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Recent Awards
	Mission 66 Modernism and the National Park Dilemma Ethan Carr Winner of the 2008 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
	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
	The Theater Is in the Street Politics and Public Performance in Sixties America Bradford W. Martin Winner of the New England American Studies Association 2005 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
	Sports The First Five Millennia Allen Guttmann Winner of the 2005 Book Award of the North American Society for Sport History
	Disciplining Gender Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture John M. Sloop Winner of the 2005 National Communication Association’s Winans/Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
	The Anxieties of Affluence Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979 Daniel Horowitz Winner of the 2005 Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award for the best book in the humanities published by an American university press A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
	Political Waters The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor—A Unique Environmental Success Story Eric Jay Dolin 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, 2005
	Swinging the Machine Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars Joel Dinerstein Winner of the 2004 Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award for the best book in the humanities published by an American university press
	Captors and Captives The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney Winner of the 2004 New England Historical Association Book Award Winner of a 2004 Award of Meritfrom the American Association for State and Local History
	A Sense of Self The Work of Affirmation Thomas J. Cottle A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
	Against the Odds Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century Edited by Benjamin P. Bowser and Louis Kushnick, with Paul Grant A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
	Rainbow Quest The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970 Ronald D. Cohen A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
	Lillie Devereux Blake Retracing a Life Erased Grace Farrell Finalist for a 2003 Connecticut Book Award
	Passing for White Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920 James M. O’Toole An alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club Winner of the 2003 New England Historical Association Book Award
	Dance and Disappear Laura Kasischke Finalist for the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets
	Growing Up Abolitionist The Story of the Garrison Children Harriet Hyman Alonso Winner of the 2003 Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations
	A Modern Arcadia Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Susan L. Klaus Winner of the 2003 Historic Preservation Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's 2002 New York City Book Award for Landscape History
	A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw Christie Hodgen Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction One of three finalists for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
	White Robe's Dilemma Tribal History in American Literature Neil Schmitz Selected as one of the 32 titles in the American Library Association's The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About, 2002
	Song of the Cicadas Mông-Lan Winner, 2002 Great Lakes College Association's New Writers Award for Poetry Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award, 2002
	Reading on the Middle Border The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900 Christine Pawley Cowinner of the 2002 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award of the State Historical Society of Iowa
	Josh White Society Blues Elijah Wald Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award for Performing Arts, 2001 Selected for Association of American University Presses Book Show, 2001

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