James A. Rawley Award
Award Description
The James A. Rawley Award is awarded to a distinguished book dealing with secession and/or the sectional crisis published over a two-year period. The next award will be given in 2025 in St. Pete Beach for books published in 2023 or 2024. Copies should be mailed to the following committee members no later than March 1, 2025.
2025 Award Committee
Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University Dept. of History, Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306
Bruce Baker, Newcastle University West Wing Paxton House Paxton, Berwickshire TD15 1SZ United Kingdom
Salena Sanderfer Doss, Western Kentucky University 1906 College Heights Blvd., #21086 Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101
Past Winners
2023 - John Suval Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy, Oxford University Press
2021 - Michael Schoeppner Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America, Cambridge University Press
2019 - R. J. M. Blackett The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery, Cambridge University Press, 2018
2017 - Manisha Sinha The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, Yale University Press, 2016
2015 - Michael Woods Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States, Cambridge University Press, 2014
2013 - Andre Fleche The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict, University of North Carolina Press, 2012
2011 - Stanley Harrold Border War: Fighting over Slavery Before the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 2010
2009 - John Ashworth Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861, Cambridge University Press, 2008
2007 - Eric H. Walter William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 2006
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