Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, winner of the 1997 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860, by Thomas D. Morris, winner of the 1997 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award, Southern Historical Association
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina, by Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, winner of the 1996 Mayflower Cup for Nonfiction, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina and the 1997 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians Book Award
Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Kevin K. Gaines, winner of the 1997 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association
The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain, by Robert Isbell, winner of the 1997 Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, North Carolina Society of Historians
Come Go Home With Me, by Sheila Kay Adams, winner of the 1997 Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award, North Carolina Society of Historians
The Formation of a Society on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1615-1655, by James R. Perry, winner of the 1997 Delmarva History Prize, Salisbury State University
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, by Kathleen M. Brown (OIEAHC), winner of the 1997 John H. Dunning Prize in United States History, American Historical Association
The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, by William J. Novak, winner of the 1997 Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, American Historical Association
Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960, by Brenda Gayle Plummer, co-winner of the 1997 Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History, American Historical Association
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire, by Janice A. Radway, winner of an honorable mention, 1997 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards, Association of American Publishers
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta, by Ronald H. Bayor, winner of a 1997 Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award, Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America
Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940, by Brian McAllister Linn, winner of the 1998 Distinguished Book Award in American Military History, Society for Military History
1997 Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528, by Steven A. Epstein
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil: Politicians against Soldiers, by Wendy Hunter
Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940, by Brian McAllister Linn
Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity, by Robert S. Levine
Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question, by Elna C. Green
Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry, by Sarah H. Hill
The Artists of the Ara Pacis: The Process of Hellenization in Roman Relief Sculpture, by Diane Atnally Conlin
The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The "Jewish Question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars, by Peter R. Erspamer