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47-601: The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti (1897–1996). A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author(s). Committee members represent

94-863: A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (University of North Carolina Press) Marcus Rediker Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge University Press) 1989 Edmund S. Morgan Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (W.W. Norton) 1990 James H. Merrell The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through

141-486: A steward of history, it seeks to ensure that the Court is presented with accurate portrayals of American history. The most recently submitted brief was in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization . Previous briefs include those submitted for Perry v. Hollingsworth, U.S. v. Windsor, Obergefell v. Hodges , and In re: National Prescription Opiate Litigation . Advocating for inclusive history education

188-490: A way of bringing the expertise of members to a broader audience.  Each year a new roster historians are appointed to a three-year term. In addition to traditional, in-person events, the program began offering the option of virtual lectures in 2020. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review began in 1914 and was published quarterly under that name until 1962 when it was changed to the Journal of American History . The JAH

235-497: A wide range of scholars. Panels and papers are chosen by an external committee. The committee typically represents a large variety of institutions and disciplines and is formed by members from the host institution. Graduate students, junior, mid-career and senior scholars are all invited to submit proposals via a Call for Papers; all levels of career achievement are likewise represented on the final program. The OI also typically offers one topically themed conference each year, usually in

282-657: Is a 501(c)(3) non-profit incorporated in Nebraska in 1907. It is governed by an Executive Board, which is composed of OAH officers, former presidents who continue to serve for two years immediately succeeding their presidency, and nine elected members. The OAH Executive Committee is composed of the officers of the OAH and the immediate past president. Both the Executive Director and the Executive Editor serve on

329-409: Is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication and is the journal of record for the field of U.S. history. In addition to scholarly articles, it regularly publishes book reviews, movie reviews, public history reviews, digital humanities reviews, and, each March, a "Textbook and Teaching" section that is freely available on their publisher's, Oxford University Press, website. Additionally, one article each issue

376-583: Is an independent research organization located in Williamsburg, Virginia, sponsored by William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg. Founded in 1943, the OI supports the scholars and scholarship of vast early America—a term used to describe the capacious histories of North America and related geographies, including foundational histories of indigenous peoples, the scale and impact of transatlantic slavery, and multidimensional European colonization and settlement, from

423-604: Is another key component of the OAH's advocacy efforts. It is part of the Learn from History Coalition, which seeks to educate parents, teachers, and community members on how to support inclusive history in schools. And, in 2021 it began producing a public webinar series, The Future of the Past, that looks at the diverse history behind contemporary events, such as the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The Organization of American Historians

470-490: Is designated "Editor's Choice" and is opened to the public. A nine-person editorial board guides the review and selection of articles for publication. The following is a list of Awards and Prizes given by Organization of American Historians. [REDACTED] Media related to Organization of American Historians at Wikimedia Commons Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ( OI )

517-646: Is determined by a program committee and the then president elect. The conference (previously the annual meeting) has been held every year since the organization began, with the exception of 1945 due to war time restrictions. In 1994, the Organization began working with the National Park Service to produce a wide range of projects, including scholars' visits to national park sites, administrative histories, historic resource studies, national landmarks theme studies, peer review of interpretive material, curriculum development, and conferences and seminars. Since

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564-428: Is open to all who wish to support its mission. In 2010, its individual membership was approximately 8,000 and its institutional membership approximately 1,250. For its 2009 fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, the organization's operating budget was approximately $ 2.9 million. In its 2018 annual report, membership in the organization "stabilized" with approximately 7,000 members. In fiscal year 2019 (ending June 30, 2019),

611-659: The Spanish-American borderlands to British America and the Caribbean and extends to Europe and West Africa. Although grounded in history, it welcomes works from all disciplines (for example, literature, law, political science, anthropology, archaeology, material culture, cultural studies) bearing on the early American period. Currently in its Third Series, the Quarterly is published in January, April, July, and October. The journal originated in 1892, making it one of

658-639: The 1450s to the 1820s. William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation founded the Institute of Early American History and Culture in 1943. In 1996, the name Omohundro was added to the Institute's name in recognition of a private donation from the late Mr. and Mrs. Malvern H. Omohundro, Jr. The Institute publishes a select number of books each year on topics pertaining to the histories and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to 1820, including related developments in

705-541: The Age of Emancipation (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2008 Marcus Rediker The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking) 2009 Vincent Brown The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press) Pekka Hämäläinen The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press) 2010 Laura Dassow Walls The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and

752-738: The Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Louisiana State University Press) Alan Taylor The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 (W.W. Norton) 2015 Kyle G. Volk Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford University Press) Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2016 Daniel Immerwahr Thinking Small: The United States and

799-840: The American South (Yale University Press) Katrina Forrester In the Shadows of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Princeton University Press) 2021 Garrett Felber Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (University of North Carolina Press) Johanna Fernández The Young Lords: A Radical History (University of North Carolina Press) 2022 Emily Klancher Merchant Building

846-753: The British Isles, Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean. Since the first book appeared in print in 1947 , the OI has published over 247 titles, which have won a total of 208 awards. The OI partners with the University of North Carolina Press in publishing its titles, and UNC Press also distributes the OI's books. The William and Mary Quarterly is an academic journal with a focus on early American history and culture. It ranges chronologically from Old World-New World contacts to about 1820. Geographically, it focuses on North America from New France and

893-655: The City of the Straits (The New Press) 2019 Sarah E. Igo The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press) Amy Murrell Taylor Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (The University of North Carolina Press) 2020 Stephanie Jones-Rogers They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in

940-1156: The Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press) Cindy Hahamovitch No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press) 2013 Angus Burgin The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Great Depression (Harvard University Press) Brett Rushforth Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press) 2014 W. Caleb McDaniel The Problem of Democracy in

987-741: The Era of Removal ( Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture /University of North Carolina Press) 1991 David D. Hall Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (Knopf) John L. Brooke The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713–1861 (Cambridge University Press) 1992 David R. Roediger The Wages of Whiteness: Race and

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1034-765: The Great Depression to the Cold War (Temple University Press) 1986 Kerby A. Miller Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford University Press) 1987 James T. Kloppenberg Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870–1920 (Oxford University Press) 1988 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall , James L. Leloudis , Robert R. Korstad , Mary Murphy , Lu Ann Jones and Christopher B. Daly Like

1081-687: The Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth- Century United States (Oxford University Press) See also [ edit ] List of history awards References [ edit ] ^ "Merle Curti Award" . The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes . The Organization of American Historians . Retrieved 2013-11-03 . ^ "OAH Merle Curti Award | Book awards | LibraryThing" . ^ "Merle Curti Award Winners" . Archived from

1128-944: The Lure of Community Development (Harvard University Press) Julie M. Weise Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 (University of North Carolina Press) 2017 Susanna L. Blumenthal Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (Harvard University Press) Wendy Warren New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America (Liveright/W.W. Norton) 2018 Brittney C. Cooper Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press) Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in

1175-1171: The Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/The University of North Carolina Press) 2001 Kimberly K. Smith The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics (University Press of Kansas) 2002 David W. Blight Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) 2003 Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (Knopf) 2004 Colin G. Calloway One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press) George M. Marsden Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press) Steven Hahn A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in

1222-644: The Making of the American Working Class (Verso) 1993 Robert B. Westbrook John Dewey and American Democracy (Cornell University Press) 1994 W. Fitzhugh Brundage Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (University of Illinois Press) 1995 Wilfred M. McClay The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (University of North Carolina Press) 1996 George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and

1269-967: The Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 (Basic Books) 1997 Lance Banning The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Cornell University Press) Ann Douglas Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 1998 Robert A. Orsi Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes (Yale University Press) 1999 Rogers M. Smith Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press) 2000 Woody Holton Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and

1316-576: The National Historical Publications and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, etc. The Organization often submits amicus curiae briefs for matters being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court as well as district courts. In doing so it aims to present the court with an accurate account of the history of the cases being litigated. The OAH does not advocate for a particular legal standard rather, as

1363-556: The OAH regularly advocates for the study, teaching, and presentation of American history, the equitable treatment of all those who work in the field, and public engagement with history. The OAH is a member of the National Humanities Alliance and National Coalition for History and regularly participates in advocacy efforts related to federal funding for the National Archives and Records Administration,

1410-850: The Population Bomb (Oxford University Press) Samantha Seeley Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Omohundro Institute and the University of North Carolina Press) 2023 Kathryn Gin Lum Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press) Laura F. Edwards Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and

1457-550: The Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) 2005 Steven Mintz Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Michael O'Brien Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860 (University of North Carolina Press) 2006 Elizabeth Borgwardt A New Deal for

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1504-784: The Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press) Seth Rockman Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2011 Jefferson Cowie Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (The New Press) Stephanie McCurry Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press) 2012 Susan J. Pearson The Rights of

1551-618: The Slave Voyages Project. All OI fellowship applicants are evaluated by outside committees of scholars who volunteer their time and expertise. Opportunities are available for predoctoral through postdoctoral students, early career scholars, and senior career scholars. Please check the OI website for details. Most OI events are open to the public; costs to the participant vary. The OI offers an annual conference in June each year. The location varies each year in order to accommodate

1598-579: The United States American history awards 1977 establishments in the United States Merle Curti Award winners Organization of American Historians The organization's mission is to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourage wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history. Membership

1645-481: The University of Southern California conducts a workshop designed to identify and encourage new trends in our understanding of the history and culture of early North America. The participants are primarily mature scholars working on second or subsequent book projects; they share their work in progress with the aim of deepening and enriching their perspectives, their approaches, and ultimately the final products of their research. The OI's colloquium meets four or five times

1692-651: The World: America's Vision for Human Rights (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press) 2007 Scott Reynolds Nelson Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend (Oxford University Press) Moon-Ho Jung Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in

1739-587: The board and executive committee as non-voting members. In addition to the Executive Board, there are forty-seven service and award committees made up of approximately 350 member volunteers who serve two or three year terms. The OAH Conference on American History brings together nearly 2,000 historians and features between 700 and 900 speakers participating in an average of 150 paper sessions, workshops, and events on all facets of American history over four days each spring. The central theme for each conference

1786-410: The date of the first cooperative agreement between the OAH and NPS, more than 100 reports have been produced for NPS units around the country. The OAH serves as the program manager, overseeing the historians working on the various projects and ensuring their timely completion. The Distinguished Lectureship Program (DLP), the OAH speakers bureau, was established in 1980 by then president Gerda Lerner as

1833-404: The desire to use the association's prestige to fight for liberal reforms, to change the association's name to represent a national scope, to democratize its oligarchical structure, and to take a firm stand against racial discrimination in terms of hotels and meeting cities. The reformers were successful and the Mississippi Valley Historical Review was renamed the Journal of American History and

1880-1755: The entire spectrum of American history and serve a one-year term. Beginning with the awards of 2004, the Committee may select 1 book "winner" in American intellectual history , 1 book "winner" in American social history , and may list other "finalists" in each field. "Winners" split a $ 1000 cash award. Although not explicitly stated, "American" refers to the "United States of America" alone. Year Winner Title 1978 Henry F. May The Enlightenment in America (Oxford University Press) 1979 Garry Wills Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Doubleday) 1980 Paul E. Johnson A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837 (Hill and Wang) Thomas Dublin Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826–1860 (Columbia University Press) 1981 James T. Schleifer The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America (University of North Carolina Press) 1982 George M. Fredrickson White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History (Oxford University Press) 1983 Norman Fiering Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press) and Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press) 1984 Dino Cinel From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience (Stanford University Press) 1985 Leo P. Ribuffo The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from

1927-399: The fall. The location varies. An organizing theme or topic is proposed by a group of scholars who then form a program committee and issue a Call for Papers. The number of papers and panels offered is typically smaller than at the annual conference, likewise the overall number of participants. Each May, the William and Mary Quarterly in conjunction with the Early Modern Studies Institute at

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1974-479: The oldest scholarly journals in the United States. In addition to peer-reviewed digital humanities projects such as Colonial Virginia Portraits, the OI also publishes the OI Reader , which features a digital edition of the William and Mary Quarterly as well as additional digital projects, and Commonplace.online in conjunction with the American Antiquarian Society. The OI also supports other digital humanities work in early American history including Enslaved.org and

2021-447: The organization's budget was $ 3.66 million. OAH formed as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska , of seven historical societies of the Mississippi Valley on October 17 and 18, 1907. The organization, devoted to studying the Mississippi Valley region, began a tradition of holding an annual meeting each year, and began quarterly publication in 1914 of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review . As

2068-435: The organization, correspondingly, was renamed the Organization of American Historians the following year. Indiana University was selected as home for the editorial offices of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review predecessor to the Journal of American History in 1963. Prior to relocating to Indiana, the editorial offices were located at Tulane University. The organization moved its business offices to Indiana in

2115-800: The original on 2009-03-29 . Retrieved 2009-12-28 . ^ "Award and Prize Committees" . www.oah.org . Archived from the original on 2010-11-06. v t e Prizes and Awards of the Organization of American Historians Erik Barnouw Award Merle Curti Award Frederick Jackson Turner Award Ray Allen Billington Prize Richard W. Leopold Prize Ellis W. Hawley Prize James A. Rawley Prize Darlene Clark Hine Award John D'Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merle_Curti_Award&oldid=1181008537 " Categories : American literary awards Awards established in 1977 History books about

2162-428: The scholarly emphasis of the organization and its journal developed and spread over time, its initial emphasis on the Mississippi Valley came under sharp challenge from members who wanted a better title and a wider scope. Ray Billington, OAH president in 1962–63, detailed four issues that arose and caused bitter quarreling during the discussion about the proposed name change in a 1978 Journal of American History essay:

2209-446: The summer of 1970 from its home on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah . The organization's headquarters are in Bloomington, Indiana on the campus of Indiana University in the historic Raintree House . The OAH was admitted to the American Council of Learned Societies in 1971. It is a foundational partner of the National Coalition for History and the National Humanities Alliance. Guided by its mission,

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