ORGANIZATION of AMERICAN HISTORIANS Business Meeting

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS

2012

Business Meeting Awards Ceremony & Presidential Address

SATURDAY, AP RIL 21, 2012 BALLROOM A, FRONTIER A IRLINES C ENTER M ILWAUKEE, WI SCONSIN Schedule of Events

3:30 PM 2012 OAH BUSINESS MEETING

4:00 PM PRESENTATION OF OAH AWARDS AND PRIZES OAH Awards and Prizes Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award 7 Frederick Jackson Turner Award 8 Merle Curti Award 9 James A. Rawley Prize 10 Richard W. Leopold Prize 10 Avery O. Craven Award 11 Ellis W. Hawley Prize 12 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award 13 Lawrence W. Levine Award 14 Darlene Clark Hine Award 14 Lerner-Scott Prize 15 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award 16 Binkley-Stephenson Award 17 David Thelen Award 17 Huggins-Quarles Award 18 Tachau Teacher of the Year Award 18 Erik Barnouw Award 19 OAH Fellowships and Grants OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residencies 20 Germany Residency Program 20 OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants 21

4:45 PM PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 23

5:30 PM PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION T he ﬁnal conference reception will honor outgoing OAH President Alice Kessler-Harris. The reception will be held in the Wright Ballroom of the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. T he 2012 OAH Presidential Reception is sponsored by the Division of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, the History Department at Columbia University, and Oxford University Press.

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2012 OAH BUSINESS MEETING Agenda I. Call to Order/Approval of Minutes from 2011 Meeting

II. Report of the OAH President, Alice Kessler-Harris

III. Report of the OAH Treasurer, Jay S. Goodgold

IV. Report of the OAH Executive Director, Katherine M. Finley

V. Report of the OAH Nominating Board, Lynn Dumenil, Chair

VI. Report of the Executive Editor, Journal of American History, Edward T. Linenthal

VII. New Business

VIII. Welcome Incoming OAH President and Adjournment

Please silence your cell phones and mobile devices during the awards ceremony and presidential address.

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The OAH Annual Meeting was called to order at 3:30 PM by President David A. Hollinger. I. Report of the OAH President, David A. Hollinger President Hollinger noted that the OAH was saddened this past year by the passing of Treasurer Robert Griffith. He also noted that the OAH’s thoughts are with the members in Japan who have been the victims of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Hollinger noted that a letter will be sent to all OAH members in Japan expressing our concern. Hollinger discussed the 2012 meeting in Wisconsin and noted that the meeting there will take place as planned even though the state has passed legislation severely limiting collective bargaining. There will be a concerted effort to use the meeting as a “teachable moment” and have papers and presentations focusing on labor history. There is an ambitious set of papers and a full program for this meeting. The Executive Board, in cooperation with JAH Executive Editor Ed Linenthal, will convene an online interchange about collective bargaining and labor unions and how that connects with OAH’s contracts with conference hotels. Hollinger reported that the administrative affairs of the OAH are in much better shape. He also noted that Al Camarillo led a task force to study the OAH Magazine of History, and the recommendations of that task force were approved by the board. A task force chaired by OAH Executive Board Member Ramón Gutiérrez is studying the possible formation of a gay lesbian transsexual standing committee, and that task force will report on its findings in the fall. II. Report of the OAH Interim Treasurer, Jay S. Goodgold Interim Treasurer Jay Goodgold noted that as the latter quarter of fiscal year 2011 is approaching, the OAH continues to show improvement in its financial condition and is expecting a small operating surplus off a revenue base of $2,759,055. Internal manage- ment of the organization has improved, and a more realistic cost allocation methodology has been employed to allow the staff and Executive Board to better gauge the expenses and revenues of OAH programs. The cash liquidity of the OAH also continues to improve. Because no distributions were taken this past year from endowment funds, the OAH’s assets have grown to $1,809,000 as of January 31, 2011. The assets are still below the peak level of $2,002,776 before the financial crisis; however, the organization has made considerable progress in recouping its assets. Goodgold then discussed the 2012 operating budget. He noted that the OAH Executive Board had passed a budget for 2011–2012 that projects a small surplus of $1,000 and is con- tinuing to review all revenue and expenses. Funds have been allocated to market the 2011 conference. He also noted that the OAH is projecting $57,000 in nonrestricted donations for 2012. The coming year will be the first year that the OAH will conduct only one fund- raising appeal to members, and an increased effort is being made to secure higher levels of giving from those who can.

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Goodgold added that OAH funds are invested with the Indiana University Foundation in a broad array of investment vehicles. The historically low interest rates today make it very difficult to earn a steady income stream from investments. Finally, the interim treasurer noted that the OAH relies heavily on membership dues, and this reliance on dues in a free digital age is one of the great challenges facing the OAH as well as many other nonprofit organizations. Therefore, the OAH will focus on attracting new and retaining current members as well as looking for alternative ways to create new sources of revenue without changing the mission of the OAH. III. Report of the OAH Executive Director, Katherine M. Finley Executive Director Katherine Finley noted that since last year, the staff reorganization has been completed, membership numbers have stabilized, the organization is in the process of designing a new database, the organization finished the fiscal year 2009–2010 with a surplus, and the OAH has begun working on enhancing membership benefits, marketing membership, and enhancing the programs and outreach of the organization. The membership in the OAH is approximately 8,000, with 8,309 members at the end of 10February 28). Over the past year, the OAH has restructured and simplified its dues and has moved to an annual dues billing system. It also has developed new membership benefits and is in the process of marketing memberships to new audiences. The OAH is in the process of developing a new online database that will combine the many databases at the OAH and allow members to update their information online. The OAH instituted this year an automated database which saved countless hours of staff time and increased the number of those voting in the OAH election. Because of this new system and the OAH’s efforts to publicize the election among members, the OAH had the largest number of members voting in over a decade (1,718 or 21.8% of the membership voted in the election). Below is a list of the slate elected for this year: OA H PRESIDENT: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University OA H PRESIDENT-ELECT: Al Camarillo, Stanford University OA H VICE PRESIDENT: Alan M. Kraut, American University oah executive Board: Michele Mitchell, New York University; Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University; Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware OA H NOMINATING BOARD: David Waldstreicher, Temple University; Linda Gordon, New York University; Bruce A. Ragsdale, Federal Judicial History Office Finances also stabilized during the past year, and the OAH had an operating surplus of $66,773. It was noted that for the first time, the OAH has committed funds to market the organization and its programs and services. Aside from its completely redesigned Web site, the OAH this past year instituted a monthly electronic newsletter for members, and at the meeting in Houston the board approved the production of a quarterly, 4–8 page newsletter for members that will include more in-depth information on OAH programs. The OAH is also making efforts to reach out to other history and education-related

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organizations and to renew and strengthen relationships with the History Channel and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The OAH also has worked this past year with the National History Coalition to preserve the Teaching American History Grants. Both the OAH Magazine of History and the Journal of American History are published by Oxford University Press. Finley reported that so far the transition has been smooth, and the distribution and marketing of these publications should be enhanced because of Oxford’s large marketing and distribution network. Finley reported that the total attendance for the Houston meeting was approximately 1,300 but that the program was strong. Finley concluded by noting that the OAH faces a number of challenges but also many opportunities. She added that 2010–2011 was a good year for the OAH but hopes 2011–2012 will be an even better year. IV. R eport of the OAH Nominating Board, Katherine M. Finley (on behalf of the OAH Nominating Board) Rosemary Kolks Ennis, Chair of the OAH Nominating Board, reported that the Nomi- nating Board had met and has chosen Patricia N. Limerick, professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as Vice President (to begin her term after the OAH Annual Meeting in April 2012). The OAH Nominating Board is completing the slate for the open OAH Executive Board and Nominating Board seats and will submit their completed report soon. V. R eport of the Executive Editor, Journal of American History, Edward T. Linenthal Executive Editor Ed Linenthal reported that the transition of both the Journal of American History and the OAH Magazine of History to Oxford University Press has been a fairly smooth one. He observed that one of the great benefits of the OAH’s publication relationship with Oxford is that for the first time, both publications will be marketed internationally. Linenthal discussed the upcoming issues of the Magazine including the April issue focusing on the Civil War (in recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War). He also noted that the Magazine will have a special issue devoted to the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Linenthal also noted that upcoming issues of the Journal will have state-of-the-field essays on conservatism, sports history, and environmental history. The June 2012 issue of the Journal will focus on the oil industry and be a special, larger issue. He thanked the entire OAH staff for their work to make the organization better over the past year. The meeting adjourned at 4:05 PM with David Hollinger turning the meeting over to incoming President Alice Kessler-Harris.

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The Organization of American Historians sponsors annual awards and prizes given in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the ﬁeld of American history. Please join us in congratulating the following 2012 OAH award and prize winners:

Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award for an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: PE TE D ANIEL, IN DEPENDENT SCHO LAR, CH A I R ; DO RIS D W YER, WEST ERN NEVA DA COLLEG E ; RA MÓN A . GUTIÉRREZ, UNIVERSI TY OF C HICAGO ; A N D MA RY KE LLEY, UNIVERSI TY OF M I C H I G A N. This year, the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians bestows its Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award on Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. One of our foremost historians, Ira Berlin has reframed and reinterpreted the history of slavery in North America. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, and its companion volume, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, chart not only slavery’s regional diversity and its transformation over three centuries but also the sustained resistance of enslaved and free African Americans and the crucial role they played in undermining the system. Awarded the Bancroft, the Beveridge, the Rudwick, the Owsley, and the Frederick Douglass Prizes, these magisterial volumes have changed fundamentally the way we conceptualize slavery and its impact. The Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which Berlin founded and directed for ﬁfteen years, and its multivolume Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, have made available a previously unknown wealth of evidence with which we now ground our teaching and research in African American emancipation. In seven other coedited volumes, Ira has brought to the fore dimensions of African American experience ranging from military service in the Civil War to African American kinship. A former president of the Organization of American Historians, Berlin has a mul- tifaceted record of service. A former member of the Advisory Board of the National Archives and the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., he has been a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and the New-York Historical Society. He has also served on the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award, we honor the depth and range of the contributions Ira Berlin has made for nearly four decades.

