Frederick Jackson Turner Award
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first given in 1959 as the Prize Studies Award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, has been given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history.

2005

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, by Mae M. Ngai
2004

White on Arrival:  Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945, by  Thomas A. Guglielmo

2003

Captives and Cousins:  Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, by James F. Brooks

2002

The Bulldozer in the Countryside:  Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, by Adam Rome

2001

Captain Ahab Had a Wife:  New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, by Lisa Norling

2000

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, by Timothy B. Tyson
and
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, by Walter Johnson

1999

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, by  Amy Dru Stanley

1998

White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, by Neil Foley
1997

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
1996

Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa, by James T. Campbell
1995

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, by George Chauncey
1994

Common Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860, by  Peter Way

1993

The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization, by Daniel K. Richter
1992

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1864, by Rámon A. Gutiérrez
1991

The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860, by Christopher F. Clark

1990

The Indians' New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal, by James H. Merrell

1989

Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s, by Bruce Nelson
1988

Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, by David Montejano
1987

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, by Alexander Keyssar

1986

Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, by Chester M. Morgan
1985

The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party, by Barton C. Shaw
and
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, by Sean Wilentz

1984

The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890, by Steven Hahn

1983

Beyond Separate Spheres, by Rosalind Rosenberg

1982

To Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, by Clayborne Carson

1981

Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy, by William C. Widenor

1980

Women and Men on the Overland Trail, by John Mack Farragher

1979

Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years, by Charles F. Fanning, Jr.
1978

Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920, by Daniel T. Rodgers

1977

Harpers Ferry Amory and the New Technology, by Merritt Roe Smith
1976

No award given

1975

No award given

1974

Toward an Urban Vision, by Thomas H. Bender
1973

Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905, by Mary O. Furner
1972

The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value, by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
1971

The Citizen Soldiers, by John Garry Clifford

1970

The Politics of Fear: Joseph McCarthy and the Senate, by Robert Griffith

1969

Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, by Ross Gregory
1968

No award given

1967

Radicalism and Reform, 1837-1937, by Ross E. Paulson
1966

Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-1939, by James T. Patterson
1965

Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854, by Ronald E. Shaw
1964

No award given

1963

No award given

1962

The Challenge to American Freedoms: World War I and the Rise of the American Civil Liberties Union, by Donald O. Johnson
1961

An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Vera Cruz, by Robert E. Quirk
1960

No award given

1959

The Idea of Continuous Union: Agitation for the Annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893, by Donald F. Warner

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