Sunday, November 14, 2021

2021 Civil War book award winners list

Tom Watson Brown Award:
Thavolia Glymph for The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (UNC Press).

Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History:
Thavolia Glymph for The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (UNC Press).

A.M. Pate Award:
Megan Kate Nelson for The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner).

Albert Castel Book Award:
This is a biennial prize awarded on even-numbered years.

Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize:
H. W. Brands for The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom (Knopf).

Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award:
Stephen Davis for Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (Mercer UP).

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize:
David S. Reynolds for Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Penguin).

Wiley-Silver Prize:
Ariel Ron for Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic (Johns Hopkins UP).

Fletcher Pratt Award:
Stephen Davis for Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (Mercer UP).

Douglas Southall Freeman History Award:
Stephen Davis for Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood (Mercer UP).

OAH Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award:
Thavolia Glymph for The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (UNC Press).

Also, CWBA Book of the Year recognition goes to Lawrence Lee Hewitt for Port Hudson: The Most Significant Battlefield Photographs of the Civil War (UT Press).

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