Prizes Awarded in 2024
Andrew Lewis Chadwick
Part-Time Soldiers
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award in Institutional/Functional History
Ian W. Shaw
Into the Sunset
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Margie Carr
Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue
George Ehrlich Award, Historic Kansas City
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Rebecca Ozier Schulte
The Jayhawk
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Jeff Bremer
A New History of Iowa
Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, State Historical Society of Iowa
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
When a Dream Dies
Dorothy Schwieder Excellence in Research Award, State Historical Society of Iowa
Jerry Harrington
Thunder from the Prairie
Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award Certificate of Recognition, State Historical Society of Iowa
Katie Rose Guest Pryal
A Light in the Tower
Bronze Medal in Education (Commentary/Theory), Independent Publisher Book Awards
Brian Daldorph
Words Is a Powerful Thing
Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award, Washburn University
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Hopi Runners
Inducted into the Native American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame
Daniel Vandersommers
Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo
Junior Scholar Publication Award, Ohio Academy of History
Finalist, George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University
Semi-Finalist, Society for Midland Authors Award, History category
Mark R. Cheathem
Who Is James K. Polk?
Finalist, Tennessee History Book Award, Tennessee Historical Society
Dana Lloyd
Land Is Kin
Finalist, Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Timothy B. Smith
Early Struggles for Vicksburg
Finalist, American Battlefield Trust Prize for History
Ira Chernus and Randall Fowler
Something to Fear
Finalist, Living New Deal Book Award
Prizes Awarded in 2023
Jason Pierceson
Before Bostock
Best Book Award, American Political Science Association, Sexuality and Politics Section
William J. Woolley
Creating the Modern Army
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Tizoc Chavez
The Diplomatic Presidency
American Political Science Association Foreign Policy Section Best Book Award
Takahito Moriyama
Empire of Direct Mail
Shimizu Hiroshi Award, Japanese Association for American Studies
Andrew Porwancher, Austin Coffey, Taylor Jipp, and Jake Mazeitis
The Prophet of Harvard Law
Bronze Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
When a Dream Dies
Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, State Historical Society of Iowa
Kate Benz
Nothing But the Dirt
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Sherry Kay, Benjamin Sikes, and Caleb Morse
A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Hampton Newsome
Gettysburg’s Southern Front
Chicago Civil War Round Table Edwin C. Bearss Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Civil War History
Emerging Civil War Book Award
Craig Symonds
Stonewall of the West
Pritzker Museum and Library Literature Award for Achievement in Military Writing
Todd Andrew Schmidt
Silent Coup of the Guardians
Command and General Staff College Golden Pen Award
Prizes Awarded in 2022
Brian Linn
The Philippine War, 1899–1902
Real Soldiering
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History
Timothy B. Smith
Early Struggles for Vicksburg
The Seige of Vicksburg
The Union Assaults of Vicksburg
Grant Invades Tennessee
Shiloh
Corinth 1862
Frank E. Vandiver Award of Merit, Houston Civil War Round Table
Tai Edwards
Osage Women and Empire
Association of University Presses Stand UP Award for advocacy of university press publishing
Farina King
The Earth Memory Compass
Association of University Presses Stand UP Award for advocacy of university press publishing
Robert Wooster
The United States Army and the Making of America
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Mary E. Stuckey
Defining Americans
President and Executive Politics Legacy Award, American Political Science Association
Emily Pears
Cords of Affection
Best Book in American Political Thought, American Political Science Association, American Political Thought section
Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston
The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army
Templer Medal Book Prize, The Society for Army Historical Research
Beth Bailey
Beyond Pearl Harbor
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History
Nicole Perry
Policing Sex in the Sunflower State
Armitage-Jameson Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Jim Hoy
My Flint Hills
Flint Hills Cowboys
The Cattle Guard
Chester A. Reynolds Award, National Cowboy Museum
Tim Gruenewald
Curating America’s Painful Past
Honorable Mention, NCPH Book Award, National Council on Public History
Brian Daldorph
Words Is a Powerful Thing
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2021
Robert M. Citino
Quest for Decisive Victory
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm
The German Way of War
Death of the Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht Retreats
The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, Society for Military History
Trisha T. Pritikin
The Hanford Plaintiffs
Best Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Los Angeles Book Festival
Best Non-fiction, Paris Book Festival
Best General Nonfiction, New York Book Festival
First Place, Wild Card Category, Hollywood Book Festival
Finalist, US History, American Book Fest, Best Book Awards
Quarter Finalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition
Wade Davies
Native Hoops
John C. Ewers Book Award, Western History Association
Geoffrey P. Megargee
Inside Hitler’s High Command
Edwin H. Simmons Award, Society for Military History
John Scott Reed
The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines
Distinguished Book Award, Army Historical Foundation
Kimberly K. Smith
The Conservation Constitution
Lynton Keith Caldwell Award, American Political Science Association
Terri Jennings Peretti
Partisan Supremacy
C. Herman Pritchett Book Award, American Political Science Association
Kyong-Min Son
The Eclipse of the Demos
Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, American Political Science Association
Steven Trout
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Dennis Raphael Garcia
Marine, Public Servant, Kansan
Latino Books Into Movies Award, Empowering Latino Futures
Jim Hoy
My Flint Hills
Byron Caldwell Smith Award, Hall Center for the Humanities
Lynda Beck Fenwick
Prairie Bachelor
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Lora Marlene Mawson
Mawson’s Mission
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2020
David M. Glantz
When Titans Clashed
Stumbling Colossus
Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944
Colossus Reborn
Companion to Colossus Reborn
Red Storm over the Balkans
To the Gates of Stalingrad
Armageddon in Stalingrad
Endgame at Stalingrad, Book One
Endgame at Stalingrad, Book Two
Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad
Battle for Belorussia
Stalingrad
Operation Don’s Main Attack
Operation Don’s Left Wing
Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Decoding Clausewitz
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize,Society for Military History
Trisha T. Pritikin
The Hanford Plaintiffs
History Book Award, San Francisco Book Festival
Silver Award, Journalism and Investigative Reporting, Nautilus Book Awards
First Place, History, San Francisco Book Award
Matthew R. Costello
The Property of the Nation
Finalist, George Washington Prize
Roger R. Reese
The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Book Prize, awarded by the World War One Historical Association
Hampton Newsome
The Fight for the Old North State
Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, Civil War Round Table of Atlanta
Emerging Civil War Book Award
Peter J. Dean
MacArthur’s Coalition
Jakobczak Memorial Book Award, U.S. Military History Group
Jonathan M. Steplyk
Fighting Means Killing
Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Award, U.S. Military History Group
Carl J. Guarneri
Lincoln’s Informer
Albert Castel Book Award, Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
Kimberly K. Smith
The Conservation Constitution
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society
Michael John Haddock and Craig C. Freeman
Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines in Kansas
Author’s Award of Excellence, Midwestern International Society of Arboriculture
Chuck Warner
Birds, Bones, and Beetles
Martin Kansas History Book Award, Kansas Authors Club
“It Looks Like a Million” Book Design Award, Kansas Authors Club
Finalist, High Plains Book Award
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Rex Buchanan, Burke Griggs, and Joshua Svaty
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2019
Keith E. Whittington
Repugnant Laws
Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center for the Constitution
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Hopi Runners
David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize, Western History Association
Dennis Raphael Garcia
Marine, Public Servant, Kansan
Best Biography, International Latino Book Awards
Seth Blumenthal
Children of the Silent Majority
James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical Association
John H. Morrow, Jr.
Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War
A Yankee Ace in the RAF
Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
Nicole Etcheson
Bleeding Kansas
A Generation at War
Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Achievement in Midwestern History
C.J. Janovy
No Place Like Home
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe, and John Herron, editors
Wide-Open Town
Missouri Conference on History Book Award
Brummett Echohawk with Mark Ellenberger
Trent Riley, editor
Drawing Fire
Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award
John Fliter
Child Labor in America
Finalist, Langum Prize in American Legal History
Max McCoy
Elevations
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Lana Wirt Myers, editor
The Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas Settler and Civil War Soldier
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2018
Jonathan M. Steplyk
Fighting Means Killing
Named one of the Best Civil War Books of 2018 by Civil War Monitor magazine
Max McCoy
Elevations
National Outdoor Book Award
Named Best Cultural West Book of 2018 by True West magazine
Richard S. Faulkner
Pershing’s Crusaders
Richard W. Leopold Prize, Organization of American Historians
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Book Prize, awarded by the World War One Historical Association
Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman
“A Great Power of Attorney”
Cooley Prize, Georgetown Center for the Constitution
Brian Steel Wills
Inglorious Passages
Richard B. Harwell Award, Civil War Round Table of Atlanta
Michael M. Walker
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War
Arthur Goodzeit Book Award, New York Military Affairs Symposium
Lynne Marie Getz
Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers
Penny Kanner Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
Timothy B. Smith
Grant Invades Tennessee
Albert Castel Book Award, Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table
C.J. Janovy
No Place Like Home
Headline Award, Johnson County Community College School of Journalism and Media Communications
Raymond A. Callahan
Triumph at Imphal-Kohima
Finalist, Templer Medal, Society for Army Historical Research
Bruce Kuklick
The Fighting Sullivans
Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, State Historical Society of Iowa
Mark E. Eberle
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Robert Rebein
Headlights on the Prairie
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2017
Louis Fisher
Congress
The Constitution and 9/11
Constitutional Conflicts between Congress and the President
Defending Congress and the Constitution
In the Name of National Security
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power
Nazi Saboteurs on Trial
Presidential War Power
Religious Liberty in America
Supreme Court Expansion of Presidential Power
Career Service Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section,
American Political Science Association
David Wallace Adams
Three Roads to Magdalena
Robert G. Athearn Award, Western History Association
David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize, Western History Association
Dan Flores
American Serengeti
Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Award
Finalist, Spur Award, Western Writers of America
Timothy B. Smith
Grant Invades Tennessee
Douglas Southall Freeman Award
Tennessee History Book Award
Emerging Civil War Book Award
George Frazier
The Last Wild Places of Kansas
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award
Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History
Midwest Book Award, Nature category
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Mark E. Eberle
Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award
Charles F. Hobson
The Great Yazoo Lands Sale
Finalist, David J. Langum St. Prize in American Legal History
Laurie S. Stoff
Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War
Best Book in Slavic Studies, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Michael John Haddock, Craig Freeman, and Janét E. Bare
Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas
Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award
David M. Glantz with Mary Elizabeth Glantz
The Battle for Belorussia
Editor’s Choice Award, Stone & Stone
Charles J. Dick
From Victory to Stalemate
From Defeat to Victory
Editor’s Choice Award, Stone & Stone
Stephen R. Taaffe
MacArthur’s Korean War Generals
Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award
Robert S. Ehlers Jr.
