Charles S. Sydnor Award Winners

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Winners

	Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South by Warren Eugene Milteer 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (2022)	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
	Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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 — 3,283 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 by Julio Capó, Jr. 4.16 avg rating — 51 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta by Alison Collis Greene 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation by Caroline E. Janney 4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin 3.98 avg rating — 53 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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 People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South by Laura F. Edwards 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands by Juliana Barr 3.80 avg rating — 167 ratings Charles S. Sydnor 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
	The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 4.08 avg rating — 80 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (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
	Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (2004)	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
	Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 by Jack Emerson Davis 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (2002)	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
	A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 by Claudio Saunt 3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (2000)	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 White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads) by Neil Foley 3.82 avg rating — 107 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1998)	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
	Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country by Stephanie McCurry 3.73 avg rating — 129 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1996)	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
	Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers by Michael K. Honey really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1994)	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 Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster 3.75 avg rating — 230 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1992)	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
	Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Allen Tullos 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1990)	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
	Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom by Peter Kolchin 4.14 avg rating — 70 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1988)	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
	Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880 by Pete Daniel 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1986)	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
	James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Southern Biography Series) by Drew Gilpin Faust 3.97 avg rating — 93 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1984)	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
	"Man Over Money": The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Bruce Palmer 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1982)	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
	Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard Beale Davis 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1980)	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
	Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction by Thomas C. Holt 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1978)	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
	American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan 4.12 avg rating — 3,400 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1976)	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 Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: A Study of the Influence of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861-1865 by Richard E. ALEXANDER, Thomas B. and Beringer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Charles S. Sydnor Award (1974)	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
	White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction by Allen W. Trelease 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1972)	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
	Populism to Progressivism in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Charles S. Sydnor Award (1970)	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 Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 by George Brown Tindall 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1968)	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
	Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Brown Thrasher Books) by Willie Lee Rose 4.01 avg rating — 69 ratings Charles S. Sydnor Award (1966)	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