The Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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2018     Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago by Brian McCammack; honorable mention: The profit of the earth : the glob​al ​seeds of American agriculture by Courtney Fullilove; honorable mention: Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
2017     Blue Texas : the making of a multiracial Democratic coalition in the Civil Rights Era by Max Krochmal
2016     Pirate nests and the rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna
2015     A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life by Allyson Hobbs; honorable mention: The open mind : Cold War politics and the sciences of human nature by Jamie Cohen-Cole; Race horse men : how slavery and freedom were made at the racetrack by Katherine C. Mooney (honorable mention); Moral minorities and the making of American democracy by Kyle G. Volk (honorable mention)
2014     Standing on common ground : the making of a Sunbelt borderland by Geraldo L. Cadava; Little Manila is in the heart : the making of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton, California by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (honorable mention)
2013     Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America by Jonathan Levy
2012     The myth of American religious freedom by David Sehat; The warfare state : World War II Americans and the age of big government by James T. Sparrow (honorable mention)
2011     At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance–a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire; The color of America has changed : how racial diversity shaped civil rights reform in California, 1941-1978 by Mark Brilliant (honorable mention); Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire by Robert Perkinson; Slavery in Indian country : the changing face of captivity in early America by Christina Snyder (honorable mention)
2010    
To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise by Bethany Moreton; Alien neighbors, foreign friends : Asian Americans, housing, and the transformation of urban California by Charlotte Brooks (honorable mention); The oyster question : scientists, watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 by Christine Keiner (honorable mention); A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia by Lisa Levenstein (honorable mention)
2009     Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South by Leslie Brown
2008     The populist vision by Charles Postel

2007
     Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West by Ned Blackhawk; The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism by Aaron Sachs (honorable mention)
2006
     Ties that bind : the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom by Tiya Alicia Miles; Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America by Eiichiro Azuma (honorable mention)
2005     Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2004     White on arrival :  Italians, race, color, and power in Chicago, 1890-1945 by Thomas A. Guglielmo
2003     Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands by James F. Brooks
2002     The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism by Adam Rome
2001     Captain Ahab had a wife : New England women & the whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling
2000     Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the roots of Black power by Timothy B. Tyson; Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market by Walter Johnson
1999     From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley
1998     The white scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture by Neil Foley
1997     Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
1996     Songs of Zion : the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell
1995     Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
1994     Common labour : workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860 by Peter Way
1993     The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization by Daniel K. Richter
1992     When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Rámon A. Gutiérrez
1991     The roots of rural capitalism : western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 by Christopher F. Clark
1990     The Indians' new world : Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the era of removal by James H. Merrell
1989     Workers on the waterfront : seamen, longshoremen, and unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson
1988     Anglos and Mexicans in the making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano
1987     Out of work : the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts by Alexander Keyssar
1986     Redneck liberal : Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal by Chester M. Morgan
1985     The wool-hat boys : Georgia's Populist Party by Barton C. Shaw; Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz
1984     The roots of southern populism : yeoman farmers and the transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 by Steven Hahn
1983     Beyond separate spheres : the intellectual roots of modern feminism by Rosalind Rosenberg
1982     In struggle : SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson
1981     Henry Cabot Lodge and the search for an American foreign policy by William C. Widenor
1980     Women and men on the overland trail by John Mack Farragher
1979     Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley : the Chicago years by Charles F. Fanning, Jr.
1978     The work ethic in industrial America, 1850-1920 by Daniel T. Rodgers
1977     Harpers Ferry armory and the new technology : the challenge of change by Merritt Roe Smith
1976     No award given
1975     No award given
1974     Toward an urban vision : ideas and institutions in nineteenth-century America by Thomas H. Bender
1973     Advocacy & objectivity : a crisis in the professionalization of American social science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner
1972     The crisis of democratic theory; scientific naturalism & the problem of value by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
1971     The citizen soldiers; the Plattsburg training camp movement, 1913-1920 by John Garry Clifford
1970     The politics of fear : Joseph McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith (2d ed., 1987, here)
1969     Walter Hines Page; ambassador to the Court of St. James's by Ross Gregory
1968     No award given
1967     Radicalism & reform; the Vrooman family and American social thought, 1837-1937 by Ross E. Paulson
1966     Congressional conservatism and the New Deal; the growth of the conservative coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 by James T. Patterson
1965     Erie water west; a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 by Ronald E. Shaw
1964     No award given
1963     No award given
1962     The challenge to American freedoms; World War I and the rise of the American Civil Liberties Union by Donald O. Johnson
1961     The Mexican revolution, 1914-1915; the Convention of Aguascalientes by Robert E. Quirk
1960     No award given
1959
     The idea of continental union; agitation for the annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893 by Donald F. Warner