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 Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award.
Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians , formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S...
for an author's first book on American history.
It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award.
| Year | Winner | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 1960 | No award given. | |
| 1961 | Robert E. Quirk Robert E. Quirk Robert E. Quirk was an American historian, and professor emeritus at Indiana University.-External links:**... |
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) |
| 1963 | No award given. | |
| 1964 | No award given. | |
| 1965 | Ronald E. Shaw Ronald E. Shaw -Life:He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a Ph.D.He taught at Wayne State University, and Miami University from 1954 until 1993, the first W. E. Smith Professor of History.-External links:... |
Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 (University of Kentucky) |
| 1966 | James T. Patterson James T. Patterson (historian) James T. Patterson is an American historian, Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University.-Awards:* 1966 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939* 1968 Guggenheim Fellow *... |
Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1967 | Ross E. Paulson Ross E. Paulson Ross Evans Paulson is an American historian.He taught at Augustana College from 1962 to 1995, and is Professor Emeritus.His papers are held at Augustana College Library.-Criticism:*-External links:*... |
Radicalism and Reform, 1837-1937 (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1968 | No award given. | |
| 1969 | Ross Gregory Ross Gregory (historian) -Life:He served in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Indiana University earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. He studied with Robert H. Ferrell.He taught at West Virginia University Institute of Technology, and at Western Michigan University from 1966 to 2005.-Works:... |
Walter Hines Page Walter Hines Page Walter Hines Page was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I.-Biography:... : Ambassador to the Court of St. James (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1970 | Robert Griffith Robert Griffith (historian) -Life:Robert Griffith was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Southern Indiana. He graduated from DePauw University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He taught at the University of Georgia, and at the University of... |
The Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1971 | John Garry Clifford John Garry Clifford -External links:*... |
The Citizen Soldiers (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1972 | Edward A. Purcell, Jr. Edward A. Purcell, Jr. -Life:Purcell grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended Rockhurst College, where he received a B.A. in 1962, then went on to the University of Kansas, earning an M.A. in American history in 1964. He received a Ph.D... |
The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1973 | Mary O. Furner Mary O. Furner -Life:She graduated from Northwestern University, with a Ph.D., in 1972.She teaches at University of California, Santa Barbara.-Awards:* 1973 Frederick Jackson Turner Award* 2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt... |
Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1974 | Thomas H. Bender Thomas H. Bender -Life:He graduated from Santa Clara University, and from University of California, Davis with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1971.He moderated an online discussion at History Matters.He teaches at New York University.... |
Toward an Urban Vision (University of Kentucky Press) |
| 1975 | No award given. | |
| 1976 | No award given. | |
| 1977 | Merritt Roe Smith Merritt Roe Smith Merritt Roe Smith is an American historian, and the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology, at MIT.-Life:Smith graduated from Georgetown University, and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D... , |
Harpers Ferry Amory and the New Technology (Cornell University Press) |
| 1978 | Daniel T. Rodgers Daniel T. Rodgers -Life:He graduated from Brown University in Engineering, and from Yale University with a Ph.D.He is Henry Charles Lea Professor at Princeton University.His work appeared in Harper's.... |
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 John Mack Faragher -Life:He was raised in southern California, the oldest of eight children. Several of his siblings have been in the pop music business, including Danny Faragher, Jimmy Faragher, Tommy Faragher, Davey Faragher, Pammy Faragher, and Marty Faragher. He graduated from the University of California,... |
Women and Men on the Overland Trail (Yale University Press) |
| 1981 | William C. Widenor William C. Widenor -Works:* “Henry Cabot Lodge: The Astute Parliamentarian.” First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard A. Baker and Roger H. Davidson, pp. 38–62... |
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy (University of California Press) |
| 1982 | Clayborne Carson Clayborne Carson Clayborne Carson is an African American professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther... |
To Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press) |
| 1983 | Rosalind Rosenberg Rosalind Rosenberg -Life:She graduated from Stanford University, with a BA and Ph.D., in 1974.She teaches at Barnard College.Her papers are held at Radcliffe College.... |
Beyond Separate Spheres (Yale University Press) |
| 1984 | Steven Hahn Steven Hahn Steven Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at the University of Pennsylvania.-Life:Educated at the University of Rochester, where he worked with Eugene Genovese and Herbert Gutman, Hahn received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His dissertation was overseen by... |
The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford University Press) |
| 1985 | Barton C. Shaw Barton C. Shaw Barton C. Shaw is an American historian.He graduated from Emory University, with a Ph.D.He teaches at Cedar Crest College.-Awards:* 1985 Frederick Jackson Turner Award* Ford Foundation Fellow... |
The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party (Louisiana State University Press) |
| 1985 | Sean Wilentz Sean Wilentz Robert Sean Wilentz is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979.-Background:Born in 1951 in New York City, where his father Eli and uncle Ted owned a well-known Greenwich Village bookstore, the Eighth Street Bookshop, Wilentz earned... |
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (Oxford University Press) |
| 1986 | Chester M. Morgan Chester M. Morgan -Life:He graduated from University of Southern Mississippi, with a BA and M.A. in 1974, and Memphis State University, with a Ph. D. in history in 1982... |
Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal (Louisiana State University Press) |
| 1987 | Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar Alexander Keyssar is an American historian, and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization... |
Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Cambridge University Press) |
