The Lawrence W. Levine Award is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book in American cultural history.[1] The award is named for Professor Lawrence W. Levine, President of the OAH 1992–1993, who wrote extensively in the field. A committee of 5 members of the OAH, chosen annually by the President, makes the award. The winner receives $1000.
Source: Organization of American Historians
| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Daniel R. Mandell[2] | Truman State University | Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 | |
| 2009 | Peggy Pascoe | University of Oregon | What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America | |
| 2010 | Kathleen M. Brown[3] | University of Pennsylvania | Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America | |
| 2011 | Heather Murray[4] | University of Ottawa | Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America | |
| 2012 | Michael Willrich | Brandeis University | Pox: An American History | |
| 2013 | Adria L. Imada | University of California, San Diego | Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire | |
| 2014 | Shawn Michelle Smith | At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen | ||
| 2015 | Allyson Hobbs | Stanford University | A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life | |
| 2016 | Benjamin Looker | Saint Louis University | A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America | |
| 2017 | John W. Troutman | University of Louisiana, Lafayette & National Museum of American History | Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music | |
| 2018 | Cary Cordova | University of Texas, Austin | The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco | |
| 2019 | Monica Muñoz Martinez | Brown University | The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas | |
| 2020 | Erik Seeman | State University of New York at Buffalo | Speaking with the Dead in Early America | |
| 2021 | Marcia Chatelain | Georgetown University | ||
| 2022 | Tiya Alicia Miles | Harvard University | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | |
| 2023 | James Zarsadiaz | University of San Francisco | Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. |