Bennett H. Wall Award
Award Description
The Bennett H. Wall Award was established in 2000 to honor the long-term service of Bennett Wall, who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the SHA for over thirty-three years (1952-1985), and as SHA President in 1988. In keeping with Professor Wall's own scholarly contribution to southern history, the Wall Prize will be awarded to the best book published in southern business or economic history over a two-year period. The next award will be made at the annual meeting in 2022 in Baltimore, MD, for a book published in 2022 or 2023. Entries should be submitted to the committee members before March 1, 2024.
2024 Award Committee
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chair 419 Hamilton Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama ten Hoor Hall 202, Box 870212 The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212
Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University Coor Hall 4572, 975 S. Myrtle Avenue, Box 874302 Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287
2026 Award Committee
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University, Chair Brandon Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alison Collis Greene, Emory University
Past Winners
2022 - Timothy Minchin America’s Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States, University of Georgia Press, 2021
2020 - Shennette Garrett-Scott Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S Finance Before the New Deal, Columbia University Press, 2019
2018 - Keri Leigh Merritt Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, Cambridge University Press, 2017
2016 - N. D. B. Connolly A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, University of Chicago Press, 2014
2014 - Kari Frederickson Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South, University of Georgia Press, 2013
2012 - Rebecca Sharpless Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens, 1865-1960, University of North Carolina Press, 2010
2010 - Brian Schoen The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
2008 - Jack Temple Kirby Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, University of North Carolina Press, 2006
2006 - Steven Deyle Carry Me Back: Domestic Slave Trade in American Life, Oxford University Press, 2005
2004 - Jonathan D. Martin Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, Harvard University Press, 2004
2002 - Curtis J. Evans The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
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