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[[File:Pirate_Nests.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|<i>Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740</i>]]
Every year, the Organization of American Historians awards prizes for the best books in United States history for that year within different historical disciplines. These books are evaluated by extremely qualified historians and who identify some of the best new books in American history for 2016. 

===Frederick Jackson Turner Award===
The Turner Award is given to an author for their first scholarly book on United States history.

Mark G. Hanna,  <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469636042/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469636042&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1f8c14b9ad70642342762abb0fb69ad3 Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740]</i> (2017, University of North Carolina Press)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Joshua L. Reid, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300209908/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300209908&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=39b83589a4aa2b720a35389a68f28f86 The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs]</i> (Yale University Press).

Andrew J. Torget, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469624249/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469624249&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ecf1be3f569ed63ee41355c6d0037313 Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850]</i> (University of North Carolina Press).

===Merle Curti Award===
The Curti Award is given to the best new books in the fields of American social history and intellectual history.
[[File:Corazon_Dixie.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|<i>Corazón de Dixie</i> by Julie Weise]]
'''SOCIAL HISTORY'''
Julie M. Weise, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469624966/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469624966&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c8057b0a61d3b6d44eee74e858233b59 Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)

'''INTELLECTUAL HISTORY'''
Daniel Immerwahr, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674289943/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674289943&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=11e3d7c3c7fd5b2f787fb7be0f06d970 Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development]</i> (Harvard University Press)

===Darlene Clark Hine Award Winners===
The Darlene Clark Hine Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book in African American women's and gender history. 
Talitha L. LeFlouria, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469630001/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469630001&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=42943609d96b33198ab5e013f877d653 Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)

HONORABLE MENTION: 
Premilla Nadasen, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807033197/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807033197&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=9762ed8e632d306be2d317ab386a1317 Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement]</i> (Beacon Press)
HONORABLE MENTION:
Sherie M. Randolph, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469623919/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469623919&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=79bdcf185128b8c5a3a01a34fbbd62ca Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)

===Richard W. Leopold Prize===
The Leopold Prize is unique because it recognizes the contributions of U.S. government and federal contract historians. The award is given to the author or editor of the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, historical activities of the federal government, documentary histories, or biography.

Jacqueline E. Whitt, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469612941/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469612941&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=90650ad9e78372bb52443870032aee1a" Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War]</i> (University of
North Carolina Press)

===Avery O. Craven Award===
The Craven award is given to best book covering the Civil War, the Civil War years, or
the Era of Reconstruction. Military history books are excluded from this prize. 

Martha Hodes, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030019580X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=030019580X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=019908cd2b54b299a93e4eb385ec7ed8 Mourning Lincoln]</i> (Yale University Press). 

HONORABLE MENTION:
Gregory P. Downs, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674743989/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674743989&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=fa398787e59e6daf62f3e9e40e4a3a9f After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War]</i> (Harvard University Press).

===James A. Rawley Prize===
The Rawley Prize recognizes the best new book addressing the history of race relations in the United States. 
[[File:Brethren_by_nature.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|<i>Brethren by Nature</i> by Margaret Ellen Newell]] 
Margaret Ellen Newell, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501705733/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1501705733&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=8113f9e7208418389a0d7bf2426459a3 Brethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery]</i> (Cornell University Press)

===Ellis W. Hawley Prize===
The Hawley prize is awarded for the best book-length on the political economy, politics, or institutions of
the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.

Gary Gerstle, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691162948/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0691162948&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1e9a0fe0356ca2437f074a44f4a48992 Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present]</i> (Princeton University Press)

===Liberty Legacy Foundation Award===
The Liberty Legacy Award is specifically for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle.

Tanisha C. Ford, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469625156/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1469625156&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2b0569bbb05a4634892c4d5d1115da73 Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul]</i> (University of North Carolina Press)

===Lawrence W. Levine Award===
The Levine Award focuses on the best book in American cultural history.

Benjamin Looker, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022629031X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=022629031X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=f0bcb611fac764c5d21fdae3aae4d8ea A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America]</i> (University of Chicago Press).

===David Montgomery Award===
The Montgomery Award is given to the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history. 

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252080661/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252080661&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=1273cecbaaabe512cd3add9e19bef70c Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie]</i> (University of Illinois Press) 
 
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lou Martin, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252081021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0252081021&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=0feb492ff6bbc1696ce55a9a15f7ff74 Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia]</i> (University of Illinois Press).

===Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History===
The Nickless Prize is awarded to the most original book in during any period of American women’s or gender history.

Cassandra Alexis Good, <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199376174/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0199376174&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4f0a5b7c640d04798c9025f42ec50acb Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic] </i> (Oxford University Press).
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