Avery O. Craven Award Winners

1986 Dan T. Carter, When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South 1865-1867 (Louisiana State University Press)

1987 Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (University of Georgia Press)

1988 William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party 1852-1856 (Oxford University Press

Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Harvard University Press)

1989 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper & Row Publishers)

1990 Lewis P. Simpson, Mind and the American Civil War: A Meditation on Lost Causes (Louisiana State University Press)

1991 Grace Palladino, Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-68 (University of Illinois Press)

1992 William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass, (W.W. Norton & Co.)

1993 Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s, (Oxford University Press)

1994 Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, (Oxford University Press)

1995 Julie Saville, The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870, (Cambridge University Press)

1996 David L. Gollaher, Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix, (The Free Press)

1997 Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, (The University of North Carolina Press)

1998 William G. Shade, Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861, (University Press of Virginia)

Mark M. Smith, Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, (University of North Carolina Press)

1999 Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press)

2000 Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press)

2001  Lyde Cullen Sizer, Sarah Lawrence College, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 , (The University of North Carolina Press)

2002 Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University, The Slaveholding Republic:  An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery (Oxford University Press)  [Dr. Fehrenbacher died in 1997, but Ward M. McAfee, California State University-San Bernardino, a former student of Fehrenbacher's, completed and edited the book.]

2003 John Stauffer, Harvard University, The Black Hearts of Men:  Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Harvard University Press)

2004  Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University, The Claims of Kinfolk:  African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press)

2005 C. Wyatt Evans, Drew University, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy (University Press of Kansas)

2006 Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, A Shattered Nation:  The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 (University of North Carolina Press)

2007 Mark Elliott, Wagner College, Color-Blind Justice:  Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson (Oxford University Press)

2008 Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf)