Awards in your library

Summary: 41 Awards.

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (1976)
• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (1992)
• Having our say : the Delany sisters' first 100 years by Sarah Louise Delany (1994)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• John Stuart and the Southern colonial frontier; a study of Indian relations, war, trade, and land problems in the Southe by John Richard Alden (1945)
• Colonists from Scotland: emigration to North America, 1707-1783 by Ian Charles Cargill Graham (1955)
• Like a Family : The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Jacquelyn D.; Leloudis Hall, James L.; Korstad, Robert; Murphy, Mary; Jones, Lu (1988)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis B. Fradin (2003)

Bancarella

• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (1978)

Bancroft Prize

• White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (1969)
• Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present by Jacqueline Jones (1986)
• The Indians' new world : Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the era of removal by James Hart Merrell (1990)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (1991)

Edgar Award

• Dead and gone : classic crimes of North Carolina by Manly Wade Wellman (Fact Crime, 1956)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• Army of the heartland; the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly (1971)
• The march to the sea and beyond : Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (1985)
• Confederate Goliath : the battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg (1991)

Founder's Award

• The Encyclopedia of Southern history by David C. Roller (1979)

Francis Parkman Prize

• White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (1969)
• Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1997)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens by Lawrence E. Babits (honorable mention, 1999)
• The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis B. Fradin (special recognition for juvenile literature, 2003)

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• Congressional conservatism and the New Deal; the growth of the conservative coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 by James T. Patterson (1966)
• The Indians' new world : Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the era of removal by James Hart Merrell (1990)
• Songs of Zion : the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa 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)

Golden Kite Award

• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction, 1991)

Herbert Feis Award

• Learning to win : sports, education, and social change in twentieth-century North Carolina by Pamela Grundy (2002)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (1992)

James A. Rawley Prize

• Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1997)
• Contempt and pity : social policy and the image of the damaged Black psyche, 1880-1996 by Daryl Michael Scott (1998)

Jefferson Cup

• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (1992)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Autumn of glory; the Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 by Thomas Lawrence Connelly (1971)
• The march to the sea and beyond : Sherman's troops in the Savannah and Carolinas campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (1985)
• William Woods Holden : firebrand of North Carolina politics by William C. Harris (1987)
• Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (1996)
• Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2007)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff (1987)

Justin Winsor Prize

• Cities in the wilderness; the first century of urban life in America, 1625-1742 by Carl Bridenbaugh (1937)

Lambda Literary Award

• Memoirs of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest (Editor's Choice, 1994)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Memoirs of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest (Lesbian Biography/Autobiography, 1994)

Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize

• Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1993)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

• The dark frigate; wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailo by Charles Boardman Hawes (1962)

Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

• Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad (2004)

Lillian Smith Award

• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (1977)
• Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom by Heather Andrea Williams (2006)

Lincoln Prize

• Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2008)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (77)

National Book Award

• White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (History or Biography, 1969)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (General Nonfiction, 1976)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (General Nonfiction, 1988)

NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

• The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis B. Fradin (2003)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (1976)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1988)

New York Times bestseller

• The great rehearsal; the story of the making and ratifying of the Constitution of the United States by Carl Van Doren (General, 1948)
• Mississippi: the closed society by James W. Silver (General, 1964)
• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (General, 1976)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (Nonfiction, 1988)

Newbery Honor

• The Wright Brothers : how they invented the airplane by Russell Freedman (1992)

Newbery Medal

• The dark frigate; wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailo by Charles Boardman Hawes (1924)

OAH Merle Curti Award

• Like a Family : The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Jacquelyn D.; Leloudis Hall, James L.; Korstad, Robert; Murphy, Mary; Jones, Lu (1988)
• The Indians' new world : Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the era of removal by James Hart Merrell (1990)

Pulitzer Prize

• John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (Southern Classics Series) by Margaret L. Coit (Biography or Autobiography, 1951)
• The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac (History, 1983)
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (History, 1989)
• Roots (Dell Book) by Alex Haley (Special Citation, 1977)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present by Jacqueline Jones (History, 1986)

Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

• Civilities and civil rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black struggle for freedom by William Henry Chafe (Winner, 1981)

Society of Military History - Distinguished Book Award

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson (1989)

Taft Award

• Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present by Jacqueline Jones (1985)
• Like a Family : The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Jacquelyn D.; Leloudis Hall, James L.; Korstad, Robert; Murphy, Mary; Jones, Lu (1987)
• Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad (2004)