Williams Prize

Pinchback: America’s First Black Governor
(University Press of Mississippi) 

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
(University of North Carolina Press)

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States 

(Chicago University Press) 

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom  

(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

The Ballad of Robert Charles Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900

(UNC Press)

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

(Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)

Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960 

(Louisiana State University Press)

Yellow Fever, Race and Ecology in Nineteenth Century New Orleans

(Louisiana State University Press)

Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions

(Cambridge University Press)

Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America

(Princeton University Press)

The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

(Oxford University Press)

The Merchants’ Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South

(Cambridge University Press)

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

(Harvard University Press)

Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscape in New Orleans

(Louisiana State University Press)

Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828–1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History

(University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press)

Race, Sex and Social Order in Early New Orleans

(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Colonial Natchitoches: A Creole Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier

(Texas A&M University Press)

Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727–1834

(Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press)

New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City

(Louisiana State University Press)

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery

(Harvard University Press)

The Nation’s Crucible: The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

(Yale University Press)

A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861

(Louisiana State University Press)

François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana Before Lewis and Clark

(University of Missouri Press)

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880

(Louisiana State University Press)

Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke’s Louisiana

(University of North Carolina Press)

Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803

(Texas A&M University Press)

French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times

(Illinois University Press)

Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769–1803

(Duke University Press)

Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920–1963

(University of Georgia Press)

Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915–1972

(University of Georgia Press)

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana

(Louisiana State University Press)

Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement

(New York University Press)

Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

(University of North Carolina Press)

"Administration of the Illinois Country: The French Debate"

"'Fragments of This Erratic Race': American Indians in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans"

The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long

(Louisiana State University Press)

Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics

(Louisiana State University Press)

Texans on the Teche: The Texas Brigade at the Battles of Bisland and Irish Bend, April 12–14, 1863

Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War

(McGinty Publications)

"Privilege and Honor to Serve: The Free Black Militia of Spanish New Orleans"

The Canary Islanders of Louisiana

(Louisiana State University Press)

Lee’s Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia

(Louisiana State University)

"Cherchez les femmes: Some Glimpses of Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Louisiana"

"Getting Places in a Hurry: The Development of Aviation in Long-Era South Louisiana"

To Rule or Ruin: New Orleans Dock Workers’ Struggle for Control, 1902–1903

Louis William DuBourg: Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Bishop of Montauban, and Archbishop of Besancon, 1766–1833

(Loyola University Press)

"Men of Stability and Influence: The Regular Democrats of New Orleans"

Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935–1942

(Louisiana State University Press)

"The Decline of German Ethnicity in New Orleans, 1880–1930"

Grace King: A Southern Destiny

(Louisiana State University Press)

Wharf-Rats, Cutthroats and Thieves: The Louisiana Tigers, 1861–1862

Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862–1877

(Louisiana State University Press)

"Organized Crime in Louisiana History: Myth and Reality"

Petroleum, Pipelines, and Politics: The Pine Island Situation

John Fitzpatrick and Political Continuity in New Orleans, 1886–1899

Labor, Church, and the Sugar Establishment in Louisiana, 1887–1976

(Louisiana State University Press)

Cajuns, Conscripts, and the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment

(Princeton University Press)

Germans in Colonial Louisiana, The First Decade (1721–1732)

Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702–1711

(Museum of the City of Mobile)

"The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana: Some Preliminary Considerations"

Revolt in Louisiana: The Spanish Occupation, 1766–1770

(Louisiana State University Press)

Louisiana Reconstructed, 1862–1877

(Louisiana State University Press)

The Segregation Struggle in Louisiana 1862–1877

(University of Illinois Press)

"Huey Long and the Cotton Plan of 1931"