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Frederick Jackson Turner Award for an author’s first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: DAVI D A . HOLLINGE R, UNIVERSI TY OF CALIFO RNIA, BERKELEY, CH A I R ; CHA RLOTTE BROOKS , BARUCH COLLEGE , CU NY; AN D BETHA NY MO RETON, UNIVERSI TY OF GEORGI A. David Sehat, Georgia State University. The Myth of American Religious Freedom (Oxford University Press) is an analytically rigorous, skillfully argued reinterpretation of one of the largest and most vexing questions in the study of the history of the United States: just what have been the dynamics of the tension between the First Amendment’s free exercise clause and that amendment’s prohibition on religious establishments? Differing markedly from the two principle traditions of historical interpretation—(1) a “strict separationist” tradition in which the Founders are credited with creating, in Thomas Jefferson’s phrase, “a wall of separation” between church and state, successfully defended until recent partisans of a more religious public culture have breached it, and (2) a “secularist conspiracy” insistence that a large measure of religious permeation of the civic order was taken for granted from the start and was then subverted by secular zealots—Sehat argues that an informal “moral establishment” propelled by Protestant priorities rendered the civic life of the United States more de facto religious than either of these traditions of scholarship has recognized. This is a strikingly original book, addressed to one of the oldest and most contested issues in the study of American history. Sehat provides a fresh reading of sources that have long been central to the conversation and mobilizes a host of additional sources rarely understood as relevant to the issue.

H ONORABLE M E NTION James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago, The Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (Oxford University Press). Never again can one doubt that World War II played the largest role in transforming the federal government of the United States into a colossus. And never again can one ignore the singular role of the image of the male combat soldier in providing legitimacy for this expansion of state power. What most distinguishes James Sparrow’s proof of these two claims is its ex- haustive documentation. Combing one discursive domain after another for evidence, Sparrow has produced a model of empirical warrant in historical scholarship.

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Merle Curti Award for the best books published in American intellectual and social history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: LI NDA GORDON, NE W YO RK UNIVERSI TY, CH A I R ; PE KKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, UNIV ERSI TY OF C ALIFO RNIA, SANTA BARB A R A ; SCO TT R . NELSO N, COLLEG E OF W I LLIAM & M A R Y ; SETH R O C K MAN, BROWN UNIV ERS I T Y ; M ARTH A A. SANDWEIS S , P R INCE TON UNIV ERSI T Y ; A N D AM Y DR U STANLEY, UNIVERSI TY OF C HICAGO.

IN TELLECTUAL H I STORY Susan J. Pearson, Northwestern University. The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America (The University of Chicago Press) discusses the work of child- and animal-saving charities but, more importantly, interrogates their ideology with respect to their assumptions and the meanings they give to concepts of cruelty, childhood, discipline, humanitarianism, and protection. Protection in particular, she shows, became a goal that significantly expanded state power. She examines the unresolved conflict between the assumptions of liberalism on which much of the American Constitution rested and the realities of animals’ and children’s dependence. The committee particularly appreciated how The Rights of the Defenseless identifies and wrestles with this fundamental problem in political theory not through close readings of formal theory but rather through the work of social and moral reformers. By making sentience rather than rationality or economic independence the basis for claims to rights, these reformers helped transform American political theory—in its applied if not in its formal existence—from a laissez-faire to a “welfare state” brand of liberalism.

SO CIAL H I STORY Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William & Mary. No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press) is truly pioneering, following on Hahamovitch’s previous The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870 –1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997). While we have considerable scholarship about migrant farmworkers in the U.S. West, Hahamovitch is the ﬁrst to study those in the eastern states. No Man’s Land addresses the history of a massive global phenomenon—corporate employers relying on guestworkers who, because they are not citizens, are unable to defend themselves against exploitation and abuse of their rights as workers. No Man’s Land is a deeply comparative study, resting on extensive knowledge of and research in Jamaica and on more than 25 interviews with former guestworkers. It analyzes agents in the system— notably federal and state governments, in both their actions and their inaction, and also the growers, the Jamaican government, and the workers themselves, not only farmworkers but also the female maids and waitresses brought in after 1986. Beautifully and accessibly written, the book cuts across many aspects of U.S. history, including labor, agriculture, political economy, race, and gender.

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James A. Rawley Prize for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States AW ARD CO MMITTEE: JOS É M . AL AMILLO, CALIFO RNIA STATE UNIVERSI TY CHA NNEL ISL ANDS , CH A I R ; LISBETH HAAS , UNIVERSI TY OF CALIFO RNIA, SANTA CRUZ; AND NELSO N LICH TENST EIN, UNIV ERSI TY OF C ALIFO RNIA, SANTA BARB ARA. Cindy Hahamovitch, College of William & Mary. No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press) offers an innovative transnational approach to the history of Jamaican guestworkers within the context of global labor migration from World War II to contemporary times. Using an impressive array of sources from U.S., Jamaican, and British archives, as well as personal interviews, Hahamovitch probes the history of the little-known H-2 Program, which facilitated the importation of Jamaican laborers, who were all too often exploited by sugar growers, isolated from society, pitted against other workers, and left in a near stateless “no man’s land.” As guestworkers moved from work in northern states to the Florida cane fields, Hahamovitch argues that the labor regime characterized by Jim Crow norms became particularly vicious, a new kind of apartheid, many features of which continue to this day. Guestworkers were not entirely victims, however; they skipped contracts, went on strike, and made use of the courts, but corporate-state power that stood against them ultimately left these non- citizens vulnerable to exploitation and deportation. Additionally, the book is one of the first histories to incorporate women guestworkers. The book also features analysis that compares Jamaican guestworkers to Mexican braceros and to those abroad in Europe, South Africa, and Asia.

Richard W. Leopold Prize awarded every two years for the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, the historical activities of the federal government, or biography by a government historian PR IZE CO MMITTEE: D ARLENE RICH ARDSO N, U. S. DE PARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, C H A I R ; BRENDA GAYLE PL UMMER, UNIVERSI TY OF W I S C O N S I N-MA DISO N ; A N D TI MOTH Y P . TO WNSE ND, LINCO LN HOME NA TIONAL HIST ORIC SITE. William A. Dobak, The United States Army Center of Military History (retired). Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867 (The United States Army Center of Military History) is one of the best books written in recent times to encapsulate the government’s recruitment and use of black troops during and immediately after the Civil War. The book examines events and changes in federal law and policies that affected the military establishment, black people, the war, and society, through a compelling narrative woven

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from a broad spectrum of primary sources. Freedom by the Sword examines the full scope of U.S. Colored Troops’ service, from their disjointed and unofficial beginnings in 1862 through their challenging task of enforcing peace in the South during Reconstruc- tion, and placement in the reorganized and scaled-down military forces after the war. The author goes beyond mere political and military contexts in this book, synthesizing social and cultural contexts and analyzing the impact of former slaves’ military service on them as individuals, their families, and the country at large—before, during, and after the Civil War. Freedom by the Sword is richly illustrated and dense with useful historical data that will benefit professional and public historians and the general public for many years to come.

Avery O. Craven Award for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: ED WARD B. RUGE MER, Y ALE U N I V ERSI TY, CH A I R ; C. WY ATT EVANS , DR EW UNIVERSI T Y ; A N D CH ANDRA M ANNING, GEORGE TOWN UNIV ERSI TY. Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University. A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community (University Press of Kansas). Excellent histories of the Civil War era published in 2011 have challenged us to think differently about railroads, American literature, Confederate nationalism, and southern politics. From among this impressive field, Nicole Etcheson’s A Generation at War emerges as this year’s winner of the Avery O. Craven Award. A Generation at War is an imaginatively constructed, deeply researched study of Putnam County, Indiana, from the 1840s through the arrival of the exodust- ers in the 1870s. As transnational history has become increasingly important for many historians, Etcheson reminds us of the importance of the local. Her study demonstrates with wonderful detail how deeply felt was the sectional crisis, the war, its aftermath, and its memory, among a people most do not think of as pivotal actors in this national drama. Etcheson blends economy, politics, the state, culture, and race in ways that ring true to how people actually lived those categories. Readers are left with a granular sense of an agrarian North that belies the myth of an industrial powerhouse, which in fact had not yet emerged. Etcheson shows that the war forced many northerners—white and black, male and female, Republican and Democrat—to rethink the deep-seated assumptions that had shaped their lives for so long. And ultimately, her book invites us to rethink our own assumptions about the history and meaning of the Civil War.

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Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present PR IZE CO MMITTEE: MEG JACOBS , MASSACHUSE TTS I N S T ITUTE OF T E C H N OLOGY , CH A I R ; ALISO N ISENBERG , PR INCE TON U N I V E R S I T Y ; MA TTHE W D . LASSI TER, UNIVERSI TY OF M I C H I G A N ; D OUG R O S S I NOW, ME TROPOLITAN STATE UNIV ERSI T Y ; A N D BRUC E J. SCHU LMAN, BOST ON UNIVERSI TY. Darren Dochuk, Purdue University. A stunning new book, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.), offers a fresh exploration of modern American politics and the rise of conservatism. Professor Dochuk accomplishes this by putting religion at the center of his analysis, integrating and insisting on the importance of evangelicalism in explaining how and why Americans moved rightward in the twentieth century. Uncovering an amazing archival base of church records, Dochuk presents an impressive and convincing portrait of how preachers, parishioners, and politicians shared what he calls a love for “Jesus and Jefferson,” a world view that gave credence to an antigovernment political ideology. By following the migration of dust bowl Americans to southern California, Dochuk introduces us to a new cast of characters who were central to what would later become the New Right. In addition to providing a compelling and richly textured account of their lives, Dochuk shows how these local actors moved in an ever-widening and increasingly influential network of churches, businesses, universities, and public offices. As the winner of the 2012 Hawley Prize, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt establishes religion and its affiliated institutions as a central ingredient in understanding modern politics and political economy.

