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Recent Award-Winning Books

Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina, Edited by R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis, winner of the 1998 PSP Electronic Product Award in Hard Media - Social Sciences & Humanities

Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life, by Donald C. Pfanz, winner of the 1998 Author's Award, Eastern National and the 1998 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Award, Forrest Cavalry Corps

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country, by Philip D. Morgan, winner of the 1998 Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association and the 1998 Wesley-Logan Prize, American Historical Association

The Nation as Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918, by Alon Confino, winner of the 1998 Charles Smith Award, Southern Historical Asoociation

Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry, by Sarah H. Hill, co-winner of the 1998 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians

Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, by Carol Reardon, winner of the 1998 Philip S. Klein Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association

Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, by Aline Helg, winner of the 1998 Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholars, Caribbean Studies Association

Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker, winner of the 1998 American Edicational Studies Association Critics Choice Award

Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions, by Stephen E. Hanson, winner of the 1998 Vucinich Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Books

Slave Coutnerpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country, by Philip D. Morgan

The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921, by Daniel Letwin

Cutting Into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest, by Deborah Fink

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920, by Ronald L. Lewis


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