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 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland for a book published in 2009-2010. Copies should be forwarded to the following committee members no later than March 1, 2011.

Dr. Lynda L. Crist
Jefferson Davis Papers-MS 43
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Dr. William W. Freehling, Committee Chair
2730 Country Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22901-8988

Dr. James Oakes
Department of History
Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10016-4309

The 2009 James A. Rawley Award Committee selected as the winner John Ashworth's, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861, published by the Cambridge University Press (2008).

Past Winners

2007 – Eric H. Walter
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 2006