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The Museum is pleased to announce the recipients of its 40th annual book awards!
 
For the first time, there are two winners of the Jefferson Davis Award. The recipients for the 2009 Award are Joan Waugh for U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth and Daniel E. Sutherland for A Savage Conflict:The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War, both published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Joan Waugh is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Daniel Sutherland is professor of history at the University of Arkansas.
To order autographed copies of the 2009 winners, please contact the Haversack Store at www.mocstore.org or (804) 649-1861, ext. 53. They also have winning titles from past years available.
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General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse, by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Winner of the 2008 Davis Award, Glatthaar challenges the myth that because Union
forces outnumbered and materially outmatched the Confederates, the rebel
cause was lost, and articulates Lee and his army's acumen and
achievements in the face of this overwhelming opposition. (600 pages, 9” x 6”, Paperback)
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Winner of the 2007 Jefferson Davis Award. Robert E. Lee remains one of the most revered figures in U.S. history. Both in his personal and public life, Lee was more complicated than his iconic image suggests. Historian Pryor uses his private correspondence as a focus for a balanced examination of Lee in all his complexity. (688 pages, 8.25" x 5.25" Paperback)
While In the Hands of The Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. Winner of the 2005 Jefferson Davis Award. Sanders examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing on such camps as Elmira, Rock Island, Andersonville, Florence, and others. Recipient of the 2005 Jefferson Davis Award. (390 pages, 9.5” x 6.4”, hardcover)
| Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865, by Thomas Lawrence Connelly. Follows the Army of Tennessee from the renewed offensive of General Braxton Bragg in late 1862, to the lingering days of retreat and defeat in North Carolina in 1865. Recipient of the 1971 Jefferson Davis Award. (9.25"x6.25", 558 pages, Paperback) |
| Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust. Drawing on eloquent primary sources, this work shows the upheaval caused by the Civil War, the disintegration of slavery, and the disappearance of prewar prosperity in the lives of the Confederacy's elite women. Recipient of the 1996 Jefferson Davis Award. (326 pages, 9.5"x6.5", hardcover) |
| Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend, by James I. Robertson, Jr. The definitive biography from the foremost expert on Lt. General Thomas J. Jackson. Winner of numerous awards, and a must-have for every Civil War home library. Recipient of the 1997 Jefferson Davis Award. (950 pages, 9.5"x6.25"x2.5", hardcover) |
| Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. The President of the Confederate States of America is often perceived as more a symbol than a man. With elegant writing and an impressive depth of research, William J. Cooper, Jr. gives us a fully realized biography of this complex figure. Recipient of the 2000 Jefferson Davis Award. (Hardback, 822 pages, 8"x5.25"x1.75") |
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On June 3, 1970, The Museum of the Confederacy inaugurated a literary awards program to recognize outstanding scholarship on the Confederacy and the Confederate period. Three awards were created and given for the first time in 1971: the Jefferson Davis Award for outstanding narrative works; the Founders Award for outstanding editing of primary source documents; and the Award of Merit for outstanding articles. (The Museum ceased presenting the Award of Merit after 1980 and made the Founders Award biennial in 1988.) “The primary purpose in creating these awards,” explained the Museum’s director in 1973, “is to stimulate continued interest in scholarly research and serious writing about one of the most important periods in American history.”
The awards consist of a framed certificate bearing a red wax seal made from the original Great Seal of the Confederacy. Thanks to the generosity of several anonymous donors, the Davis Award also carries a modest cash prize. The winners are chosen by independent panels of leading scholars, many of whom are past recipients of the awards. The Great Seal and the peer review have made the Jefferson Davis and Founders Awards among the most prestigious and desirable awards for Civil War scholars.
To nominate books for the awards, the publisher or author must send a copy directly to each of the three judges for the appropriate award and a fourth copy to the Museum’s award administrator.
A PDF of the updated Award announcement form is available here and includes the award criteria, nomination deadlines, the names and addresses of the judges, and contact information.
To receive the announcement via an email attachment or to learn more about the awards, write to: jcoski@moc.org.
