The Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award is given in recognition of a distinguished book in southern history published in even-numbered years and is awarded in odd-numbered years. It will next be awarded at the annual meeting in 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky for a book published during 2008. Entries should be submitted to the committee members listed below before March 1, 2009.

Dr. Jacqueline Jones
Department of History
Lown, 107
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454

Dr. Ted Ownby
Department of History
Barnard Obs 216
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677

The 2007 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award Committee selected as the winner Raymond Arsenault's, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, published by Oxford University Press (2006).