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Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present AW ARD CO MMITTEE: SHI RLEY AN N MO ORE, CALIFO RNIA STATE UNIVERSI TY, SACR AMENTO, CH A I R ; THO MAS A . GUGL IELMO, GEORG E WASHINGT ON UNIVERSI T Y ; A N D ROBE RT A . PR ATT, UNIVERSI TY OF GEORGI A. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press) is an analytically sophisticated study of the local struggles that made up the national civil rights movement. It documents the influence of Atlanta’s black community and people such as A. T. Walden, Len Holt, and Ethel Mae Matthews, who were grassroots “law shapers, law interpreters, and even law makers.” The author persuasively argues that these local leaders were powerful agents of change and were as central to the fight for civil rights as Thurgood Marshall or Earl Warren. The book is meticulously researched in an impressive range of sources. It spotlights the “long civil rights movement” with its examination of generational continuity and conflict in the fight against Jim Crow and its balance between national currents and a “sensitivity to local perspectives.” It is clearly written and provides a complex picture of the numerous and shifting factions, strategies, and goals of the southern civil rights movement and Atlanta’s African American community. Professor Brown-Nagin is equally comfortable talking about the details of the federal court system (and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund) or explaining the on-the-ground intricacies of the Atlanta story. The book skillfully bridges social and legal history and brilliantly melds local and national history. This book stands as a significant and unique contribution to the field of civil rights history.

H ONORABLE M E NTION The late Manning Marable (May 13, 1950 – April 1, 2011), Columbia University. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking Penguin Books) is an outstanding biography of an extraordinarily complex and important figure in the African American freedom struggle. Professor Marable moves beyond the mythology that surrounds Malcolm x and has masked and distorted his historic significance. the book is exhaustively researched, clearly written, and places Malcolm x within the broad contours of black civil rights activism and radicalism. This book was a strong contender and merits honorable mention.

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Lawrence W. Levine Award for the best book in American cultural history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: AN N FABI AN, RUTGERS UNIVERSI TY–NE W BRUNSWICK , CH A I R ; CASE Y NELSO N BLAKE, COLUMBI A U N I V E R S I T Y ; KATHL EEN BROWN, UNIVERSI TY OF P E NNS Y L V A N I A ; SUSA N A . GLENN, UNIVERSI TY OF W A S H I N G T O N ; A N D KIMBE RLEY L . PHI LLIPS , BROOKLYN COLLEGE -CU NY. Michael Willrich, Brandeis University. Pox: An American History (Penguin Group, USA) is a beautifully written account of the smallpox epidemics that ripped through American cities at the turn of the twentieth century. The virus killed relatively few, but as Willrich explains so well, the organized response to those few deaths had lasting effects on culture, law, and politics. The book sets those abstract concerns in compelling descriptions of speciﬁc neighbor- hoods and communities. Willrich’s wonderful ability to account for the ideas and actions of ordinary people and to capture the struggles over power in their daily lives persuaded the committee that the book deserved an award that honored Lawrence Levine. His chapter, “The Antivaccinationists,” demonstrates the value of an intellectual project that deftly weaves together histories of medicine and law to capture the encounter between experts—armed with the authority of the state—and ordinary people determined to resist ofﬁcial intrusion into their lives. Willrich uncovers fundamental questions that lie at the heart of contests over public health. When does the need to protect the health of the community trump the right to “bodily autonomy”? His account recovers surprising moments in histories of urban politics, eugenics, health activism, legal rights, and the cultural constructions of race and class. Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: MI A BAY, RUTGERS UNIVERSI TY–NE W BRUNSWICK , CH A I R ; M ARTH A S. JONES , U N I V ERSI TY OF M I C H I G AN; A N D LIS A LEVENST EIN, UNIVERSI TY OF N O RTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBO RO. Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press), the committee’s unanimous choice for this year’s award, is a brilliant excavation of the role that analogies between sexual and racial discrimination have played in legal battles over women’s rights. Mayeri recasts the story of 1970s legal feminism by uncovering a largely forgotten history of black and white women’s activism, which pursued much more expansive conceptions of equality than those that ultimately became law. In doing so, Mayeri also moves the field of African American women’s history forward by demon- strating how black women’s activism and insights from their work in civil rights shaped women’s rights struggles. Her ambitious and probing research demonstrates the analytical power of an intersectional approach to women’s history and leaves us with a radically new vision of how black women locally and nationally shaped legal culture.

