Charles S. Sydnor Award
Award Description
The Charles S. Sydnor Award is given in recognition of a distinguished book in southern history published in odd-numbered years and awarded in even-numbered years. It will be awarded at the 2026 meeting in Atlanta, GA for a book published during 2025. Copies should be forwarded to the committee members no later than March 1, 2026.
2026 Award Committee
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)
2315 Dwinelle Hall, University of Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Greg O'Brien, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2129 MHRA Building, PO Box 26170
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402
Amy Murrell Taylor, University of Kentucky
1703 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
Past Winners
2024 - Dylan C. Penningroth
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, W. W. Norton, 2023
2022 - Warren Milteer, Jr.
Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South, University of North Carolina Press, 2021
2020 - Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (co-winner)
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, W. W. Norton, 2019
2020 - Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (co-winner)
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Yale University Press, 2019
2018 - Julio Capó Jr.
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, University of North Carolina Press, 2017
2016 - Alison Collis Greene
No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta, Oxford University Press, 2015
2014 - Caroline E. Janney
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, University of North Carolina Press, 2013
2012 - Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford University Press, 2011
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
2008 - Juliana Barr
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2007
2006 - W. Fitzhugh Brundage
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Harvard University Press, 2005
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
2002 - Jack E. Davis
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
2000 - Claudio Saunt
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816, Cambridge University Press, 1999
1998 - Neil Foley
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, University of California Press, 1997
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
1994 - Michael Honey
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights, University of Illinois Press, 1993
1992 - Charles Royster
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991
1990 - Allen Tullos
Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont, University of North Carolina Press, 1989
1988 - Peter Kolchin
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, Harvard University Press, 1987
1986 - James C. (Pete) Daniel
Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880, University of Illinois Press, 1985
1984 - Drew Gilpin Faust
James Henry Hammond and the Old South, A Design for Mastery, Louisiana State University Press, 1982
1982 - Bruce Palmer
Man Over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism, University of North Carolina Press, 1980
1980 - Richard Beale Davis
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763, University of Tennessee Press, 1978
1978 - Thomas C. Holt
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction, University of Illinois Press, 1977
1976 - Edmund S. Morgan
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, W. W. Norton, 1975
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
1972 - Allen W. Trelease
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, Harper & Row, 1971
1970 - Sheldon Hackney
Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, Princeton University Press, 1969
1968 - George B. Tindall
The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, Louisiana State University Press, 1967
1966 - Willie Lee Rose
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1964
1964 - Albert D. Kirwan
John J. Crittenden: The Struggle for the Union, University of Kentucky Press, 1962
1962 - C. Vann Woodward
The Burden of Southern History, Louisiana State University Press, 1960
1960 - Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South, Louisiana State University Press, 1958
1958 - Arlin Turner
George W. Cable: A Biography, Duke University Press, 1956
1956 - Joseph H. Parks
General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A., Louisiana State University Press, 1954
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