The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, by David S. Cecelski

Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History, by Michael Kent Curtis

Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro, by John David Smith

North Carolina Women: Making History, by Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson

Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory, by Bill Bamberger and Cathy Davidson

A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina, by Catherine W. Bishir and Michael Southern

Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920, by James L. Leloudis

William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education, by William A. Link

William Faulkner and Southern History, by Joel Williamson

The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930, by William A. Link

Keeper of the Moon: A Southern Boyhood, by Tim McLaurin

North Carolina Architecture, by Catherine W. Bishir

Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present, by David R. Goldfield

North Carolina Through Four Centuries, by William S. Powell

William Woods Holden: Firebrand of North Carolina Politics, by William C. Harris

Turners & Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina, by Charles G. Zug, III

Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900, by Paul D. Escott

The Crucible of Race: black/white relations in the American South since emancipation, by Joel Williamson

My Own, My Country's Time: a journalist's journey, by Vermont Royster

Cottonfields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980, by David Reed Goldfield

Hemingway's Nick Adams, by Joseph M. Flora

John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey, by Townsend Ludington

Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom, by William H. Chafe

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives, by Paul D. Escott

The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America, by Lawrence Goodwyn

The Development of English Glassmaking, 1560-1640, by Eleanor Smith Godfrey

The Loneliness at the Core: Studies in Thomas Wolfe, by C. Hugh Holman

Beautiful Lofty People, by Helen Bevington

The Pre-Raphaelite Poets, by Lionel Stevenson

The Moravian Potters of North Carolina, by John Bivins, Jr.

Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, by Jonathan Daniels

The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Military Laborers, 1861-1865, by James H. Brewer

A History of the American Revolution, by John R. Alden

The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945, by George B. Tindall

Leon Blum: Humanist in Politics, by Joel Colton

Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom, by Glenn Tucker

The Free Men, by John Ehle

Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the United States Navy, by Glenn Tucker

William Swaim, Fighting Editor: the story of O. Henry's grandfather, by Ethel Stephens Arnett

William P. Sharpe (for Outstanding Literary Achievement over a Period of Years)

Thomas Wolfe and His Family, by Mable Wolfe Wheaton, with Legette Blythe

The Negro Vanguard, by Richard Bardolph

To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865, by Burke Davis

The Hatterasman, by Ben Dixon MacNeill

George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, by Archibald Henderson

Tecumseh: Vision of Glory, by Glenn Tucker

The South in American Literature, 1607-1900, by Jay B. Hubbell

North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, by Hugh T. Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome

Miracle in the Hills, by Mary T. Martin Sloop and LeGette Blythe

The Papacy: A New Appraisal, by John McKnight

The Man of Independence, by Jonathan Daniels

Debby, by Max Steele

The Woman Who Rang the Bell: The Story of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, by Phillips Russell

The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848, by Charles S. Sydnor

This Great and Wide Sea, by Robert E. Coker

Mexican Village, by Josephina Niggli

The Wilson Era: Years of Peace, 1910-1917, by Josephus Daniels

The Road to Salem, by Adelaide L. Fries

No Day of Triumph, by J. Saunders Redding

The History of Quakerism, by Elbert Russell

The Mind of the South, by Wilbur J. Cash

The Good Old Days, by David L. Cohn

Purslane, by Bernice Kelly Harris

A Southerner Discovers the South, by Jonathan Daniels

The Development of Modern Medicine, by Richard H. Shryock

The Estates General of 1789, by Mitchell B. Garrett

Roll River, by James Boyd

World Resources and Industries, by Erich W. Zimmermann

Human Geography of the South, by Rupert B. Vance

Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, by Archibald Henderson

History of the Public Schools in North Carolina, by M.C.S. Noble