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[[File:Pirate_Nests.jpg|thumbnail|200px250px|left|<i>Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740</i>]]Every year, the Organization of American Historians awards prizes for the best books in United States history for that year within different history historical disciplines. These books are evaluated by extremely qualified historians and acknowledge who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016.
===Frederick Jackson Turner Award===
'''INTELLECTUAL HISTORY'''
Daniel Immerwahr, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674289943/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674289943&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=11e3d7c3c7fd5b2f787fb7be0f06d970 Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development]</i> (Harvard University Press)
===Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners===
The Darlene Clark Hine Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book in African American women's and gender history.
Talitha L. LeFlouria, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469630001/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469630001&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=42943609d96b33198ab5e013f877d653 Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Premilla Nadasen, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807033197/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807033197&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9762ed8e632d306be2d317ab386a1317 Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement]</i> (Beacon Press)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Sherie M. Randolph, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469623919/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469623919&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=79bdcf185128b8c5a3a01a34fbbd62ca Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)
===Richard W. Leopold Prize===
Martha Hodes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030019580X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=030019580X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=019908cd2b54b299a93e4eb385ec7ed8 Mourning Lincoln]</i> (Yale University Press).
HONORABLE MENTION:
Gregory P. Downs, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674743989/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674743989&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=fa398787e59e6daf62f3e9e40e4a3a9f After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War]</i> (Harvard University Press).
===James A. Rawley Prize===
The Rawley Prize recognizes the best new book addressing the history of race relations in the United States.
[[File:Brethren_by_nature.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|<i>Brethren by Nature</i> by Margaret Ellen Newell]]
Margaret Ellen Newell, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501705733/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1501705733&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8113f9e7208418389a0d7bf2426459a3 Brethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery]</i> (Cornell University Press)
===David Montgomery Award===
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252080661/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252080661&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1273cecbaaabe512cd3add9e19bef70c Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie]</i> (University of Illinois Press)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lou Martin, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252081021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252081021&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0feb492ff6bbc1696ce55a9a15f7ff74 Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia]</i> (University of Illinois Press).
===Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History===
Cassandra Alexis Good, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199376174/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199376174&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4f0a5b7c640d04798c9025f42ec50acb Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic] </i> (Oxford University Press).<div class="portal" style="width:85%;">==Related DailyHistory.org Articles==*[[2017 Organization of American Historians Book Awards]]*[[What Were the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of "Stonewall" Jackson?]]*[[Why Was the Battle of Antietam a Pivotal event in the American Civil War?]]*[[Gilded Age/Progressive Era History Top Ten Booklist]]*[[Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War?]]*[[The Best Historians and Books According to James McPherson]]</div>[[Category:Booklists]] [[Category:United States History]] [[Category:OAH Awards]][[Category:History Booklists]]
