan Lurie
The Slaughterhouse Cases
Scribes Award, sponsored by the American Society of Writers
on Legal Subjects
Robert B. Bruce
A Fraternity of Arms
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize, Western Front Association
Ted T. Cable and Wayne A. Maley
Driving Across Kansas
Named "Outstanding Interpretive Site Publication for 2003"
by the National Association for Interpretation (six-state region)
Peter S. Kindsvatter
American Soldiers
Richard W. Leopold Prize, Organization of American Historians
Prizes Awarded in 2003
Mitchell B. Lerner
The Pueblo Incident
John Lyman Book Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
Bryan Mark Rigg
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
Colby Award, William T. Colby Military Writers Symposium
Philippa Strum
Women in the Barracks
Scribes Merit Award, American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
Honorable Mention: American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award
Prizes Awarded in 2002
Clarence N. Stone, Jeffrey R. Henig, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol
Pierannunzi
Building Civic Capacity
APSA Best Book on Urban Politics Award
Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom
Place Matters
APSA Michael Harrington Award
Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andrade
Spies and Commandos
Richard W. Leopold Prize, sponsored by the Organization of American
Historians
Antulio J. Echevarria II
After Clausewitz
U.S. Army War College Best Book Award
Marilyn Irvin Holt
Indian Orphanages
Oklahoma Historical Society's Outstanding Book Award
James R. Shortridge
Our Town on the Plains
Association of American Geographers Book Prize
Prizes Awarded in 2001
Theresa Kaminski
Prisoners in Paradise
Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Award
Brian McAllister Linn
The Philippine War, 1899-1902
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Geoffrey P. Megargee
Inside Hitler's High Command
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Shawn Francis Peters
Judging Jehovah's Witnesses
Scribes Award, sponsored by the American Society of Writers on
Legal Subjects
Finalist, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
Washington Post Book World Notable Book in Religion and
Philosophy
Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Award
Jeffrey T. Richelson
America's Space Sentinels
Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical
Society
David F. Rudgers
Creating the Secret State
Henry Adams Prize, sponsored by the Society for History in the
Federal Government
Kimberly K. Smith
Dominion of Voice
Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, sponsored by the Organization
of American Historians
David Stone
Hammer and Rifle
Marshall Shulman Book Prize, sponsored by the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Inaugural Best First Book Prize, sponsored by The Historical
Society
Jonathan Zimmerman
Distilling Democracy
Young Scholars Award, sponsored by the American Educational Research
Association
Prizes Awarded in 2000
Marion Orr
Black Social Capital
Aaron Wildavsky Award, sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization
William M. Hammond
Reporting Vietnam
Richard W. Leopold Prize, sponsored by the Organization of American
Historians
Peter R. Mansoor
The GI Offensive in Europe
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Michael D. Pearlman
Warmaking and American Democracy
Henry Adams Prize, sponsored by the Society for History in the
Federal Government
Prizes Awarded in 1999
Robert J. Duffy
Nuclear Politics in America
Lynton Caldwell Award, sponsored by the Science, Technology,
and Environmental Politics Section, American Political Science
Association
Sarah Elkind
Bay Cities and Water Politics
Abel Wolman Award, sponsored by the Public Works Historical Society
Jeffrey Kimball
Nixon's Vietnam War
Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations
Ohio Academy of History Book Award
Hal K. Rothman
Devil's Bargains
Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, for
Best Western Nonfiction-Contemporary
Lewis Sorley
Honorable Warrior
Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award
C. Bradley Thompson
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Foundations of Political Theory Award, sponsored by the American
Political Science Association
Elliott West
The Contested Plains
Francis Parkman Prize, sponsored by the Society of American Historians,
for literary distinction in the writing of history
PEN Center USA West Literary Award in Research Nonfiction
Ray Allen Billington Prize, sponsored by the Organization of
American Historians
Caughey Western History Association Prize
Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, for
Best Western Nonfiction-Historical
Caroline Bancroft Prize, sponsored by the Denver Public Library
Prizes Awarded in 1998
Michael Durey
Transatlantic Radicals and the Early
American Republic
SHEAR Prize, sponsored by the Society of Historians of the Early
American Republic
Robert Gough
Farming the Cutover
State Historical Society of Wisconsin Award of Merit
Barry V. Johnston
Pitirim Sorokin
North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement
Award
Forrest McDonald
The Presidency of George Washington
Named one of the ten greatest books ever written about the First
President's life and legacy by the Organization of American Historians
and Mount Vernon, Washington's home and estate, based on a poll
of professional historians
Charles J. Shindo
Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination
Caroline Bancroft Prize, sponsored by the Denver Public Library
Prizes awarded in 1997
David Wallace Adams
Education for Extinction
Caughey Western History Association Prize
AERA Prize, sponsored by the History of Education Division of
the Educational Research Association
Gareth Davies
From Opportunity to Entitlement
Ellis W. Hawley Prize, sponsored by the Organization of American
Historians
William C. Davis
The Cause Lost
Laney Prize, sponsored by the Austin Civil War Round Table
Earl J. Hess
The Union Soldier in Battle
U.S. Civil War Center Ribbon of Honor
Michael L. Johnson
New Westers
Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, for
Best Western Nonfiction-Contemporary
David E. Kyvig
Explicit and Authentic Acts
Bancroft Prize, sponsored by Columbia University
Henry Adams Prize, sponsored by the Society for History in the
Federal Government
Ohio History Association Book Prize
Norman Saul
Concord and Conflict
Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations
Craig L. Symonds
Stonewall of the West
S.A. Cunningham Award for Literary Accomplishment, sponsored
by the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Jacqueline Williams
Wagon Wheel Kitchens
Washington Museum Association Award of Excellence
Selected Prizes Awarded in Previous Years
Peri E. Arnold
Making the Managerial Presidency
Louis Brownlow Award, sponsored by the National Academy of Public
Administration
Robert G. Athearn
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century
America
Western Heritage Wrangler Award, sponsored by the National Cowboy
Hall of Fame
Albert Castel
Decision in the West
Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute,
Gettysburg College
David Dary
Cowboy Culture
National Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award
David Dary
Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, for
Best Western Nonfiction-Historical
Richard DeLeon
Left Coast City
APSA Urban Politics Section Best Book Award
Michael D. Doubler
Closing with the Enemy
Forrest C. Pogue Prize, sponsored by the Eisenhower Center, University
of New Orleans
New York Military Affairs Symposium Best Book Award
Ari Hoogenboom
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohioana Book Award, sponsored by the Ohio Library Association
Forrest McDonald
The American Presidency
Alabama Library Association Nonfiction Book Award
Salvatori Award, sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Phillip Shaw Paludan
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute,
Gettysburg College
Von Rothenberger
Sod and Stubble
American Association for State and Local History Certificate
of Commendation
Clarence Stone
Regime Politics
Ralph J. Bunche Award
APSA Urban Politics Section Best Book Award
Wiley Sword
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
Fletcher Pratt Award, sponsored by the Civil War Round Table
of New York
Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult
Governing the White House
Richard E. Neustadt Award, sponsored by the Presidency Research
Section of the American Political Science Association
Steven Woodworth
Davis and Lee at War
Fletcher Pratt Award, sponsored by the Civil War Round Table
of New York
Steven E. Woodworth
Jefferson Davis and His Generals
Fletcher Pratt Award, sponsored by the Civil War Round Table
of New York
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