The Lawrence W. Levine Award is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book in American cultural history.[1] The award is named for Professor Lawrence W. Levine, President of the OAH 1992–1993, who wrote extensively in the field. A committee of 5 members of the OAH, chosen annually by the President, makes the award. The winner receives $1000.

The Awards

Source: Organization of American Historians

Year Winner Affiliation Title
2008 Daniel R. Mandell[2] Truman State University Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
2009 Peggy Pascoe University of Oregon What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
2010 Kathleen M. Brown[3] University of Pennsylvania Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
2011 Heather Murray[4] University of Ottawa Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
2012 Michael Willrich Brandeis University Pox: An American History
2013 Adria L. Imada University of California, San Diego Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
2014 Shawn Michelle Smith School of the Art Institute of Chicago At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen
2015 Allyson Hobbs Stanford University A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
2016 Benjamin Looker Saint Louis University A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
2017 John W. Troutman University of Louisiana, Lafayette & National Museum of American History Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
2018 Cary Cordova University of Texas, Austin The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
2019 Monica Muñoz Martinez Brown University The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
2020 Erik Seeman State University of New York at Buffalo Speaking with the Dead in Early America
2021 Marcia Chatelain Georgetown University Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
2022 Tiya Alicia Miles Harvard University All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
2023 James Zarsadiaz University of San Francisco Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/lawrence-w-levine-award/ Last viewed September 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Daniel Mandell | Truman Faculty Website".
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ http://www.research.uottawa.ca/news-details_2280.html Last viewed on November 28, 2011.
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