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Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history PR IZE CO MMITTEE: CATHE RINE A LLGO R, UNIV ERSI TY OF C ALIFO RNIA, RIV ERSI DE, CH A I R ; N ANCY BERCA W, N ATIONAL MUSE UM OF A MERIC AN HIST O R Y ; A N D LIS A G. MA TERSO N, UNIVERSI TY OF CALIFO RNIA, DAVIS. Katherine Turk, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Spring 2012)/ University of Texas at Dallas (Fall 2012). “Equality on Trial: Women and Work in the Age of Title VII” (University of Chicago dissertation, with advis- ers Amy Dru Stanley, Christine Stansell, and James T. Sparrow) is a thought- fully conceived and deeply researched dissertation and a major contribution to U.S. women’s history as well as to the histories of law, labor, and business. Katherine Turk takes a topic fundamental to twentieth-century American women’s history—Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act banning workplace discrimination on the basis of sex—and demonstrates that passage was only the beginning of a complex battle. She documents the profound complexities that government agencies, the courts, women workers, gay male workers, labor union activists, feminists, employers, and lawyers encountered in interpreting and applying its principles between 1964 and the 1990s. By delving into grassroots responses to Title VII and using a stunning array of documents gathered from archives throughout the country, Turk is able to illustrate how different Americans defined “equality” and “difference” from the 1960s to the present and how these definitions became reified and less flexible as they worked their way through the court system. The significance of “Equality on Trial” lies in the analysis of Title VII as a living law. Katherine Turk extends the long civil rights movement into the present, providing historians and legal analysts alike an invaluable analytical tool for understanding gendered rights as well as civil rights actions.

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Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for the best essay in American history by a graduate student AW ARD CO MMITTEE: ED WARD T . L I NENTH AL, e x ecutive ed itor, oah/ e d itor, JO URNAL OF A M ERICAN H I STORY , ch air, ex officio; JOH N M . BELOHLAVE K, UNIVERSI TY OF SOUTH FLORIDA; M A R G A RET S. CREIGHT ON, BATES COLLEGE ; JENNIFE R GUGL IELMO, SMITH COLLEGE ; A N D RA NDALL M . MI LLER, SAINT JOSEPH’S UNIVERSI TY. Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College. “The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy” (scheduled to appear in the March 2013 Journal of American History) examines the role of states in the development of federal immigration policy. The Immi- gration Act of 1882, the first national-level immigration legislation that applied to all aliens, prohibited the landing of paupers and criminals and included a deportation clause for the latter group. (These provisions were modeled on passenger laws of New York and Massachusetts, where immigration control had been pursued at the state level since the eighteenth century.) The federal act left the actual enforcement of its provisions to state immigration officials until federal employees replaced them in 1891. By examining the implementation of the Immigration Act by state officials in New York and Massachusetts in 1883, during the time when the British government sent groups of destitute Irish to the United States, this article demonstrates that the federalization of immigration control was a more gradual and contingent process than historians have assumed. The article further argues that the roots of some of the practices that characterized later federal immigration control— such as temporary detention and medical inspection at landing stations and borders, and American officers’ hostile attitudes toward undesirable aliens—lay in state officials’ activities prior to the emergence of federal immigration law. State officials’ participation in federal immigration policy during its foundational period, therefore, provided a crucial bridge between state and federal supervision of immigration and determined the nature of the federal immigration control that developed from the 1880s onward.

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Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best scholarly article that appeared in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year AW ARD CO MMITTEE: RA YMOND ARSE NAULT, UNIVERSI TY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, ST. PE TERSBURG , CH A I R ; R ANDAL L. HALL, R I C E U N I V ERSI TY; AND GAIL R ADFO RD, SU NY- BUFF ALO. Kevin J. Mumford, University of Iowa. “The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969–1982” (June 2011) pulls together political and social history to make a complex, innovative contribution to historians’ understanding of sexual identity, minority rights, and conservatism. In 1975 gay activists in Philadelphia failed to win passage of city legislation banning discrimination against homosexuals; however, in 1982 a similar proposal was approved. Gay activists of the early and mid-1970s struggled to overcome opposition not only from black civil rights activists who disavowed comparisons between the movements but also from both white and African American religious conservatives. The initial whiteness of the gay rights effort hampered its effectiveness. Spurred in part by rising conser- vative political power in the United States, activists in the city subsequently renewed the campaign under the auspices of the more diverse Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force. African Americans’ increasing political power in the city, growing black gay activism, and alliances with religious liberals allowed the coalition to succeed in 1982. Well researched and clearly argued, this article brings out the larger importance of a complicated case study. David Thelen Award for the best article on American history published in a foreign language a w ard coM M i ttee: ed ward t. LinenthaL, ex ecutive ed itor, oah/ e d itor, JO URNAL OF A M ERICAN H I STORY , ch air, ex officio; Kate de L a ney, MaS S a chuS e ttS INST ITUTE OF T E C H N OLOGY ; HANS K R A B B E NDAM, ROOSEVE LT STUDY CENTER; AND LA RIS A M . TR OITSK AIA, CENTER FO R NO RTH A M ERICA N STUDIES , INST ITUTE OF WO RLD HIST ORY, RUSSI AN ACA DEMY OF S CI ENCES. Nathalie Caron, Université Paris-Est Créteil, and Naomi Wulf, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. “The American Enlightenment: Continuity and Renewal” (Transatlantica, Online Journal of American Studies), scheduled to appear in the March 2013 Journal of American History, focuses on how historians have addressed the Enlightenment as a historical category in the United States since the beginning of the twenty-ﬁrst century and on how historians have, over the same period, approached the American Enlightenment. It aims to gauge and conceptualize the level of interest in the American Enlightenment in the academy, at a moment when in public debate in the United States and beyond—particularly in France—the Enlightenment paradigm is clearly visible. The essay brings to the fore the heterogeneous quality of what is labeled “the Enlightenment” and shows how varied scholarly concerns can be, on both sides of the Atlantic. Besides contributing to the study of an American Enlightenment, and hence to Enlightenment studies more widely, this essay also provides, from an outsider’s viewpoint, further insight into what appears to be an ideologically fraught question.

