Frederick Jackson Turner Award


The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.
It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award.
YearWinnerTitle
1959Donald F. WarnerThe Idea of Continuous Union: Agitation for the Annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893.
1960No award given.
1961Robert E. QuirkAn Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Vera Cruz.
1962Donald O. JohnsonThe Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of the American Civil Liberties Union.
1963No award given.
1964No award given.
1965Ronald E. ShawErie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854.
1966James T. PattersonCongressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939.
1967Ross E. PaulsonRadicalism and Reform, 1837-1937.
1968No award given.
1969Ross GregoryWalter Hines Page: Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
1970Robert GriffithThe Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate.
1971John Garry CliffordThe Citizen Soldiers.
1972Edward A. Purcell, Jr.The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value.
1973Mary O. FurnerAdvocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905.
1974Thomas H. BenderToward an Urban Vision .
1975No award given.
1976No award given.
1977Merritt Roe Smith,Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology.
1978Daniel T. RodgersWork Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920.
1979Charles F. Fanning, Jr.Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years.
1980John Mack FaragherWomen and Men on the Overland Trail.
1981William C. WidenorHenry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy.
1982Clayborne CarsonTo Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s.
1983Rosalind RosenbergBeyond Separate Spheres.
1984Steven HahnThe Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 .
1985Barton C. ShawThe Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party.
1985Sean WilentzChants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850.
1986Chester M. MorganRedneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal.
1987Alexander KeyssarOut of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts.
1988David MontejanoAnglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986.
1989Bruce NelsonWorkers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen,and Unionism in the 1930s.
1990James H. MerrellThe Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal .
1991Christopher F. ClarkThe Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860.
1992Ramón A. GutiérrezWhen Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846.
1993Daniel K. RichterThe Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
1994Peter WayCommon Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860.
1995George ChaunceyGay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940.
1996James T. CampbellSongs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa.
1997Glenda Elizabeth GilmoreGender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920,.
1998Neil FoleyWhite Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture,.
1999Amy Dru StanleyFrom Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation.
2000Timothy B. Tyson,
University of Wisconsin-Madison		Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power.
2000Walter Johnson,
New York University		Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
2001Lisa Norling,
University of Minnesota		Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870.
2002Adam Rome,
Pennsylvania State University		The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
2003James F. Brooks,
University of California, Santa Barbara		Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
2004Thomas A. Guglielmo,
University of Notre Dame		White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945.
2005Mae M. Ngai,
University of Chicago		Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
2006Tiya Alicia Miles,
University of Michigan		Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom .
2006 Honorable MentionEiichiro Azuma,
University of Pennsylvania		Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.
2007Ned Blackhawk,
University of Wisconsin, Madison		Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.
2007 Honorable MentionAaron Sachs,
Cornell University		The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism.
2008Charles Postel,
California State University, Sacramento		The Populist Vision.
2009Leslie Brown,
Williams College		Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South.
2010Bethany Moreton,
University of Georgia		To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise.
2011Danielle L. McGuire,
Wayne State University		At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power.
2012David Sehat,
Georgia State University		The Myth of American Religious Freedom.
2012 Honorable MentionJames T. Sparrow,
University of Chicago		Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government.
2013Jonathan Levy,
Princeton University		Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America.
2014Geraldo L. Cadava,
Northwestern University		Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland.
2014 Honorable MentionDawn Bohulano Mabalon,
San Francisco State University		Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California.
2015Allyson Hobbs,
Stanford University		A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.
2015 Honorable MentionJamie Cohen-Cole,
George Washington University		The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature.
2015 Honorable MentionKatherine C. Mooney,
Florida State University		Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack.
2015 Honorable MentionKyle G. Volk,
University of Montana		Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy.
2016Mark G. Hanna,
University of California, San Diego		Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740.
2016 Honorable MentionJoshua L. Reid,
University of Washington		The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs.
2016 Honorable MentionAndrew J. Torget,
University of North Texas		Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.
2017Max Krochmal,
Texas Christian University		Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era.
2018Brian McCammack,
Lake Forest College		Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago.
2018 Honorable MentionCourtney Fullilove,
Wesleyan University		The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture.
2018 Honorable MentionJulilly Kohler-Hausmann,
Cornell University		Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America.
2019Elizabeth Gillespie McRae,
Western Carolina University		Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy.
2019 FinalistJonathan Gienapp,
Stanford University		The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era.
2019 FinalistMonica Muñoz Martinez,
Brown University		The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.
2019 FinalistAna Raquel Minian,
Stanford University		Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration.
2020Vincent DiGirolamo,
Baruch College		Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys.