Congratulations to our 2021 OAH Award Winners!
The Organization of American Historians honored three of our authors with seven awards. Congratulations to all! Visit our OAH 2021 virtual exhibit to get these books (and more) at our 40% conference discount.
You can view the OAH’s 2021 Meeting Awards Ceremony here.
Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State by Garrett Felber
2021 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award for the best book in American intellectual history.
The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández
2021 Merle Curti Social History Award for the best book in American social history.
2021 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for the best book on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.
2021 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the best first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history.
The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battle for Home, Freedom, and the Nation by Thavolia Glymph
2021 Civil War and Reconstruction Book for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.
2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history.
2021 Mary Nickliss Prize for the most original book in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History.
About the OAH: Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. The mission of the organization is to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and to encourage wide discussion of historical questions and the equitable treatment of all practitioners of history.