2012 OAH/NCPH ANNUAL MEETING • MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN • 17 2012 Awards and Prizes

Huggins-Quarles Award for graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation AW ARD CO MMITTEE: MICHA EL D . IN NIS- JIMÉNEZ, UNIVERSI TY OF A L A B A MA, CH A I R ; AD RIENNE PE TTY, THE CITY COLLEG E OF N E W YO RK, CU NY; LA URENE W U MCC LAIN, CITY COLLEG E OF SAN FRANC I S C O ; JESSIC A MI LLWARD, UNIVERSI TY OF CALIFO RNIA, IRVI NE; AND LY DIA R . OT ERO, UNIVERSI TY OF A R IZONA. Mekala S. Audain, Rutgers University–New Brunswick. “Southern Canaan: U.S. Fugitive Slaves in Mexico and the Expanding American Frontier, 1804–1865” is trailblazing research that centers on antebellum-era runaway slaves who escaped to Mexico rather than seeking freedom in the northern United States or Canada. In this transnational project, Audain follows the runaway slaves from east Texas, through the borderlands, and into Mexico. She examines escape plans, the routes the escaped slaves traveled, and the dangers they faced at every step of their journey. Audain’s innovative project will give us a better insight into the African American experience in Mexico, in Texas, and along the routes they traveled. Her research also examines escaped slaves’ lives in Mexico and the role runaway slaves played in already-tense U.S.-Mexico relations. Audain also looks at how fugitive slaves and free blacks economically and socially contributed to Mexico through their role in the Texas Revolution and as tax-paying members of Mexican society. Mekala Audain has conducted research at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, the University of Texas’ Center for American History, the Archivo General de la Nación, and the diplo- matic archives in Mexico City, among other places. She will use the award money to help defray expenses to conduct research at Yale University’s Beinecke and Sterling Libraries. Tachau Teacher of the Year Award for contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education within the field of American history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: AN DREA SAC HS, ST. PA UL ACA DEMY AND SUMMIT SCHO OL, CH A I R ; D ANIEL KA TZ, N ATIONAL LABO R COLLEGE ; A N D LIS A L . OSSI AN, D E S M O INES A R EA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Robert Good, Ladue Horton Watkins High School (MO). The committee is pleased to offer the Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award to Robert Good, a social studies teacher at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Good’s work reflects his passion for American history, his expertise as a classroom teacher, his commitment to educational equity and social justice, and his dedication to building rich and meaningful professional networks. A master teacher who connects deeply with his students, Dr. Good also serves as an inspiring mentor and generous partner to his colleagues across all stages of their careers. We are pleased to honor a creative and innovative classroom teacher who embodies Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau’s dedication to forging intellectual and professional connections between secondary and university teachers.

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Erik Barnouw Award for outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history AW ARD CO MMITTEE: VIVI AN BRUC E CONGE R, ITHAC A COLLEGE , CH A I R ; DESI RÉE J. GARCI A, AR IZONA STATE UNIVERSI T Y ; A N D GERALD E . SHE NK, CALIFO RNIA STATE UNIVERSI TY, MO NTEREY BAY. Chad Freidrichs, Director and Assistant Professor, Digital Filmmaking Department, Stephens College. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History demonstrates a thorough use of local archives in St. Louis and unearths fascinating material, especially historic footage. Director Chad Freidrichs is adept at extracting, framing, and organizing interviews in a way that reveals the complexity of the subject. Most importantly, he moves beyond simplistic “good and bad” interpre- tations for a nuanced treatment. The production values and strategies, including the re-creations, historical experts, and interview segments, create a powerful impact and are artistically done. Moreover, the director effectively places this very local story in the larger context of social, political, legislative, and economic changes across the United States during the last half of the twentieth century. These changes include suburbanization and white flight from major cities and how both affected the urban tax base, caused the decay of urban infrastructure, and increased unemployment for the poor and minorities left in the cities. The ﬁlm also addresses the larger unintended social consequences of federal welfare policies.

