JAMES F. SULZBY AWARD
The Alabama Historical Association sponsors the James F. Sulzby Award to honor the founding president and longtime secretary of the Association. The prize recognizes excellence in a book published in the previous two years that has made the most significant contribution to greater knowledge and appreciation of Alabama history.
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The next award will be given in 2026.
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List of Sulzby Award winners:
2024
Morales, R. Isabela. Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2022.
2022
Huff, Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Carole Ann King. Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682 – 1950. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
2019
Ashmore, Susan Youngblood and Lisa Lindquist-Dorr. Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.
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2017
Haveman, Christopher D. Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
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2015
​Downs, Matthew L. Transforming the South: Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
2013
Maxwell, Jerry H. The Perfect Lion: The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011.
2011
Reverby, Susan M. Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
2009
Diouf, Sylviane A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. New York: The Oxford University Press, 2007.
2005
Flynt, Wayne. Alabama in the Twentieth Century.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
2003
Thornton, J. Mills. Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
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Fitzgerald, Michael W. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890. Baton Rouge: Lousiana University Press, 2003.
2001
Manis, Andrew. A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
1999
Dupre, Daniel S. Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
1997
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
1995
Rogers, William Warren; Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt. Alabama, The History of a Deep South State. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.
1993
Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. University of Alabama Press, 1992.
1991
Flynt, Wayne. Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.
1989
Hamilton, Virginia Van der Veer. Lister Hill: Statesman from the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
1987
Sims, George E. The Little Man's Big Friend: James E. Folsom in Alabama Politics, 1946-1958. University of Alabama Press, 1985.
1985
Ellison, Rhoda. Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years. University of Alabama Press.
1983
Johnson, Evans C. Oscar W. Underwood: A Political Biography. LSU Press, 1980.
1981
Mathis, Ray. John Horry Dent: South Carolina Aristocrat on the Alabama Frontier. University of Alabama Press, 1979.
1979
Thornton, J. Mills, III. Politics and Power in a Slave Society. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
