Charles S. Sydnor Award
Award Description
The Charles S. Sydnor Award is given in recognition of a distinguished book in southern history published in odd-numbered years and awarded in even-numbered years. It will be awarded at the 2022 meeting in Baltimore, MD for a book published during 2021. Copies should be forwarded to the committee members no later than March 1, 2022.
2022 Award Committee
Matthew Karp
Princeton University, G-27 Dickinson Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1017
Jane Landers
Vanderbilt University
Benson Hall 114
2301 Vanderbilt Place, PMB 351802, Nashville, TN 37235
Past Winners
2020 - Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, W. W. Norton, 2019
2020 - Stephanie Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Yale University Press, 2019
2018 - Julio Capó Jr.
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, University of North Carolina Press, 2017
2016 - Alison Collis Greene
No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Oxford University Press, 2015
2014 - Caroline E. Janney
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, University of North Carolina Press, 2013
2012 - Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford University Press, 2011
2010 - Laura F. Edwards
The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, University of North Carolina Press, 2009
2008 - Juliana Barr
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2007
2006 - W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Harvard University Press, 2005
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
2002 - Jack E. Davis
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
2000 - Claudio Saunt
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816, Cambridge University Press, 1999
1998 - Neil Foley
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, University of California Press, 1997
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
1994 - Michael Honey
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights, University of Illinois Press, 1993
1992 - Charles Royster
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
1990 - Allen Tullos
Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont, University of North Carolina Press, 1989
1988 - Peter Kolchin
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, Harvard University Press, 1987
1986 - James C. (Pete) Daniel
Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880, University of Illinois Press, 1985
1984 - Drew Gilpin Faust
James Henry Hammond and the Old South, A Design for Mastery, Louisiana State University Press, 1982
1982 - Bruce Palmer
Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism, University of North Carolina Press, 1980
1980 - Richard Beale Davis
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763, University of Tennessee Press, 1978
1978 - Thomas C. Holt
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction, University of Illinois Press, 1977
1976 - Edmund S. Morgan
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, W. W. Norton, 1975
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
1972 - Allen W. Trelease
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, Harper & Row, 1971
1970 - Sheldon Hackney
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, Princeton University Press, 1969
1968 - George B. Tindall
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, Louisiana State University Press, 1967
1966 - Willie Lee Rose
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1964
1964 - Albert D. Kirwan
John J. Crittenden: The Struggle for the Union, University of Kentucky Press, 1962
1962 - C. Vann Woodward
The Burden of Southern History, Louisiana State University Press, 1960
1960 - Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South, Louisiana State University Press, 1958
1958 - Arlin Turner
George W. Cable: A Biography, Duke University Press, 1956
1956 - Joseph H. Parks
General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A., Louisiana State University Press, 1954
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