Bennett H. Wall Award
Award Description
The Bennett H. Wall Award was established in 2000 to honor the long-term service of Bennett Wall, who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the SHA for over thirty-three years (1952-1985), and as SHA President in 1988. In keeping with Professor Wall's own scholarly contribution to southern history, the Wall Prize will be awarded to the best book published in southern business or economic history over a two-year period. The next award will be made at the annual meeting in 2026 in Atlanta, GA, for a book published in 2024 or 2025. Entries should be submitted to the committee members before March 1, 2026.
2026 Award Committee
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University, Chair
Longstreet Hall 214
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Brandon Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
916 Volunteer Blvd
6th Floor, Stokely Management Center
Knoxville, TN 37996
Alison Collis Greene, Emory University
Candler School of Theology, Emory University
1531 Dickey Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
Past Winners
2024 - Sharon Ann Murphy
Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States, (University of Chicago
Press, 2023).
2022 - Timothy Minchin
America’s Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States, University of Georgia Press, 2021
2020 - Shennette Garrett-Scott
Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S Finance Before the New Deal, Columbia University Press, 2019
2018 - Keri Leigh Merritt
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, Cambridge University Press, 2017
2016 - N. D. B. Connolly
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, University of Chicago Press, 2014
2014 - Kari Frederickson
Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South, University of Georgia Press, 2013
2012 - Rebecca Sharpless
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens, 1865-1960, University of North Carolina Press, 2010
2010 - Brian Schoen
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
2008 - Jack Temple Kirby
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, University of North Carolina Press, 2006
2006 - Steven Deyle
Carry Me Back: Domestic Slave Trade in American Life, Oxford University Press, 2005
2004 - Jonathan D. Martin
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, Harvard University Press, 2004
2002 - Curtis J. Evans
The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
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