Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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
1959Donald F. WarnerThe Idea of Continuous Union: Agitation for the Annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893 (University of Kentucky Press).
1960No award given.
1961Robert E. QuirkAn Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Vera Cruz (University Press of Kentucky).
1962Donald O. JohnsonThe 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.
1965Ronald E. ShawErie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 (University of Kentucky).
1966James T. PattersonCongressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (University of Kentucky Press).
1967Ross E. PaulsonRadicalism and Reform, 1837-1937 (University of Kentucky Press).
1968No award given.
1969Ross GregoryWalter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James (University of Kentucky Press).
1970Robert GriffithThe Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate (University of Kentucky Press).
1971John Garry CliffordThe Citizen Soldiers (University of Kentucky Press).
1972Edward A. Purcell, Jr.The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (University of Kentucky Press).
1973Mary O. FurnerAdvocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 (University of Kentucky Press).
1974Thomas H. BenderToward an Urban Vision (University of Kentucky Press).
1975No award given.
1976No award given.
1977Merritt Roe Smith,Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology (Cornell University Press).
1978Daniel T. RodgersWork Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (University of Chicago Press).
1979Charles F. Fanning, Jr.Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years (University of Kentucky Press).
1980John Mack FaragherWomen and Men on the Overland Trail (Yale University Press).
1981William C. WidenorHenry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (University of California Press).
1982Clayborne CarsonTo Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press).
1983Rosalind RosenbergBeyond Separate Spheres (Yale University Press).
1984Steven HahnThe Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford University Press).
1985Barton C. ShawThe Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (Louisiana State University Press).
1985Sean WilentzChants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (Oxford University Press).
1986Chester M. MorganRedneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal (Louisiana State University Press).
1987Alexander KeyssarOut of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Cambridge University Press).
1988David MontejanoAnglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (University of Texas Press).
1989Bruce NelsonWorkers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (University of Illinois Press).
1990James H. MerrellThe 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).
1991Christopher F. ClarkThe Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Cornell University Press).
1992Ramón A. GutiérrezWhen Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press).
1993Daniel K. RichterThe 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).
1994Peter WayCommon Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 (Cambridge University Press).
1995George ChaunceyGay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books).
1996James T. CampbellSongs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (Oxford University Press).
1997Glenda Elizabeth GilmoreGender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, (The University of North Carolina Press).
1998Neil FoleyWhite Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, (University of California Press).
1999Amy Dru StanleyFrom Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press).
2000Timothy B. Tyson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press).
2000Walter Johnson,
New York University
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press).
2001Lisa Norling,
University of Minnesota
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (The University of North Carolina Press).
2002Adam Rome,
Pennsylvania State University
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press).
2003James F. Brooks,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press).
2004Thomas A. Guglielmo,
University of Notre Dame
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (Oxford University Press).
2005Mae M. Ngai,
University of Chicago
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press).
2006Tiya Miles,
University of Michigan
Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press).
2006 Honorable MentionEiichiro Azuma,
University of Pennsylvania
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press).
2007Ned Blackhawk,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard University Press).
2007 Honorable MentionAaron Sachs,
Cornell University
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking).
2008Charles Postel,
California State University, Sacramento
The Populist Vision (Oxford University Press).
2009Leslie Brown,
Williams College
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The University of North Carolina Press).
2010Bethany Moreton,
University of Georgia
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press).
2010 Honorable MentionCharlotte Brooks,
Baruch College
Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (University of Chicago Press).
2010 Honorable MentionChristine Keiner,
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (University of Georgia Press).
2010 Honorable MentionLisa 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).
2011Danielle 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).
2012David Sehat,
Georgia State University
The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford University Press).
2012 Honorable MentionJames T. Sparrow,
University of Chicago
Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (Oxford University Press).
2013Jonathan Levy,
Princeton University
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Harvard University Press).
2014Geraldo L. Cadava,
Northwestern University
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard University Press).
2014 Honorable MentionDawn 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).
2015Allyson Hobbs,
Stanford University
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Harvard University Press).
2015 Honorable MentionJamie Cohen-Cole,
George Washington University
The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (University of Chicago Press).
2015 Honorable MentionKatherine C. Mooney,
Florida State University
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack (Harvard University Press).
2015 Honorable MentionKyle G. Volk,
University of Montana
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford University Press).
2016Mark 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 MentionJoshua L. Reid,
University of Washington
The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs (Yale University Press).
2016 Honorable MentionAndrew 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).
2017Max Krochmal,
Texas Christian University
Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press).
2018Brian McCammack,
Lake Forest College
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago (Harvard University Press).
2018 Honorable MentionCourtney Fullilove,
Wesleyan University
The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press).
2018 Honorable MentionJulilly Kohler-Hausmann,
Cornell University
Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America (Princeton University Press).
2019Elizabeth Gillespie McRae,
Western Carolina University
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (Oxford University Press).
2019 FinalistJonathan Gienapp,
Stanford University
The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Harvard University Press).
2019 FinalistMonica Muñoz Martinez,
Brown University
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press).
2019 FinalistAna Raquel Minian,
Stanford University
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press).
2020Vincent DiGirolamo,
Baruch College
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press).
2021Johanna Fernandez,
Baruch College
The Young Lords: A Radical History (University of North Carolina Press).
2022Gabriel Winant,
University of Chicago
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press).
2023Kathryn Olivarius,
Stanford University
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

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