For Educators

Award-Winning Books

The University of North Carolina Press publishes many books that win prestigious awards every year.
Here's our most recent list.

Congratulations to all our award-winning authors!

	Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands Juliana Barr 2008 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2007 William P. Clements Prize for the Best Nonfiction Book on Southwestern American, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies 2007 Liz Carpenter Award, Texas State Historical Association ISBN 978-0-8078-3082-6 $59.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-5790-8 $19.95 Paper Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
	The View from the Masthead Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives Hester Blum 2008 John Gardner Maritime Research Award, G. W. Blunt White Library ISBN 978-0-8078-3169-4 $59.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-5855-4 $22.95 Paper
	Battling the Plantation Mentality Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green 2008 Philip Taft Labor History Award, ILR School of Cornell University and Labor and Working Class History Association 2008 Finalist, Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians ISBN 978-0-8078-3106-9 $65.00 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-5802-8 $24.95 Paper The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
	Many Minds, One Heart SNCC's Dream for a New America Wesley C. Hogan 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council 2009 Scott Bills Memorial Prize, Peace History Society ISBN 978-0-8078-3074-1 $34.95 Cloth
	Joining Places Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South Anthony E. Kaye Finalist, 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition ISBN 978-0-8078-3103-8 $34.95 Cloth The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
	Our Daily Bread Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West Geoff Mann 2008 Michael Harrington Best Book Award, New Political Science Section, American Political Science Association ISBN 978-0-8078-3134-2 $59.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-5831-8 $19.95 Paper Cultural Studies of the United States
	Lincoln and the Decision for War The Northern Response to Secession Russell McClintock Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize, Abraham Lincoln Institute and Abraham Lincoln Association ISBN 978-0-8078-3188-5 $35.00 Cloth Civil War America
	The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston Maurie D. McInnis 2007 Fred Kniffen Book Award, Pioneer America Society ISBN 978-0-8078-2951-6 $37.50 Cloth
	Gay Artists in Modern American Culture An Imagined Conspiracy Michael S. Sherry 2007 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction, Lambda Literary Foundation ISBN 978-0-8078-3121-2 $29.95 Cloth
	War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 John Lawrence Tone 2008 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History ISBN 978-0-8078-3006-2 $35.00 Cloth Envisioning Cuba
	Contested Waters A Social History of Swimming Pools in America Jeff Wiltse A 2008 Best of the Best from University Presses selection, Association of American University Presses 2007 William F. "Buck" Dawson Author's Award, International Swimming Hall of Fame ISBN 978-0-8078-3100-7 $29.95 Cloth