Dr. Jeanette Keith (committee chair)
Department of History
Old Science Hall
Bloomsburg University
400 E. Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301
Dr. J. Mills Thornton
206 Seminole Drive
Montgomery, AL 36117
Dr. Altina Waller
Department of History
University of Connecticut at Storrs
241 Glenbrook Rd.
Storrs, CT 06269-2103
The 2008 Charles S. Sydnor Award Committee selected as the
winner Juliana Barr's Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas
Borderlands,
published by University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Past Winners
1956 – Joseph H. Parks
General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A., Louisiana State University Press, 1954
1958 – Arlin Turner
George W. Cable: A Biography, Duke University Press, 1956
1960 – Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South, Louisiana State University Press, 1958
1962 – C. Vann Woodward
The Burden of Southern History, Louisiana State University Press, 1960
1964 – Albert D. Kirwan
John J. Crittenden: The Struggle for the Union, University of Kentucky Press, 1962
1966 – Willie Lee Rose
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1964
1968 – George B. Tindall
The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1945, Louisiana State University Press, 1967
1970 – Sheldon Hackney
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, Princeton University Press, 1969
1972 – Allen W. Trelease
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction,
Harper & Row, 1971
1974 – Thomas B. Alexander
Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: A Study of the Influence of Member
Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861–1865,
Vanderbilt University Press, 1972
1976 – Edmund S. Morgan
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia,
W. W. Norton, 1975
1978 – Thomas C. Holt
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During
Reconstruction, University of Illinois Press, 1977
1980 – Richard Beale Davis
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763, University of Tennessee Press, 1978
1982 – Bruce Palmer
Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism,
University of North Carolina Press, 1980
1984 – Drew Gilpin Faust
James Henry Hammond and the Old South, A Design for Mastery, Louisiana State University Press, 1982
1986 – James C. (Pete) Daniel
Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures
Since 1880, University of Illinois Press, 1985
1988 – Peter Kolchin
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, Harvard University Press,
1987
1990 – Allen Tullos
Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina
Piedmont, University of North Carolina Press, 1989
1992 – Charles Royster
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the
Americans, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
1994 – Michael Honey
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights, University of Illinois Press, 1993
1996 – Stephanie McCurry
Masters of Small Worlds: Yeomen Households, Gender Relations, and the
Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country,
Oxford University Press, 1995
1998 – Neil Foley
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture,
University of California Press, 1997
2000 – Claudio Saunt
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek
Indians, 1733–1816, Cambridge University Press, 1999
2002 – Jack E. Davis
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, Louisiana State
University Press, 2001
2004 – Robert Korstad
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the
Mid-Twentieth Century South, University of North Carolina Press, 2003
2006 – W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Harvard University Press, 2005
2008 – Juliana Barr
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas
Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2007
