Southern Historical Association

The James A. Rawley Award is awarded to a distinguished book dealing with secession and/or the sectional crisis published over a two-year period. The award will be made at the annual meeting in 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky for a book published in 2007-2008. Copies should be forwarded to the following committee members no later than March 1, 2009.

Dr. Jonathan M. Atkins
Department of History
5010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA 20149

Dr. Gordon B. McKinney, Committee Chair
Department of History
Berea College
Box 1703
Berea, KY 40404

Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin
Department of History
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
100 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250

The 2007 James A. Rawley Award Committee selected as the winner Eric H. Walther's, William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War, published by the University of North Carolina Press (2006).