The Mediterranean Air War
Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award
Frank Carey and Jayni Carey
The New Kansas Cookbook
Gourmand Award, National Winner—Best Local Cuisine
William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball
Nixon’s Nuclear Specter
Honorable Mention, Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award
Prizes Awarded in 2016
Lawrence M. Friedman
The Big Trial
Scribes Award, sponsored by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
Amy M. Ware
The Cherokee Kid
Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History Award, Oklahoma Historical Society
Edward G. Lengel
Thunder and Flames
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
Stephen Haycox
Battleground Alaska
James H. Ducker Historian of the Year, Alaska Historical Society
Conrad C. Crane
American Airpower Strategy in World War II
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953
Bombs, Cities, and Civilians
Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Society for Military History
Frank Van Nuys
Varmints and Victims
Caroline Bancroft Prize Honor Book
Donald Ratcliffe
The One-Party Presidential Contest
Richard E. Neustadt Prize, American Politics Group, Political Studies Association (UK)
Laurie S. Stoff
Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War
Smith Award, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
Lisa Ellen Silvestri
Friended at the Front
James W. Carey Media Research Award
Marc Milner
Stopping the Panzers
Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize
George Frazier
The Last Wild Places of Kansas
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award, Kansas Authors Club
Jonathan M. Conard and Kristin M. Conard
Kansas Trail Guide
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
William D. Street
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and the Buffalo
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Michael John Haddock, Craig C. Freeman, and Janét Bare
Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Michael Anderegg
Lincoln and Shakespeare
Lincoln Prize Finalist
Emily Lutenski
West of Harlem
Finalist, David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize
Prizes Awarded in 2015
Edward G. Lengel
Thunder and Flames
Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award
John E. Miller
Small-Town Dreams
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town
Frederick Jackson Turner Lifetime Achievement Award, Midwestern History Association
Sherry Simpson
Dominion of Bears
John Burroughs Medal, John Burroughs Association
Iralee Barnard
Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska
Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Matthew Cecil
Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division Book Award
Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award
Michael Nelson
Resilient America
Richard E. Neustadt Award, American Political Science Association
Timothy B. Smith
Shiloh
Douglas Southall Freeman Award
Julie K. deGraffenried
Sacrificing Childhood
Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship
George de Mohrenschildt; Michael A. Rinella, editor
Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him
Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, memoir category
Prizes Awarded in 2014
Liping Zhu
The Road to Chinese Exclusion
Caroline Bancroft Prize, sponsored by the Denver Public Library
Timothy B. Smith
Shiloh
Tennessee History Book Award
Richard B. Harwell Award, Civil War Round Table of Atlanta
Shelly McKenzie
Getting Physical
Popular Culture/American Culture Association John G. Cawelti Award
Archivists and Librarians in the History of Health Sciences Award
Martin P. Johnson
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln Prize, awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Samuel J. Watson
Jackson’s Sword and
Peacekeepers and Conquerors
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Steven Thomas Barry
Battalion Commanders at War
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Kyle Longley
The Morenci Marines
New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in History, given by the New Mexico Book Co-op
Gregory L. Schneider
Rock Island Requiem
George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, given by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
Michael W. Childers
Colorado Powder Keg
Ullr Award, International Ski History Association
Finalist, Western Writers of America Spur Award
Gwyneth Anne Thayer
Going to the Dogs
NASSH Book Award, North American Society for Sport History
Nancy Beck Young
Why We Fight
Guittard Book Award, Baylor University Department of History
Alexander Wohl
Father, Son, and Constitution
Honorable Mention, Langum Prize in American Legal History
Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Mark E. Brandon
States of Union
Finalist, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
Larry Gragg
Bright Light City
Finalist, Spur Award, Western Writers of America
Prizes Awarded in 2013
James R. Shortridge
Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822–2011
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers
Missouri History Book Award, State Historical Society of Missouri
Kniffen Award, Pioneer America Society
Robert M. Citino
The Wehrmacht Retreats
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Arthur Goodzeit Book Award, New York Military Affairs Symposium
Brian Steel Wills
George Henry Thomas
Richard B. Harwell Book Award, Civil War Round Table of Atlanta
Jean M. Yarbrough
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition
Richard E. Neustadt Award, American Political Science Association
Allan A. Ryan
Yamashita’s Ghost
George Pendleton Prize, awarded by the Society for History in the Federal Government
Kevin G. W. Olson
Frontier Manhattan
Edward N. Tihen Historical Publication Award, Kansas State Historical Society