2009 Jefferson Davis Award nominations
* James Alexander Baggett, Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee’s Union Cavalry in the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press)
* Suzy Barile. Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General (Hillsborough, NC: Eno Publishers)
* Gordon B. Bonan, The Edge of Mosby’s Sword: The Life of Confederate Colonel William Henry Chapman (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)
* Russell S. Bonds, War Like the Thunder Bolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta (Westholme Publishing)
* Philip Caudill, Moss Bluff Rebel: A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War (Texas A &M University Press)
* Marc Egnal, Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War (Hill & Wang)
* Paul Escott What Shall We Do with the Negro?" Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America (University of Virginia Press)
* Donald S. Frazier, Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 (State House Press)
* Earl J. Hess, In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat (University of North Carolina Press)
* John Majewski, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (University of North Carolina Press)
* Jeffrey W. McClurken Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia (University of Virginia Press)
* Scott L. Mingus, Sr., The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863 (Louisiana State University Press)
* Barton A. Myers, Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community 1861-1865 (Louisiana State University Press)
* Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas (Louisiana State University Press)
* William Garrett Piston and Thomas P. Sweeney, Portraits in Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War (University of Arkansas Press)
* Christian G. Samito, Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era (Cornell University Press)
* Judith Kelleher Schafer, Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans (Louisiana State University Press)
* Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press)
* Thomas M. Settles, John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal (Louisiana State University Press)
* William L. Shea, Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (University of North Carolina Press)
* Bruce H. Stewart, Jr., Invisible Hero: Patrick R. Cleburne (Mercer University Press)
* Daniel E. Sutherland, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press)
* Paul Taylor, Orlando M. Poe: Civil War General and Great Lakes Engineer (Kent State University Press)
* Joan C. Waugh, U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (University of North Carolina Press)
* C. L. Webster III, Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States (Edinborough Press)
Previous Winners of the Awards
Jefferson Davis Award
2008: Joseph T. Glatthaar, General Lee's Army From Victory to Collapse (Free Press)
2007: Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Reading the Man:A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
2006: Eric H. Walther, William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press)
2005: Charles W. Sanders, Jr., While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press)
2004: Richard Lowe, Walker’s Texas Division, C.S.A. (Louisiana State University Press)
2003: G. Ward Hubbs, Guarding Greensboro (University of Georgia Press)
2002: George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (University of North Carolina Press)
2001: William W. Freehling, The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (Oxford University Press)
2000: William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American (Knopf)
1999: Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (Kent State University Press)
1998: J. Tracy Power, Lee’s Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (University of North Carolina Press)
1997: James I. Robertson, Jr., Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend (MacMillan)
1996: Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention (University of North Carolina Press)
1995: David H. Donald, Lincoln (Simon & Schuster)
1994: William C. Davis, “A Government of Our Own” (Free Press)
1993: Robert M. Browning, Jr., From Cape Charles to Cape Fear (University Press of Alabama)
1992: T. Michael Parrish, Richard Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
1991: William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis (HarperCollins)
1990: Mary A. DeCredico, Patriotism for Profit (University of North Carolina Press)
1989: George C. Rable, Civil Wars (University of Illinois Press)
1988: Thomas E. Schott, Alexander Stephens of Georgia (Louisiana State University Press)
1987: William C. Harris, Williams Woods Holden (Louisiana State University Press)
1986: Richard Beringer, et. al., Why the South Lost the Civil War (University of Georgia Press)
1985: Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond (New York University Press)
1984: Walter L. Buenger, Secession and the Union in Texas (University of Texas Press)
1983: Michael Wayne, The Reshaping of Plantation Society (University of Illinois Press)
1982: Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor (Oxford University Press)
1981: Michael B. Chesson, Richmond After the War, 1865-1900 (Library of Virginia)
1980: James Lee McDonough, Stones River: The Bloody Winter in Tennessee (University of Tennessee Press)
1979: Stephen Z. Starr, The Union Cavalry in the Civil War (Louisiana State University Press)
1978: Michael C. C. Adams, Our Masters the Rebels (Harvard University Press)
1977: Joseph H. Parks, Joseph E. Brown of Georgia (University of Georgia Press)
1976: Herman Hattaway, General Stephen D. Lee (University of Mississippi Press)
1975: Bell I. Wiley, Confederate Women (Greenwood Press)
1974: William C. Davis, Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol (Louisiana State University Press)
1973: Thomas L. Connelly and Archer Jones, The Politics of Command (Louisiana State University Press)
1972: Thomas B. Alexander and Richard Beringer, The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress (Vanderbilt University Press)
1971: Thomas L. Connelly, Autumn of Glory (Louisiana State University Press)
1970: Frank E. Vandiver, Their Tattered Flags (Harper’s Magazine Press)
Founder’s Award
2007-2008: Charles W. Mitchell, Maryland Voices of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2005-6: Kimberly Harrison, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond (Louisiana State University Press)
2003-4: Lynda L. Crist, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 11 (Louisiana State University Press)
2001-2: Michael B. Chesson and Leslie J. Roberts, Exile in Richmond (University Press of Virginia)
1999-2000: Charles F. Bryan, Jr. and Nelson D. Lankford, Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey (Free Press)
1997-8: Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War (University Press of Virginia)
1995-6: Lynda L. Crist, et. al., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 8 (Louisiana State University Press)
1993-4: Ira Berlin, et. al., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, series I, vol. II (Cambridge University Press)
1991-2: Russell Duncan, Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (University of Georgia Press)
1989-90: Gary W. Gallagher, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander (University of North Carolina Press)
1987-8: Carol Bleser, Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond (Oxford University Press) and John Rozier, The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird (University of Georgia Press)
1986: Richard Harwell and Philip N. Racine, The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer’s Account of Sherman’s Last Campaigns (University of Tennessee Press)
1985: Ira Berlin, et. al., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, series I, vol. I (Cambridge University Press)
1984: Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, No Chariot Let Down (Norton)
1983: LeRoy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins, The Papers of Andrew Johnson, vol. VI (University of Tennessee Press)
1982: John Y. Simon, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vols. IX and X (Southern Illinois)
1981: Charles C. McLaughlin and Charles E. Beveridge, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, vol. II (Johns Hopkins University Press)
1980: James I. Robertson, Jr., An Index-Guide to the Southern Historical Society Papers (KTO Press)
1979: David C. Roller and Robert W. Twyman, The Encyclopedia of Southern History (Louisiana State University Press)
1978: William A. Frassanito, Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day (Scribner’s)
1977: John W. Blassingame, Slave Testimony (University of North Carolina Press)
1975: Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Louisiana State University Press)
1974: John Hammond Moore, The Juhl Letters to the Charleston Courier (University of Georgia Press)
1972: Robert Ranson Myers, Children of Pride (Yale University Press)
1971: Haskell M. Monroe, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. I. (Louisiana State University Press)
1970: Warren Ripley, Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War (A & W Promotional)
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