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Awards 2001–2005

 

The Theater Is in the Street
Politics and Public Performance in Sixties America
Bradford W. Martin
Winner of the New England American Studies Association 2005 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize

Sports
The First Five Millennia
Allen Guttmann
Winner of the 2005 Book Award of the North American Society for Sport History

Disciplining Gender
Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture
John M. Sloop
Winner of the 2005 National Communication Association’s Winans/Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address

The Anxieties of Affluence
Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979
Daniel Horowitz
Winner of the 2005 Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award for the best book in the humanities published by an American university press

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Political Waters
The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story
Eric Jay Dolin
Selected as one of 27 titles in the American Library Association's The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About, 2005

Swinging the Machine
Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
Joel Dinerstein
Winner of the 2004 Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award for the best book in the humanities published by an American university press

Captors and Captives
The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield
Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney
Winner of the 2004 New England Historical Association Book Award

Winner of a 2004 Award of Meritfrom the American Association for State and Local History

A Sense of Self
The Work of Affirmation
Thomas J. Cottle
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Against the Odds
Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Benjamin P. Bowser and Louis Kushnick, with Paul Grant
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Rainbow Quest
The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970
Ronald D. Cohen
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Book Jacket: "Lillie Devereux Blake" by G. Farrell

Lillie Devereux Blake
Retracing a Life Erased
Grace Farrell
Finalist for a 2003 Connecticut Book Award

Passing for White
Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920
James M. O’Toole
An alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
Winner of the 2003 New England Historical Association Book Award

Book Jacket: "Dance and Disappear" by L. Kasischke

Dance and Disappear
Laura Kasischke
Finalist for the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
of the Academy of American Poets

Book Jacket: "Growing Up Abolitionist" by H. H. Alonso

Growing Up Abolitionist
The Story of the Garrison Children
Harriet Hyman Alonso
Winner of the 2003 Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations

Book Jacket: "A Modern Arcadia" by S. L. Klaus

A Modern Arcadia
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
Susan L. Klaus
Winner of the 2003 Historic Preservation Book Prize

Winner of the New York Society Library's 2002 New York City Book Award for Landscape History

Book Jacket: "A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw" by C. Hodgen

A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw
Christie Hodgen
Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction

One of three finalists for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

Book Jacket: White Robe's Dilemma"

White Robe's Dilemma
Tribal History in American Literature
Neil Schmitz
Selected as one of the 32 titles in the American Library Association's The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About, 2002

Book Jacket: "Song of the Cicadas"

Song of the Cicadas
Mông-Lan
Winner, 2002 Great Lakes College Association's
New Writers Award for Poetry

Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's
Norma Farber First Book Award
, 2002

Book Jacket: "Reading on the Middle Border"

Reading on the Middle Border
The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900
Christine Pawley
Cowinner of the 2002 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award
of the State Historical Society of Iowa

Book Jacket: "Josh White"

Josh White
Society Blues
Elijah Wald
Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award for
Performing Arts, 2001

Selected for Association of American University Presses
Book Show, 2001

 

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