Award-Winning Books

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2007
	Masterless Mistresses The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 Emily Clark An Award-Winning Book: Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association (2007) Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians for the best book in southern women’s history. (2008)
2006
	The Geographic Revolution in Early America Maps, Literacy, and National Identity Martin Brückner An Award-Winning Book: Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2006-2007)
	Sex among the Rabble An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 Clare A. Lyons An Award-Winning Book: James Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEAR (2007)
	American Curiosity Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World Susan Scott Parrish An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Prize (2005) Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Society (2006)
	Moral Capital Foundations of British Abolitionism Christopher Leslie Brown An Award-Winning Book: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2007) James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association (2006) Morris D. Forkosch Prize, American Historical Association (2006) Choice Outstanding Academic Book (2006)
	The Politics of War Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia Michael A. McDonnell An Award-Winning Book: General History Prize, New South Wales Premier's History Awards (2008)
2005
	Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 Steven W. Hackel An Award-Winning Book: James Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEAR (2006) Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Best Book, American Society for Ethnohistory (2006) Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (2006) Norman Neuerburg Award, Historical Society of Southern California (2006) W. Turrentine Jackson Award, Western History Association (2007)
	Town House Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830 Bernard L. Herman An Award-Winning Book: Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum (2006)
	By Birth or Consent Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority Holly Brewer An Award-Winning Book: James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association (2006) Cromwell Prize, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the American Society for Legal History (2006) Order of the Coif Book Award, Order of the Coif (2008)
2004
	A Colony of Citizens Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 Laurent Dubois An Award-Winning Book: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2005) David Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies (2004) Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association (2004) John Edwin Fagg Prize, American Historical Association (2004)
	Fish into Wine The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century Peter Pope An Award-Winning Book: John Lyman Book Award in Canadian Naval and Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History (2004) Clio Award, Atlantic Canada Region, Canadian Historical Association (2005) Honorable Mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2005)
2003
	At the Crossroads Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763 Jane T. Merritt An Award-Winning Book: Honorable Mention, Berkshire Conference First Book Prize (2004)
2002
	Captives and Cousins Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands James F. Brooks An Award-Winning Book: Bancroft Prize (2002) Frederick Jackson Turner Award (2003) Francis Parkman Prize Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize W. Turrentine Jackson Prize Frederick Douglass Book Prize (Second Prize)
2001
	Dear Papa, Dear Charley The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance,Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America Ronald Hoffman An Award-Winning Book: Maryland Historical Society Book Prize J. Franklin Jameson Award of the AHA (2007) Maryland Historical Society Book Prize J. Franklin Jameson Award of the AHA (2007) Maryland Historical Society Book Prize J. Franklin Jameson Award of the AHA (2007)
2000
	The Persistence of Empire British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution Eliga H. Gould An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Prize
	Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 Ronald Hoffman An Award-Winning Book: Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize Library of Virginia’s Non-Fiction Award Maryland Historical Society Book Prize Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize Library of Virginia’s Non-Fiction Award Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
1999
	A Speaking Aristocracy Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Christopher Grasso An Award-Winning Book: Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award
	The Other Founders Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 Saul Cornell An Award-Winning Book: Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize Choice Outstanding Academic Book (2000)
	Forced Founders Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Woody Holton An Award-Winning Book: Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians (2000) Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
1998
	Slave Counterpoint Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Philip D. Morgan An Award-Winning Book: Bancroft Prize (1999) Albert J. Beveridge Prize Wesley-Logan Prize South Carolina Historical Society Prize Elliott Rudwick Prize Jacques Barzun Prize Frederick Douglass Prize Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize Library of Virginia’s Non-Fiction Award Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1998)
	The Lord Cornbury Scandal The Politics of Reputation in British America Patricia U. Bonomi An Award-Winning Book: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York (1999)
1997
	In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 David Waldstreicher An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Prize
1996
	Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia Kathleen M. Brown An Award-Winning Book: John H. Dunning Prize in United States History Berkshire Conference Book Prize Honorable Mention
	Adapting to a New World English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake James Horn An Award-Winning Book: Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
	An Anxious Pursuit Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 Joyce E. Chaplin An Award-Winning Book: Willie Lee Rose Prize
1995
	Women before the Bar Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 Cornelia Hughes Dayton An Award-Winning Book: Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1996)
	In Public Houses Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts David W. Conroy An Award-Winning Book: Herbert Feis Award Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1995)
1994
	Farmers and Fishermen Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 Daniel Vickers An Award-Winning Book: John H. Dunning Prize in United States History Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
	Early American Technology Making and Doing Things from the Colonial Era to 1850 Judith A. McGaw An Award-Winning Book: Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1995)
1992
	The Ordeal of the Longhouse The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization Daniel K. Richter An Award-Winning Book: Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1993) Ray Allen Billington Prize Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1994)
	Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 Daniel H. Usner, Jr. An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award John H. Dunning Prize in United States History Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1993)
1991
	Robert Cole’s World Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland Lois Green Carr An Award-Winning Book: Maryland Historical Society Book Prize Alice Hanson Jones Prize Maryland Historical Society Book Prize Alice Hanson Jones Prize Maryland Historical Society Book Prize Alice Hanson Jones Prize
1990
	Unification of a Slave State The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808 Rachel N. Klein An Award-Winning Book: The Francis Butler Simkins Prize Willie Lee Rose Prize
	The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club by Dr. Alexander Hamilton Dr. Alexander Hamilton Robert Micklus An Award-Winning Book: Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
	The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615–1655 James R. Perry An Award-Winning Book: Delmarva Prize
	Liberty Men and Great Proprietors The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 Alan Taylor An Award-Winning Book: Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1990)
1989
	The Indians’ New World Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal James H. Merrell An Award-Winning Book: Bancroft Prize (1990) Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians (1990) Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1990)
1986
	A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia Thomas M. Doerflinger An Award-Winning Book: Bancroft Prize (1987) Herbert Feis Award
	Tobacco and Slaves The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 Allan Kulikoff An Award-Winning Book: Francis Butler Simkins Prize John H. Dunning Prize in United States History Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
1985
	The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 John J. McCusker An Award-Winning Book: Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1986)
1984
	A People’s Army Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War Fred Anderson An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award Distinguished Book Award, Society of Colonial Wars
1982
	The Practice of Piety Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
	The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 Rhys Isaac An Award-Winning Book: Pulitzer Prize (1983) National Historical Society Book Prize
1981
	In English Ways The Movement of Societies and the Transferal of English Local Law and Custom to Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century David Grayson Allen An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
	Jonathan Edwards’s Moral Thought and Its British Context Norman Fiering An Award-Winning Book: Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians (1983)
	Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard A Discipline in Transition Norman Fiering An Award-Winning Book: Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians (1983)
1980
	The First American Constitutions Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era Willi Paul Adams An Award-Winning Book: Bicentennial Prize of the American Historical Association (1976)
1979
	A Revolutionary People at War The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 Charles Royster An Award-Winning Book: Commonwealth Club Book Award (1979) John D. Rockefeller III Award Francis Parkman Prize National Historical Society Book Prize Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
1978
	The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870 James H. Kettner An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
	Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York Manorial Society, 1664-1775 Sung Bok Kim An Award-Winning Book: Citation of Honour of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York (1979)
1972
	Sugar and Slaves The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 Richard S. Dunn An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award Walter D. Love Memorial Prize Finalist, National Book Award
1969
	The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 Gordon S. Wood An Award-Winning Book: Bancroft Prize (1970) John H. Dunning Prize in United States History Finalist, National Book Award
1968
	White over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 Winthrop D. Jordan An Award-Winning Book: Francis Parkman Prize Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize Bancroft Prize (1969) National Book Award
	The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts John J. Waters, Jr. An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
1967
	The Democratic Republicans of New York The Origins, 1763-1797 Alfred F. Young An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
1965
	Fisher Ames Federalist and Statesman, 1758-180 Winfred E. A. Bernhard An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
1963
	Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782, by the Marquis de Chastellux Howard C. Rice, Jr. An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award Certificate of Special Merit of the Printing Industries of Metropolitan New York (1964)
1962
	Saints and Sectaries Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony Emery Battis An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
1961
	The Power of the Purse A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790 E. James Ferguson An Award-Winning Book: John H. Dunning Prize in United States History
	Robert Livingston, 1654–1728, and the Politics of Colonial New York Lawrence H. Leder An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award
	The Antifederalists Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 Jackson Turner Main An Award-Winning Book: Jamestown Foundation Award