EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award Winners

1985 James H. Merrell, "The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience," William and Mary Quarterly, 3 ser. 41 (October, 1984), 537-565.

1987 Nancy A. Hewitt, "Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America," Feminist Studies, 12, no. 1 (Spring 1986), 27-49.

1989 Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "The Mask of Obedience: Male Slave Psychology in the Old South," American Historical Review, 93 (December 1988), 1228-1252.

1991 Steven Hahn, "Class and State in Postemancipation Societies: Southern Planters in Comparative Perspective," American Historical Review , Feb. 1990

1993 William J. Cronon, "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History, March 1992.

1995 Robin D.G. Kelley, "`We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," Journal of American History, June 1993.

1997 Peggy Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies in Twentieth Century America" Journal of American History, June 1996.

1999 Lizabeth Cohen, "From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America," American Historical Review, October, 1996.

2001  Christopher L. Brown, Rutgers University, "Empire Without Slaves:  British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly, April, 1999

2003 Bryant Simon, University of Georgia, "New York Avenue:  The Life and Death of Gay Spaces in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1920-1990," Journal of Urban History 28, March 2002

Michael P. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, "Denmark Vesey and his Co-Conspirators," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. LVIII, October 2001

2005 François Furstenberg, Université de Montréal, “Beyond Freedom and Slavery: Autonomy, Virtue, and Resistance in Early American Political Discourse,” Journal of American History, March 2003

2007 Joon K. Kim, Colorado State University, "The Political-Economy of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, 1942-1964," Aztlán:  A Journal of Chicano Studies

[09-07: name changed to EBSCOhost: America: History and Life Award]

2009 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and Clarence Lang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “The ‘Long Movement’ as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies” (The Journal of African American History, Spring 2007).

Dylan Craig Penningroth, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation, “The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison” (The American Historical Review, October 2007).