"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given annually "by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history . . ." The award is named in honor of - believe it or not - Frederick Jackson Turner, and carries an award of $1000. The latest winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner award for author's first book of history is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the award. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The Latest Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award 2008 - The Populist Vision by Charles Postel [2009 award will be made early 2009]
All past Winners of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award 1959 - The Idea of Continental Union: Agitation for the Annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893 by Donald F. Warner
1960 - No award given
1961 - An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Vera Cruz by Robert E. Quirk
1962 - The Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of the American Civil Liberties Union by Donald O. Johnson
1963 - No award given
1964 - No award given
1965 - Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 by Ronald E. Shaw
1966 - Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 by James T. Patterson
1967 - Radicalism and Reform, 1837-1937 by Ross E. Paulson
1968 - No award given
1969 - Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to the Court of St. James by Ross Gregory
1970 - The Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith
1971 - The Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920 by John Garry Clifford
1972 - The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
1973 - Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner
1974 - Toward an Urban Vision by Thomas H. Bender
1975 - No award given
1976 - No award given
1977 - Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology by Merritt Roe Smith
1978 - Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 by Daniel T. Rodgers
1979 - Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years by Charles F. Fanning, Jr.
1980 - Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher
1981 - Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy by William C. Widenor
1982 - To Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson
1983 - Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism by Rosalind Rosenberg
1984 - The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 by Steven Hahn
1985 The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party by Barton C. Shaw Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz
1986 - Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal by Chester M. Morgan
1987 - Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts by Alexander Keyssar
1988 - Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano
1989 - Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson
1990 - The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell
1991 - The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 by Christopher F. Clark
1992 - When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1864 by Ramon A. Gutierrez
1993 - The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter
1994 - Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 by Peter Way
1995 - Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
1996 - Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell
1997 - Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
1998 - White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture by Neil Foley
1999 - From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley
2000 Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy B. Tyson Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson
2001 - Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling
2002 - The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism by Adam Rome
2003 - Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
2004 - White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 by Thomas A. Guglielmo
2005 - Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2006 - Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles
2007 Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism by Aaron Sachs
2008 - The Populist Vision by Charles Postel
2009 - Will be announced in Spring 2009
The Official Website of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for First Book of History
(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)
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"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
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