Award Winners and Nominees
Desegregating Dixie
Winner of the 2020 American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time ...
When They Blew the Levee
Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the ...
The Blue Sky Boys
WINNER OF THE WOODY GUTHRIE BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE 2019 AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE CATEGORY OF BEST HISTORICAL RESEARCH IN RECORDED COUNTRY OR FOLK MUSIC FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS ...
New Orleans Remix
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz – Certificate of Merit (2018)
Since the 1990s, New Orleans has been experiencing its greatest musical ...
Fragile Grounds
Recipient of a 2018 Preserve Louisiana Award and a 2018 Coastal Stewardship Award
Fragile Grounds compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond. ...
Sanctuaries of Segregation
Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists ...
Freedom Rider Diary
Winner of the 2014 Eudora Welty Prize
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days ...
Right to Revolt
Winner of the 2016 Eudora Welty Prize
On January 10, 1966, Klansmen murdered civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer in Forrest County, Mississippi. Despite the FBI's growing conflict against the Klan, recent ...
Under Surge, Under Siege
Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize
Winner of the Mississippi Library Association’s 2011 Nonfiction Award
Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, ...
Southern Ladies and Suffragists
Winner of the 2015 Eudora Welty Prize
Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition ...