Merle Curti Award Winners

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Winners

	The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez 4.62 avg rating — 146 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State by Garrett Felber 4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester 4.06 avg rating — 62 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers 4.29 avg rating — 3,171 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor 4.47 avg rating — 66 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America by Sarah E. Igo really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 103 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 353 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper 4.42 avg rating — 207 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren 3.93 avg rating — 369 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture by Susanna L. Blumenthal 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 by Julie M. Weise 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development by Daniel Immerwahr 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston by Cornelia H. Dayton 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy by Kyle G. Volk 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists & Transatlantic Reform by W. Caleb McDaniel (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 by Alan Taylor 4.15 avg rating — 702 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France by Brett Rushforth (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 124 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression by Angus Burgin 4.09 avg rating — 106 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America by Susan J. Pearson 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie 4.11 avg rating — 799 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry 3.98 avg rating — 480 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore by Seth Rockman 4.09 avg rating — 312 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls 4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Vincent Brown 4.13 avg rating — 124 ratings Merle Curti Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen 4.15 avg rating — 1,383 ratings Merle Curti Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker 4.12 avg rating — 1,868 ratings Merle Curti Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation by Moon-Ho Jung 3.95 avg rating — 56 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson 3.77 avg rating — 325 ratings Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Dublin 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings Merle Curti Award for Social History (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars