Recent Awards

Literary journalism on Trial
Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
Kathy Roberts Forde
Winner of the 2009 AEJMC History Division Book Award for the Best Book on Journalism and Mass Communication History.

Winner of the Frank Luther-Mott-KTA Award for the Best Research based book in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Keepers in tradition
Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts
Maggie Holtzberg
Winner of a 2009 New England Museums Association Silver Medal.

Recasting the machine age
Henry Ford's Village Industries
Howard P. Segal
Winner of the 2009 Henry Ford Heritage Association's Book Award.

The American college town
Blake Gumprecht
Winner of the 2009 J. B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers.

A Genius for place
American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
Robin Karson
Winner of the 2009 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Mission 66
Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
Ethan Carr
Winner of the 2009 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Winner of the 2008 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Puerto Rican Poetry
An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
Roberto Márquez
Winner of the 2008 Best Translation Prize of the New England Council of Latin American Studies. The award is given each year for "the best book translated into English."

The Culture and Sport of Skiing
From Antiquity to World War I
E. John B. Allen
Winner of the 2008 Ullr Award from the International Skiing Assocation and selected for the AAUP Book Show as one of the best-designed university press books of the year.

Hungry Hill
A Memoir
Carole O'Malley Gaunt
Winner of the Anne Bancroft Memorial Memoir Award from the Southampton Writers Conference

Books, maps, and politics
A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861
Carl Ostrowski
Winner of the 2007 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award sponsored by The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association

THE NEEDLE'S EYE
Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
Marla R. Miller
Winner of the 2007 Millia Davenport Publication Award sponsored by the Costume Society of America for the best book in the field

The Lowell Experiment
Public History in a Postindustrial City
Cathy Stanton
Winner of the 2007 Book Award of the National Council on Public History

One Shaker life
Isaac Newton Youngs, 1973–1865
Glendyne R. Wergland
Winner of the 2006 Award for Outstanding Publication from the Communal Studies Association. Cited as "an outstanding contribution to both Shaker studies and to the broader field of communal studies."

WHAT A BOOK CAN DO
The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring
Priscilla Coit Murphy
Selected as one of 27 titles in the American Library Association's The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About, 2006

HUERFANO
A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
Roberta Price
Winner of the 2006 Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women

The Contemporary African American Novel
Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Bernard W. Bell
Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the College Language Association

Winner of a 2005 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book

Selected as one of 27 titles in the American Library Association's The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About, 2006

Tropical Fish
Stories out of Entebbe
Doreen Baingana
Winner of the Commonwealth Foundation’s Best First Book Award in the Africa region, 2006

Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award in Short Fiction

Winner of the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize
Two-time Finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2004 and 2005

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