Ex Libris 2021

PRIZES

American Historical Association. 2020 James A. Rawley Prize for outstanding work on the Atlantic World prior to 1900.
White, Sophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Cundhill History Prize for best book of history written in English.
Townsend, Camilla. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

French Colonial Historical Society. 2020 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.
White, Sophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
White, Sophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Hagley Museum. 2021 Hagley Prize for best book in business history.
Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2020.

Heather Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association. 2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for best book in Louisiana history.
White, Sophie. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Modern Language Association. 2020 Prize for best first book.
Spires, Derrick R. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography.
Stanley, Amy. Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. New York: Scribner, 2020.

Organization of American Historians. 2021 Lawrence W. Levine Award for best work of cultural history.
Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2020.

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography for excellence in the art of biography.
Stanley, Amy. Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. New York: Scribners, 2020.

Pulitzer Prize in History.
Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2020.

Art History

Low, Denise and Ramon Powers. Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Ruud, Brandon and Corey Piper. Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920. Produced by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Classics

Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda with Pablo Alvarez. A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 1. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Shear, Julia L. Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

History: Non-U.S.

Ben-Ur, Aviva. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Buchwald, Diana Kormos, et al., eds.; Jennifer Nollar James, et al., trans. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16. The Berlin Years: Writing and Correspondence, June 1927 – May 1929. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Burkhardt, Frederick, James A. Secord, et al. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 28: 1880. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Farquhar, Judith and Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Frost, Dennis J. More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Moore Jr., John K. Mulatto–Outlaw–Pilgrim–Priest: The Legal Case of José Soller, Accused of Impersonating a Pastor and Other Crimes in Seventeenth-Century Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Vergara, Ángela. Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

History: U.S.

Basbanes, Nicholas A. Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020.

Boggs, Colleen Glenney. Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863–1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Ferraro, William M. and Jeffrey L. Zvengrowski, eds. The Papers of George Washington. Revolutionary War Series, Volume 28: 28 August–27 October 1780. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Garbooshian-Huggins, Adrina, ed. The Papers of George Washington. Presidential Series, Volume 21: 22 September 179–3 March 1797. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Ghazvinian, John. America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Hughes, Amy E. and Naomi J. Stubbs, eds. A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Kaminski, John P., et al. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights: Volume XXXVII, Bill of Rights I: Origins. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2020.

Lange, Allison K. Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Laracey, Mel. Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Luskey, Brian P. Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Nichter, Luke A. The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and the Making of the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Nimura, Janice P. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.

Roll, Jarod. Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Stagg, J. C., et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison. Presidential Series, Volume 11, 1816–1817. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Stagg, J. C., et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison. Secretary of State Series, Volume 12, 1 June 1806–31 October 1806. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Literature, Language, and Linguistics

Dyck, Andrew R. and Alan Cottrell, eds. and trans. Angelo Poliziano. Miscellanies, Volume I. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Janko, Richard, ed. Philodemus On Poems, Book Two. With the Fragments of Heracleodorus and Pausimachus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Koretsky, Deanna P. Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.

Johnson, Jeffrey S., ed. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. The Divine Poems, Volume 7, Part 2. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021.

Kelley, Philip, Edward Hagan, and Linda M. Lewis, eds. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Volume 27: October 1859–May 1860. Winfield, Kans.: Wedgestone Press, 2020.

Outka, Elizabeth. Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Qian Nanxiu, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang, eds. Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2020.

Qian Nanxiu, Richard Smith, and Bowei Zhang, eds. Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2020.

Rana, Swati. Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Sobol, Valeria. Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Music History and Criticism

Bailey, Candace. Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.

DeLapp-Birkett, Jennifer and Aaron Sherber, eds. Music of the United States of America, Volume 31: Appalachian Spring. Original Ballet Version. Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2020.

Holzaepfel, John, ed. Music of the United States of America, Volume 30B. Solo for Piano by John Cage, Second Realization. Part 2: Music Edition. Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions.

Holzaepfel, John, ed. Music of the United States of America, Volume 30A. Solo for Piano by John Cage, Second Realization. Part 1: Essay and Critical Commentary. Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions. 2020.

Stimeling, Travis D. Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Philosophy and Religion

Alhassen, Leyla Ozgur. Qur’ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021.

Gottlieb, Paula. Aristotle on Thought and Feeling. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Schneider, Susan. Artificial You: AI and the Future of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Politics, Jurisprudence, and Social Sciences

Crawford, Sharika D. The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Hendren, Sara. What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.

McNally, Michael D. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom beyond the First Amendment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Murphy, Laura T. Freedomville: The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt. New York: Columbia Global Reports, 2021.