Lawrence W. Levine Award

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

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.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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