Award-Winning Publications

Unless otherwise indicated, all Institute books are published and distributed by The University of North Carolina Press. For ordering information, call 1-800-848-6224 or fax 1-800-272-6817. Please note that these books can be purchased only through UNC Press and not through the Institute.


  • Masterless Mistresses
    The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834

         by Emily Clark

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    • Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association (2007)


  • Moral Capital
    Foundations of British Abolitionism

    by Christopher Leslie Brown

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    • Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (2007)
    • James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History – AHA (2006)
    • Morris D. Forkosch Prize – AHA (2006)
    • Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2006)
  • American Curiosity
    Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World

    by Susan Scott Parrish

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    • Jamestown Prize (2005)
    • Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (2006)

  • Sex among the Rabble
    An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830

    by Clare A. Lyons

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    • James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early Republic (2007)


  • The Geographic Revolution in Early America
    Maps, Literacy, and National Identity

    by Martin Brückner

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    • Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2006-2007)

  • By Birth or Consent
    Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority

         by Holly Brewer  

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    • James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association (2006)
    • Cromwell Prize, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, American Society for Legal History (2006)
    • Order of the Coif Book Award, Order of the Coif (2008)
  • Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis
    Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850

         by Steven W. Hackel

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    • James Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, SHEAR (2006)
    • Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Best Book Award, 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

         by Bernard L. Herman

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    • Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum (2006)