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Every year, the Organization of American Historians awards prizes for the best books in United States history for that year within different historical disciplines. These books are evaluated by extremely qualified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016.
===Frederick Jackson Turner Award===
The Turner Award is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.
Allyson Hobbs, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674659929/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674659929&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4688ee27c5618051e7d1a846aaa9cdf1 A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life]</i> (Harvard University Press)
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Jamie Cohen-Cole, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022636190X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=022636190X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=5b6110f0c079d38e0cc4af66a0f4a011 The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature]</i> (The University of Chicago Press)
Katherine C. Mooney, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067428142X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=067428142X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=09d7f79de1cbd88441d16398e286a079 Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack]</i>0 (Harvard University Press)
Kyle G. Volk, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190609494/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0190609494&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ee491aaa3cfe0fa59e54486a281dd459 Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy]</i> (Oxford University Press)
===Merle Curti Social History Award===
The Curti Award is given to the best new books in the fields of American social history and intellectual history.[[File:Corazon_DixieRobert_Love.jpg|thumbnail|200px250px|left|<i>Corazón de DixieRobert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston</i> by Julie WeiseCornelia Dayton and Sharon Salinger]]Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812245938/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812245938&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=355b6a2c154436196cfbc3ce327411f9 Robert Love’s Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston]</i> (University of Pennsylvania Press)
===Merle Curti Intellectual History Award===
The Curti Award is given to the best new books in the fields of American intellectual history.
Kyle G. Volk, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190609494/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=Richard W. Leopold Prize0190609494&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=The Leopold Prize is unique because it recognizes the contributions of U.S. government ee491aaa3cfe0fa59e54486a281dd459 Moral Minorities and federal contract historians. The award is given to the author or editor of the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, historical activities Making of the federal government, documentary histories, or biography.American Democracy]</i> (Oxford University Press)
===Ray Billington Prize===
The Billington Prize is awarded for the best book on the history of native and/or settler peoples in frontier, border, and borderland zones of intercultural contact.
Jared Farmer, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393078027/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393078027&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=b52276127fb11bd2a493e0c4a5617c30 Trees in Paradise: A California History]</i> (W.W. Norton & Company)
===Avery O. Craven Award===
the Era of Reconstruction. Military history books are excluded from this prize.
Edward E. Baptist, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465049664/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465049664&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7cda63e4188f77e4d54970cc780b8142 The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism]</i> (Basic Books) HONORABLE MENTION
===James A. Rawley Prize===
The Rawley Prize recognizes the best new book addressing the history of race relations in the United States.
Daniel Berger, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469629798/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469629798&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0d2c07c9696d3e66cbdc5c71c0bcc86d Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era]</i> (The University of North Carolina Press)
===Ellis W. Hawley Prize===
the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
Alan McPherson, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190498765/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0190498765&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=67b5c661ceafcd7304830f34cad6f6ce The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations]</i> (Oxford University Press)
===Liberty Legacy Foundation Award===
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The Liberty Legacy Award is specifically for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle.
N. D. B. Connolly, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637842X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=022637842X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=7fc0703f9550ae983b98fad46f08a2ad A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida]</i> (The University of Chicago Press)
===Lawrence W. Levine Award===
The Levine Award focuses on the best book in American cultural history.
Allyson Hobbs, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674659929/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674659929&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4688ee27c5618051e7d1a846aaa9cdf1 A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life]</i> (Harvard University Press)
===David Montgomery Award===
The Montgomery Award is given to the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.
Chantal Norrgard, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZVF5G62/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ZVF5G62&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c3db37f31c8282e48f15bb56711579bd Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood]</i> (The University of North Carolina Press)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Brian Rouleau, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R6W348U/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00R6W348U&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0445e9878b8397a11be7454575066831 With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire]</i> (Cornell University Press)
===Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History===
The Nickless Prize is awarded to the most original book in during any period of American women’s or gender history.
Lisa Marguerite Tetrault, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469633507/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469633507&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ec3fa857e27eda6fe9c930828ef9edb4 The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898]</i> (The University of North Carolina Press} ===Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners===Karsonya Wise Whitehead, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611173523/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1611173523&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0277275c4033a99cb5734a0fef7b7088 Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis]</i> (The University of South Carolina Press)
===Willi Paul Adams Award===
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==Related DailyHistory.org Articles==
*[[2017 Organization of American Historians Book Awards]]