| 1988 | David Montejano David Montejano David Montejano is an American sociologist, and historian.-Life:He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and from Yale University with a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of New Mexico... |
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (University of Texas Press) |
| 1989 | Bruce Nelson Bruce Nelson (historian) Joseph Bruce Nelson is a professor of history at Dartmouth College. He is a noted labor historian and scholar of the history of the concepts of race and class in the United States and among Western European immigrants to the U.S.... |
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 (Institute of Early American History and Culture and The University of North Carolina Press) |
| 1991 | Christopher F. Clark Christopher F. Clark -Life:He grew up in the London area.He graduated from the University of Warwick, and Harvard University, with a PhD in History.He taught at the University of York for eighteen years, and at the University of Warwick for another seven years... |
The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 (Cornell University Press) |
| 1992 | Ramón A. Gutiérrez Ramón A. Gutiérrez -Life:He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a Ph.D.He taught at the University of California, San Diego.He teaches at the University of Chicago.-Awards:* 1992 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the American Historical Association... |
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1864 (Stanford University Press) |
| 1993 | Daniel K. Richter Daniel K. Richter -Life:He graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at Dickinson College and the University of East Anglia. He teaches at University of Pennsylvania.-Awards:... |
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 Peter Way -Life:He graduated from Trent University, in 1981, Queen's University with an M.A., in 1983, and University of Maryland, College Park with a Ph.D., in 1991.He taught at Bowling Green State University.... |
Common Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 (Cambridge University Press) |
| 1995 | George Chauncey George Chauncey George Chauncey is a professor of history at Yale University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 .-Life and works:... |
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books) |
| 1996 | James T. Campbell James T. Campbell -Life:He graduated from Yale University, in 1980, and from Stanford University, with a Ph.D. in 1989.He taught at Northwestern University and at Brown University,.He teaches at Stanford University.... |
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 Neil Foley -Life:He graduated from the University of Virginia, from Georgetown University with an M.A., and from the University of Michigan, with an M.A. and Ph.D... |
White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, (University of California Press) |
| 1999 | Amy Dru Stanley Amy Dru Stanley -Biography :She graduated from Princeton University in 1978, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1990.She taught at the University of California, Irvine.She teaches at the University of Chicago.... |
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 Walter Johnson (historian) Walter Johnson is a leading American historian specializing in the history of slavery, capitalism, and imperialism.-Life:Walter Johnson was born in Columbia, Missouri, the first son of Walter Johnson, Sr. and Mary Angela Johnson... , New York University |
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press) |
| 2001 | Lisa Norling Lisa Norling -Life:She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D.She teaches at the University of Minnesota. She also teaches at the Frank C... , 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 Adam Rome Adam Ward Rome is an American environmental historian. In his book Bulldozer in the Countryside, he examines how the post World War II residential construction boom and its resulting urban sprawl contributed to the rise of the modern environmental movement.... , Pennsylvania State University |
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2003 | James F. Brooks James F. Brooks James F. Brooks is an American historian whose work on slavery, captivity and kinship in the Southwest Borderlands was honored with major national history awards: the Bancroft Prize, Francis Parkman Prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Frederick Douglass Prize... , 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 Thomas A. Guglielmo -Life:Thomas Angelo Guglielmo was born to Thomas Joseph and Maryloretta Guglielmo in 1969. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, received a BA from Tufts University, and a Ph.D... , University of Notre Dame |
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 (Oxford University Press) |
| 2005 | Mae M. Ngai Mai Ngai Mae M. Ngai an American historian and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. She focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, and race in 20th-century United States history.... , University of Chicago |
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press). |
| 2006 | Tiya Alicia Miles Tiya Alicia Miles Tiya Alicia Miles is an American historian. She is an associate professor at the University of Michigan in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Department of History, and Native American Studies Program... , 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 Eiichiro Azuma Eiichiro Azuma is an American historian, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania .- Life :He graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with an M.A... , University of Pennsylvania |
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press). |
| 2007 | Ned Blackhawk Ned Blackhawk Ned Blackhawk is a Te-Moak tribe, Western Shoshone American historian currently on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his second major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West .-Life:Blackhawk grew up as an... , University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard University Press). |
| 2007 Honorable Mention | Aaron Sachs Aaron Sachs (historian) -Life:He graduated from Harvard University, and from Yale University, with a Ph.D. in 2004.He teaches at Cornell University.-Works:*"Special Topics in Calamity History", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463 -Reviews:Sachs has taken the nineteenth... , Cornell University |
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking). |
| 2008 | Charles Postel Charles Postel Charles Postel is an American historian specializing in politics, reform movements, populism, and the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.-Life:He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. He is a professor of history at San Francisco State University.-Awards:* 2008... , California State University, Sacramento |
The Populist Vision (Oxford University Press). |
| 2009 | Leslie Brown Leslie Brown (historian) -Life:Brown grew up in Albany, New York. She graduated from Tufts University, and from Duke University with an A. M. and Ph.D. From 1990-1995, she co-coordinated "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South".... , Williams College |
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The University of North Carolina Press). |