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2024 Submission
pam waterman
2024 Submission
pam waterman
John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement
2024 Submission
pam waterman
2024 Submission
pam waterman
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black Banker
2021 submission
pam waterman
2021 submission
pam waterman
Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion
2020 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2020 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
2018 Submission
pam waterman
2018 Submission
pam waterman
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America
2021 Submission
pam waterman
2021 Submission
pam waterman
Say It Louder! Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum American
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston
2023 Shortlist
pam waterman
2023 Shortlist
pam waterman
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2019 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
What Truth Sounds Like
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2022 Shortlist
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado
2020 Submission
Michelle Samplin-Salgado