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
William E. Unrau
Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to Santa Fe and Taos
Award of Merit, Santa Fe Trail Association
Craig Miner
A Most Magnificent Machine
George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, given by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
Donna B. Knaff
Beyond Rosie the Riveter
Emily Toth Award, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Timothy B. Smith
Corinth 1862
McLemore Prize, awarded by the Mississippi Historical Society
Glenn E. Torrey
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I
Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Book Prize, awarded by the World War One Historical Association
Brian M. Ingrassia
The Rise of Gridiron University
NASSH Book Award, North American Society for Sport History
Award of Superior Achievement from the Illinois State Historical Society
Larry Welch
Beyond Cold Blood
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Arnold J. Bauer
Time’s Shadow
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2012
Arnold J. Bauer
Time’s Shadow
Top Five Books of 2012, The Atlantic
Timothy B. Smith
Corinth 1862
Fletcher Pratt Award, awarded by The Civil War Round Table of New York
Max Holland
Leak
Top 100 Books of 2012, Kansas City Star
William C. Harris
Lincoln and the Border States
Book Prize, awarded by the Abraham Lincoln Association
Lincoln Prize, awarded by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Julie Courtwright
Prairie Fire
Caroline Bancroft Prize Honor Book
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Adrea Lawrence
Lessons from an Indian Day School
Honorable Mention, History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award
Nicole Etcheson
A Generation at War
Best Nonfiction Book of Indiana, awarded by the Indiana Center for the Book
Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
Sandra K. Schackel
Working the Land
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Award, Historical Society of New Mexico
Allan R. Millett
The War for Korea, 1950-1951
Harry S. Truman Book Award
Prizes Awarded in 2011
Peter J. Schifferle
America’s School for War
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Targeting the Third Reich
Best Air Power History Book Award, Air Force Historical Foundation
Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel
Frontier Feminist
Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History
Bruce J. Dierenfield
The Battle over School Prayer
Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Timothy J. Lomperis
The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon
Named one of the Best Books of 2011 by the St. Louis Post Dispatch
Philip J. Deloria
Indians in Unexpected Places
Voted one of the top ten books in Native American and Indigenous Studies by the membership of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Prizes Awarded in 2010
Jon Sumida
Decoding Clausewitz
Selected as one of the Top Ten Military Books of the Decade by the Marine Corps War College
Peter Schifferle
America’s School for War
Golden Pen Award, The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Edward J. Drea
Japan’s Imperial Army
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
John Prados
Vietnam
Henry Adams Prize, sponsored by the Society for History in the Federal Government
Mike Blair
A Kansas Year
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Prizes Awarded in 2009
Erika Bsumek
Indian-Made
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
New Mexico Book Award
Ingo Trauschweizer
The Cold War U.S. Army
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
Michael R. Fein
Paving the Way
Abel Wolman Award, American Public Works Association
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Hip-Hop Revolution
W. E. B. Du Bois Book Prize
Daniel M. Cobb
Native Activism in Cold War America
Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
Prizes Awarded in 2008
Peter Charles Hoffer and N.E.H. Hull, Series Editors
Landmark Law Cases and American Society
The series received the Scribes Award given by the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects
Gareth Davies
See Government Grow
APG Neustadt Book Prize
William C. Harris
Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency
Henry Adams Prize, sponsored by the Society for History in the Federal Government
Caroline Goeser
Picturing the New Negro
Vasari Award given by the Dallas Museum of Art
Shortlisted for the 2008 Modernist Studies Association Book Award
Harold H. Bruff
Bad Advice
Palmer Civil Liberties Prize
Anne Larason Schneider and Helen Ingram
Policy Design for Democracy
Aaron Wildavsky Award, American Political Science Association
Given for a book that has had “an enduring effect on the discipline.”
Allan R. Millett
The War for Korea, 1945–1950
Millett received the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
Harold R. Winton
Corps Commanders of the Bulge
Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award
Bruce J. Dierenfield
The Battle Over School Prayer
Langum Prize in American Legal History
Michael L. Johnson
Hunger for the Wild
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
Michael R. Fein
Paving the Way
New York State Archives Annual Award for Excellence in Research
Dale R. Herspring
The Pentagon and the Presidency
Selected for the 2008 Joint Forces Staff College Commandant’s Reading List
Beverley Worster, editor. Foreword by Donald Worster. Essays by Elizabeth Schultz. Ecosystem Facts by Kelly Kindscher. Photographs by Edward C. Robison III and Kyle Gerstner.
The Nature of Kansas Lands
Named a Kansas Notable Book by the Kansas Center for the Book
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
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
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
