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The Wiley-Silver Book Prize was created by the University of Mississippi in 2011, as an honor for exemplary writing in Civil War history. The award is named after authors Bell I. Wiley and James W. Silver. The winners of the award are usually given two thousand dollars along with the honor.[1]
List of Previous Winners:
2012 - Dr. Barbara Gannon for her book The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic.[2]
2013 - Dr. Glenn David Brasher for his book The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight for Freedom.[3]
2014 - Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier for her book Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia[4]
2015 - Dr. Shauna Devine for her book Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science.[5]
2017 - Matthew Hulbert for his book The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. [6]
2018 - Matthew Stanley for his book The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America.[7]
2019 - Erin Mauldin for her book Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South.[8]
2020 - Christopher R. Mortenson for his book Politician in Uniform: General Lew Wallace and the Civil War.[9]
2021 - Ariel Ron for his book Grassroots Leviathan: Northern Agricultural Reform in the Slaveholding Republic.[10]
2022 - Kevin Waite for his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire.[11]
2023 - David K. Thomson for his book Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union.[12]
References
edit- ^ "The Wiley-Silver Book Prize".
- ^ "The Won Cause".
- ^ "The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation".
- ^ "Nature's Civil War".
- ^ "Learning from the Wounded".
- ^ "The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory".
- ^ "The Loyal West".
- ^ "The Loyal West".
- ^ "Politician in Uniform".
- ^ Ron, Ariel (2020). Grassroots Leviathan. doi:10.1353/book.79043. ISBN 978-1-4214-3932-7.
- ^ "West of Slavery".
- ^ "Bonds of War".
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