Linda Hoaglund, Director and Producer. ANPO: Art x War makes a signiﬁcant visual contribution to the history of American international relations. Director Linda Hoaglund allows the artists and participants of the 1960 demonstra- tions against the ANPO treaty to tell this story, privileging their voices over experts. What we most appreciated about the film is the camera’s framing and movement across the artwork and its editing against the oral histories. This technique forces the viewer to be an active witness by confronting the art in a very direct way. In addition, the director presents non-American perspectives on U.S. foreign policy, showing through the eyes of artists how Japanese citizens have felt the impacts of U.S. military power. This film powerfully and effectively offers this kind of view from the outside.

2012 OAH/NCPH ANNUAL MEETING • MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN • 19 2012 Awards and Prizes

OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residencies The OAH and the Japanese Association of American Studies, with the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, select two U.S. historians to spend two weeks at Japanese universities giving lectures, seminars, advising students and researchers interested in the American past, and joining in the collegiality of the host institution. It is part of an exchange program that also brings Japanese graduate students to the OAH Annual Meeting. RESI DENC I E S C O MMITTEE: AN DREA GEIGE R, SIMON FRASE R UNIVERSI TY, CHA IR (O A H ) ; SATOS H I N AKANO, HITOTSUBASHI UNIV ERSI TY, CH AIR (JAAS ) ; KOHE I KAWASHI MA, MUSASH I UNIVERSI TY; KI M E . NI ELSE N, UNIVERSI TY OF W I S C O N S I N – G R E E N B AY ; SAYURI GUTHR IE SHI MIZU, MICHIGA N STATE U N I V E R S I T Y ; THO MAS J. SUGR UE, UNIVERSI TY OF P E NNSYLVA N I A ; A N D M ARI YOSHIH ARA, UNIV ERSI TY OF HAWAI‘I AT M ANOA.

Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth. Ehime University, U.S. foreign relations in the Cold War era.

Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University. Yamaguchi University, the history of race and ethnicity.

Five Japanese students studying in the United States were selected to receive funding to attend this year’s OAH Annual Meeting. They are: Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College; Ai Hisano, University of Delaware; Hiroaki Matsusaka, University of Michigan; Mina Muraoka, Brandeis University; and Go Oyagi, University of Southern California.

Germany Residency Program Thanks to a generous grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the OAH is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Residency Program in American History– Germany (Germany Residency Program) at the University of Tübingen. The resident scholar will offer a seminar on a U.S. history topic of his or her design. RESI DENCY COMMITTEE (SUBC OMMITTEE OF I N TERNATIONAL COMMITTEE): VICT OR R . GREENE, UNIVERSI TY OF W I S C O N S I N–MI LWAUKEE, EM ERITUS , CH A I R ; BETH BAILEY, TE MPLE UNIV ERS I T Y ; G. KU RT PIEHL ER, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSI T Y ; A N D GEORG S CHI LD, UNIVERSI TY OF T Ü B I N G E N. Bryant Simon, Temple University

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OAH/Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grants for graduate students to be used toward costs of attending the OAH/NCPH/IEHS Annual Meeting GRANTS C O MMITTEE: LO N KU RASHIGE , UNIVERSI TY OF SOUTHE RN CALIFO RNIA, CH A I R ; DO MINIC A . PACYGA , COLUMBI A COLLEG E CHICAGO ; A N D a n drew K. SandovaL- StrauS z , un iverS i ty of ne w Mexico.

Aaron Bryant, University of Maryland, College Park. Mr. Bryant works in the areas of museum studies and material culture. His Ph.D. dissertation, “A Different Lens: Alternative Views of the Civil Rights Movement and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign,” sheds light on this often-overlooked campaign, which proved to be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final vision for social justice. This study examines the campaign from “above” and “below,” while employing an interdisciplinary methodology drawing upon art history, life history, political science, and architecture. Mr. Bryant is a participant in the 2012 OAH Annual Meeting on the panel “Exhibiting Democracy: Biographical Exhibitions and Sociopolitical Frontiers.”

Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, Duke University. Ms. Greenlee-Donnell is working at the crossroads of legal, African American, southern, and women’s history in studying late- nineteenth-century ideas of childhood. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Daughters of the Nadir: Black Girls and Childhood on Trial in Jim Crow South Carolina,” historicizes African American vernacular legal cultures, while shedding light on the convergence of Progressive reform, early segregationist law, and postemancipation struggles over childhood in the turn-of-the-century South. She is a participant in the 2012 OAH Annual Meeting on the panel “The Black Body, Sexuality and Reproduction in U.S. Law,” sponsored by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession.

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After the presidential address, please join us in honoring outgoing OAH President Alice Kessler-Harris with a reception held in the Wright Ballroom of the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The 2012 OAH Presidential Reception is sponsored by the Division of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, the History Department at Columbia University, and Oxford University Press. Following the Presidential Reception, join an extraordinary team of historian-hosts for a live taping of the radio show BackStory with the American History Guys as they use the history of alcohol to explore capitalism, democracy, immigration, labor, and more.