James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)

The James A. Rawley Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH), for the best book on race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Year Winner OAH Rawley Prize Title of OAH Rawley Prize Affiliation1990Kenneth L. KarstBelonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution (Yale University Press)UCLA School of Law1991Douglas MonroyThrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (University of California Press)Colorado College1992 co-winnerRichard WhiteThe Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (Cambridge University Press)Stanford University1992 co-winnerRamón A. GutiérrezWhen Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford University Press)University of California, San Diego1993Edward L. AyersThe Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Oxford University Press)University of Virginia1994Michael K. HoneySouthern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (University of Illinois Press)1995Nancy MacLeanBehind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press)Northwestern University1996Peter W. BardaglioReconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South (University of North Carolina Press)Goucher College1997Glenda Elizabeth GilmoreGender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 (University of North Carolina Press)Yale University1998Daryl Michael ScottContempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996 (University of North Carolina Press)Columbia University1999Brian WardJust My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (University of California Press)University of Newcastle upon Tyne2000Timothy B. TysonRadio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press)University of Wisconsin–Madison2001Sherry L. SmithReimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes 1880–1940 (Oxford University Press)Southern Methodist University2002 co-winnerJ. William HarrisDeep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press)University of New Hampshire2002 co-winnerDavid W. BlightRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press)Amherst College2003 co-winnerSharla M. FettWorking Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (University of North Carolina Press)Occidental College2003 co-winnerShane WhiteStories of Freedom in Black New York (University of North Carolina Press)University of Sydney2004Barbara RansbyElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press)University of Illinois at Chicago2005Robert O. Self American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton University Press)Brown University2006James Edward SmethurstThe Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (University of North Carolina Press)University of Massachusetts Amherst2007Paul A. KramerThe Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor2008Susan Eva O'DonovanBecoming Free in the Cotton South (Harvard University Press)Harvard University2009Vincent BrownThe Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press)Harvard University2010Julie GreeneThe Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (The Penguin Press)University of Maryland, College Park2011Daniel Martinez HoSangRacial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press)University of Oregon2012Cindy HahamovitchNo Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press)College of William & Mary2013Laura BriggsSomebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Duke University Press)University of Massachusetts Amherst2014Brenda E. StevensonThe Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (Oxford University Press)University of California2015Daniel BergerCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (The University of North Carolina Press)University of Washington, Bothell2016Margaret Ellen NewellBrethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (Cornell University Press)Ohio State University2017Robert G. ParkinsonThe Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (The University of North Carolina Press)Binghamton University2018 co-winnerKelly Lytle HernándezCity of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (The University of North Carolina Press)UCLA2018 co-winnerTiya MilesThe Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (The New Press)University of Michigan2019Jeffrey C. StewartThe New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press)University of California, Santa Barbara2020Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership (The University of North Carolina Press)Princeton University2021Vincent BrownTacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)Harvard University2022Destin JenkinsThe Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago Press)Stanford University2023Michael John WitgenSeeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press)Columbia University 2024Kevin KennyThe Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press)New York University 2025Sarah L. H. GronningsaterThe Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press)University of Pennsylvania 2026Emilie ConnollyVested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States (Princeton University Press)Brandeis University

James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)

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