The OAH Executive Committee firmly denounces Florida's Department of Education's decision to reject AP African American Studies, leading to decisions to strip scholarship from the curriculum. (1/2)
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Organization of American Historians
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- The 2022 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, given annually for an author’s first scholarly book, goes to Gabriel Winant, @UChicagoHistory for his book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America @Harvard_Press x.com/UChicagoHistory
- The SCOTUS Dobbs v Jackson majority opinion rests on a flawed interpretation of the history of abortion criminalization in the US. Read the @The_OAH and @AHAhistorians statement here: oah.org/insights/posts….
- After much discussion and careful deliberation, the OAH Executive Committee voted yesterday to cancel #OAH20 in Washington, D.C. We thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we worked through this unprecedented situation. Read more: ow.ly/bvTp50yJPKW
- "Vibrant democratic societies are not built upon a foundation of selective depictions of the past, but rather demand critical examination of and grappling with the historical record.” Read the OAH response to White House Conference on American History - bit.ly/3j2QFVn
- The 2022 Friend of History Award goes to @madebyhistory for outstanding support of historical research and the public presentation of U.S. history. @washingtonpost @brianros1 @KathrynBrownell @car1ygoodman
- Replying to @The_OAHThe 2021 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award goes to Garrett Felber @garrett_felber for Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State uncpress.org/book/978146965…
- Replying to @The_OAHThe 2021 Frederick Jackson Turner Award is awarded to Johanna Fernandez, Baruch College of the City University of New York, for The Young Lords: A Radical History uncpress.org/book/978146965… @Baruch_Weissman
- The 2022 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender goes to @ProfJLMorgan of @NYUHistory for her book, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic @DukePress
- Replying to @The_OAHThe James A. Rawley Prize goes to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States #OAH20Awards @uncpressblog #twitterstorians
- Replying to @The_OAHThe Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History goes to Saidiya Hartman for the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history #OAH20Awards @wwnorton
- The winner of both the Lawrence W. Levine Award and the Darlene Clark Hine Award for 2022 is @TiyaMilesTAM, of @Harvard, for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake @randomhouse
- Replying to @The_OAHThe Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award, and the 2021 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History goes to Thavolia Glymph for The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation uncpress.org/book/978146965…
- We are sadden to learn that Gary Nash, emeritus professor of history at UCLA, leading scholar in the field of early American history, and former OAH President (1994-95), died earlier today. He will be missed.