Prizes
American Catholic Historical Association, 2022 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize.
Meserve, Margaret. Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
American Historical Association, 2022 George Louis Beer Prize for outstanding historical writing on any phase of European international history since 1895.
Greble, Emily. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
American Historical Association, 2022 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for outstanding book in women’s history and/or feminist theory.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
American Historical Association, 2022 Littleton-Griswold Prize for outstanding book on American legal history.
Masur, Kate. Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.
Cleveland Foundation, 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for outstanding work of nonfiction.
Delmont, Matthew. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. New York: Viking, 2022
Columbia University School of Journalism, 2023 Mark Lynton History Prize for outstanding work of history. Cohen, Deborah. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War. New York: Random House, 2022.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for outstanding non-fiction book on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
Harvard University, Shorenstein Center on Media and Public Policy, 2023 Goldsmith Book Prize.
Cohen, Deborah. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War. New York: Random House, 2022.
Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2022 Harriet Tubman Prize for best nonfiction book published in the United States on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic world.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
McGill University, 2022 Cundill History Prize for the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
Organization of American Historians, 2023 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.
Kretz, Dale. Administering Freedom: The State of Empancipation after the Freedmen’s Bureau. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Organization of American Historians, Merle Curti Social History Award for the best book in American social history.
Edwards, Laura F. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
PEN America, 2022 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for distinguished book of nonfiction.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
Phi Beta Kappa, 2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for best scholarly study that contributes to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2022.
University of Virginia, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. 2022 John Nau Book Prize.
Masur, Kate. Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021.
The Arts: History and Criticism
Berlo, Janet Catherine. Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Brittenham, Claudia. Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.
Donoghue, Courtney Brannon. The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023.
Eisman, April, Hedwig Döbele, Silke Wagler, and Angelika Weissbach. Angela Hampel: The Artistic Work. Berlin: Kerber Verlag, 2023.
Eakin, Hugh. Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America. New York: Penguin Random House, 2022.
Homans, Jennifer. Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century. New York: Penguin Random House, 2022.
Macor, Alison. Making the Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic that Inspired a Nation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022.
Rarey, Matthew. Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Rice, Yael. The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
History: Non-U.S.
Ansari, Hassan, and Sabine Schmidtke, ed. Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2022.
Benay, Erin. Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World. Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2022.
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee with David Suisman, eds. Capitalism and the Senses. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Bui, Long T. Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022.
Chowning, Margaret. Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Christensen, Peter H. Precious Metal: German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.
Daut, Marlene L. Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Deutsch, Sandra McGee. Gendering Antifascism: Women’s Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918–1947. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023.
Dunkel, Tom. White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of Germans Who Resisted Hitler. New York: Hachette, 2022.
Ermus, Cindy. The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Haynes, Douglas E. The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India: Advertising and the Making of Middle-Class Conjugality. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Hecht, Gabrielle. Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
Henry, Justin W. Ravana’s Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Novotny, Jamie and Joshua Jeffers. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2023.
Paik, Shailaja. The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022.
Pugach, Sara. African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Robinson, David M. Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique. How to Make a New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonial Mexico City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Sayrami, Musa. The Tarikh-i Hamidi: A Late-Qing Uyghur History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
Schmidtke, Sabine. The Beginnings of Shīʿī Studies in Germany: Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugenio Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2023.
Stromquist, Shelton. Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism. New York: Verso Books, 2023.
Tusan, Michelle. The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Uchida, Jun. Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Van Duzer, Chet. Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, Influence. Cham: Springer, 2019.
White, Ashli. Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
History: Science and Technology
Farmer, Jared. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. New York: Basic Books, 2022.
Hoag, Colin. The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Kokas, Aynne. Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Prasad, Amit. Science Studies Meets Colonialism. Cambridge: Polity, 2022.
Walker, Rachel E. Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Zwigenberg, Ran. Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
History: U.S.
Bailey, Beth. An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Barbas, Samantha. Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times vs. Sullivan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.
Bennett, M. Todd. Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
Canaday, Margot. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Cohen, Deborah. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War. New York: Random House, 2022.
Delmont, Matthew F. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. New York: Viking, 2022.
Dennis, Matthew. American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023.
Edwards, Laura. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Kemper, Steve. Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor. New York: Mariner Books, 2022.
Linn, Brian. Real Soldiering: The U.S. Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815–1980. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023.
Malherek, Joseph. Free-Market Socialists: European Ḗmigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022.
Martin, Lerone A. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Meyer, Michael. Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity. New York: Mariner Books, 2022.
Oehlerts, Donald E., and James L. Hansen. Guide to Wisconsin Newspapers, 1833–2004. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 2022.
Olden, Danielle R. Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Ris, Ethan W. Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Runstedtler, Theresa. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA. New York: Hachette, 2023.
Shetterly, Aran Robert. Morningside: A Survivor’s Story of the Greensboro Massacre. New York: Amistad, 2023.
Soll, Jacob. Free Market: The History of an Idea. New York: Basic Books, 2022.
Thaggert, Miriam. Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Language, Literature, and Literary Theory
Bankert, Dabney. Philology in Turbulent Times: Joseph Bosworth, His Dictionary, and the Recovery of Old English. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2023.
Carmody, Todd. Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Cohen, Matt. The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Fleissner, Jennifer L. Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Fridland, Valerie. Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. New York: Penguin Random House, 2023.
Garcia, Humberto. England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Gordon, Marsha. Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Herring, Scott. Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
Kalliney, Peter. The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
Looser, Devoney. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Lutz, Deborah. Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Navakas, Michele Curie. Coral Lives: Literature, Labor, and the Making of America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Runia, Robin. Maria Edgeworth and Abolition: Critiquing Character. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Silva Gruesz, Kirsten. Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2022.
Solomon, Deborah. The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England: Rival Media in the Process of Poetic Invention. Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2022.
West III, James L. W. Business Is Good: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional Writer. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
Wolfe, Jesse. Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Music
Clague, Mark. O Say Can You Hear? A Cultural Biography of “The Star Spangled Banner.” New York: W. W. Norton, 2022.
Fumerton, Patricia, Pavel Kosek, and Marie Hanzelková, ed. Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c. 1600–1900. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Kapurch, Katie and Jon Marc Smith. Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
Philosophy
Bradatan, Costica. In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.
Religion
Graubart, Karen B. Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Harrison, Anna. Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022.
Mallampalli, Chandra. South Asia’s Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Prothero, Stephen. God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time. New York: HarperCollins, 2023.
Scharbach Wollenberg, Rebecca. The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Social Sciences
Molina, Natalia. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. University of California Press, 2022.
Rijke-Epstein, Tasha. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.
