The Francis
B. Simkins Award
The Francis B. Simkins Award is
given for recognition of the best first book by an author in
the field of southern history over a two-year period. The award
is sponsored jointly with Longwood College and awarded in odd-numbered
years. The winner will be selected from books published during
2009 and 2010 and will be given at the 2011 annual meeting in
Baltimore, Maryland. Copies for consideration should be forwarded no later
than March 1, 2011 to the following committee
members.
Dr. Edward E. Baptist
Department of History
McGraw Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4601
Dr. Paul F. Paskoff
Department of History
Himes Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3601
Dr. Tom E. Terrill (committee chair)
115 Saluda Ave.
Columbia, SC 29205
(University of South Carolina, Emeritus)
The 2009 Francis B. Simkins Award Winners
Co-Winners:
Susan Youngblood Ashmore won for her book Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights
Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972, published by the University of Georgia Press, 2008.
Edward Bartlett Rugemer won for his book Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the
American Civil War, published by Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Past Winners
1977 – Virginia Spencer Carr
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1975
1979 – Dena J. Epstein
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War, University of Illinois Press, 1977
1981 – Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign
Against Lynching, Columbia University Press, 1979
1983 – Daniel J. Singal
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919–1945,
University of North Carolina Press, 1982
1985 – Michael Wayne
The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880,
Louisiana State University Press, 1983
1987 – Allan Kulikoff
Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the
Chesapeake, 1680–1800, University of North Carolina Press, 1986
1989 – Lacy K. Ford, Jr.
Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860,
Oxford University Press, 1988
1991 – Robin D. G. Kelley (co-winner)
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression,
University of North Carolina Press, 1990
Rachel N. Klein (co-winner)
Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South
Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808, University of North Carolina Press, 1990
1993 – William Cohen
At Freedom's Edge: Black Mobility and the Southern White Quest for Racial Control, 1861–1915, Louisiana State University Press, 1991
1995 – Judith Kelleher Schafer
Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Louisiana State
University Press, 1994
1997 – Stephanie McCurry
Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the
Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country, Oxford University
Press, 1995
1999 – Glenn T. Eskew
But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle,
University of North Carolina Press, 1997
2001 – Walter Johnson (co-winner)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Harvard University Press,
1999
Jane Landers (co-winner)
Black Society in Spanish Florida, University of Illinois Press, 1999
2003 – Brian Kelly
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1980–1921, University of Illinois
Press, 2001
2005– Kirsten E. Wood
Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution
through the Civil War, University of North Carolina Press, 2004
2007 – Kevin M. Kruse
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, Princeton University
Press, 2005
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