Joan E. Cashin, Chair
Department of History
106 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Avenue
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Richard D. Starnes
College of Arts & Sciences
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723
Christina Snyder
Department of History
Indiana
University
Bloomington, IN 47405
The 2012 Charles S. Sydnor Award Committee selected as the
winner Tomiko Brown-Nagin's Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, published by Oxford University Press, 2011.
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
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
2012 - Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford University Press, 2011
