Jefferson Davis Award Winners

The American Civil War Museum awards the annual Jefferson Davis Book Award for distinguished book-length narrative history or monograph. The award con ...more

Winners

	Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning 4.10 avg rating — 87 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery by Adam Rothman (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (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
	Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, The Peace They Forged by William C. Davis 4.16 avg rating — 607 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation by Caroline E. Janney 4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (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
	We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 by William J. Cooper Jr. 3.65 avg rating — 96 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865 by Paul Quigley 3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (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
	God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War by George C. Rable 4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel E. Sutherland 4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth by Joan Waugh 4.01 avg rating — 246 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse by Joseph T. Glatthaar 4.14 avg rating — 244 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor 4.04 avg rating — 349 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (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
	William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War by Eric H. Walther 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Charles W. Sanders Jr. 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (2005)	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
	Walker's Texas Division, C. S. A.: Greyhounds Of The Trans Mississippi by Richard G. Lowe 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community by G. Ward Hubbs it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Jefferson Davis Award (2003)	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
	Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! by George C. Rable 3.82 avg rating — 80 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling 3.74 avg rating — 215 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (2001)	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
	Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper Jr. 4.15 avg rating — 363 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 by Joseph L. Harsh 4.43 avg rating — 44 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1999)	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
	Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox by J. Tracy Power (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 38 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James I. Robertson Jr. 4.27 avg rating — 2,256 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1997)	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
	Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 3.93 avg rating — 1,126 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Lincoln by David Herbert Donald 4.18 avg rating — 45,404 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1995)	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 Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy by William C. Davis 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War by Robert M. Browning Jr. 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1993)	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
	Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie by T. Michael Parrish 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings Jefferson Davis 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
	Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour by William C. Davis 4.01 avg rating — 234 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1991)	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
	Patriotism for Profit: Georgia's Urban Entrepreneurs and the Confederate War Effort (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by Mary A. Decredico really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating Jefferson Davis 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
	Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism by George C. Rable 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings Jefferson Davis Award (1989)	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
	Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography by Thomas E. Schott 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings Jefferson Davis 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