Friday, November 17, 2023

2023 Civil War book award winners list

Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize:
Jeffry Wert for The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (UNC) [site review].

Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award:
Jeffry Wert for The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (UNC) [site review].

A.M. Pate Award:
William Shea for Union General: Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West (Potomac) [site review].

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

Wiley-Silver Prize:
David Thomson for Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (UNC).

Fletcher Pratt Award:
Victor Vignola for Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862 (SB) [site review].

Tom Watson Brown Award:
R. Isabela Morales for Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom (Oxford).

Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History:
Elizabeth Leonard for Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life (UNC).

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize:
Co-Winners: Jonathan White for A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman & Littlefield) and John Meacham for And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House).

Douglas Southall Freeman History Award:
Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick for The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War (UTenn).

OAH Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award:
Dale Kretz for Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau (CNA).

The Edwin C. Bearss Book Award:
Hampton Newsome for Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Kansas) [site review].