2020 Civil War book award winners list

• Tom Watson Brown Award:
Thomas J. Brown for Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America (UNC Press).

• Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History:
Joseph P. Reidy for Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery (UNC Press).

• A.M. Pate Award:
Christopher M. Rein for The Second Colorado Cavalry: A Civil War Regiment on the Great Plains (OU Press).

• Albert Castel Book Award:
Carl Guarneri for Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War (UP of Kansas).

• Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize:
Donald L. Miller for Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster).

• Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award:
Hampton Newsome for The Fight for the Old North State: The Civil War in North Carolina, January-May 1864 (UP of Kansas).

• Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize:
Elizabeth R. Varon for Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford UP).

• Wiley-Silver Prize:
Christopher R. Mortenson for Politician in Uniform: General Lew Wallace and the Civil War (OU Press).

• Fletcher Pratt Award:
Stephen Davis for Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer UP).

• Douglas Southall Freeman History Award:
Christian B. Keller for The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy (Pegasus).

• American Civil War Museum awards:
No 2020 award(s). The museum is "re-imagining its annual awards for scholarship about the Civil War." Presumably, that means their nearly five-decade old Jefferson Davis Award is no more.

• OAH Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award:
W. Caleb McDaniel for Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America (Oxford UP).

Also, CWBA Book of the Year recognition goes to Zachary Stuart Garrison for German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830–1877 (SIU Press).