Book awards: Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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Titles	Order
An Affair of Honor by Robert E. Quirk	1961
Erie Water West by Ronald E. Shaw	1965
Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal by James T. Patterson	1966
Radicalism & Reform by Ross E. Paulson	1967
Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s by Ross Gregory	1969
The Politics of Fear by Robert Griffith	1970
The Crisis of Democratic Theory by Edward A. Purcell Jr.	1972
Advocacy & Objectivity by Mary O. Furner	1973
Toward an Urban Vision by Thomas Bender	1974
Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology by Merritt Roe Smith	1977
Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 by Daniel T. Rodgers	1978
Finley Peter Dunne & Mr. Dooley by Charles Fanning	1979
Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher	1980
Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy by William C. Widenor	1981
In Struggle by Clayborne Carson	1982
Beyond Separate Spheres by Rosalind Rosenberg	1983
The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 by Steven Hahn	1984
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz	1985
The Wool-Hat Boys by Barton C. Shaw	1985
Redneck Liberal by Chester M. Morgan	1986
Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts by Alexander Keyssar	1987
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano	1988
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson	1989
The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell	1990
The Roots of Rural Capitalism by Christopher Clark	1991
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away by Ramon Gutierrez	1992
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization by Daniel K. Richter	1993
Common Labour by Peter Way	1994
Gay New York by George Chauncey	1995
Songs of Zion by James T. Campbell	1996
Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore	1997
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture by Neil Foley	1998
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley	1999
Radio Free Dixie by Timothy B. Tyson	2000
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson	2000
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling	2001
The Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome	2002
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks	2003
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945 by Thomas A. Guglielmo	2004
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai	2005
Between Two Empires by Eiichiro Azuma	honorable mention, 2006
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles	2006
The Humboldt Current : Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism by Aaron Sachs	honorable mention, 2007
Violence Over The Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk	2007
The Populist Vision by Charles Postel	2008
Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South by Leslie Brown	2009
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton	2010

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Awarded by the Organization of American Historians
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first given in 1959 as the Prize Studies Award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, has been given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history and also to the press that submits and publishes it.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award website
No awards were made in 1960, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1975 and 1976
Two awards were made in 1985 and 2000
Honorable mentions were also made in 2006 and 2007