The Lawrence W. Levine Award is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book in American cultural history.http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/lawrence-w-levine-award/ Last viewed September 9, 2015. The award is named for Professor Lawrence W. Levine, President of the OAH 1992–1993, who wrote extensively in the field. A committee of 5 members of the OAH, chosen annually by the President, makes the award. The winner receives $1000.
The Awards Source: Organization of American Historians
Year Winner Affiliation Title2008Daniel R. MandellTruman State UniversityTribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-18802009Peggy PascoeUniversity of OregonWhat Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America2010Kathleen M. BrownUniversity of PennsylvaniaFoul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America2011Heather Murrayhttp://www.research.uottawa.ca/news-details_2280.html Last viewed on November 28, 2011.University of OttawaNot in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America2012 Michael WillrichBrandeis UniversityPox: An American History 2013 Adria L. ImadaUniversity of California, San DiegoAloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire2014 Shawn Michelle SmithSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen2015Allyson HobbsStanford UniversityA Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life2016Benjamin LookerSaint Louis UniversityA Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America2017John W. TroutmanUniversity of Louisiana, Lafayette & National Museum of American HistoryKīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music2018Cary CordovaUniversity of Texas, AustinThe Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco2019Monica Muñoz MartinezBrown UniversityThe Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas2020Erik SeemanState University of New York at BuffaloSpeaking with the Dead in Early America 2021Marcia ChatelainGeorgetown UniversityFranchise: The Golden Arches in Black America2022Tiya Alicia MilesHarvard UniversityAll That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake2023James ZarsadiazUniversity of San FranciscoResisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.2024Rob GoldbergGermantown Friends SchoolRadical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America2025Lindsay GossUniversity of MelbourneF*ck the Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War
See also
List of history awards
References