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Non-fiction literary award
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award is a non-fiction literary award given by the
Phi Beta Kappa society , the oldest academic society of the
United States , for books that have made the most significant contributions to the humanities.
Albert William Levi won the first of these awards, in 1960.
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Winners
1960:
Albert William Levi , Philosophy and the Modern World (Indiana University Press)
1961:
W. T. Stace , Mysticism and Philosophy (J.B. Lippincott)
1962:
Herbert J. Muller , Freedom in the Ancient World (Harper & Brothers)
1963:
Richard Hofstadter ,
Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Knopf)
1964:
Thomas F. Gossett , Race: The History of An Idea in America (Southern Methodist University Press)
1965:
Howard Mumford Jones ,
O Strange New World: American Culture - The Formative Years (Viking Press)
1966:
John Herman Randall, Jr. , The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (Columbia University Press)
1967:
Robert Coles ,
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1968:
Winthrop D. Jordan , White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (University of North Carolina Press)
1969:
Peter Gay ,
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (Harper & Row)
1970:
Rollo May ,
Love and Will (Norton)
1971:
Charles A. Barker , American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850 (J.B. Lippincott)
1972:
John Rawls ,
A Theory of Justice (The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press )
1973:
Barrington Moore, Jr. , Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them (Beacon Press)
1974:
Frederic C. Lane , Venice: A Maritime Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press)
1975:
Marshall Hodgson , The Venture of Islam (University of Chicago Press)
1976:
Paul Fussell ,
The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford University Press)
1977:
Eugen Weber , Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford University Press)
1978:
Bruce Kuklick , The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Yale University Press)
1979:
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , The Printing Press As an Agent of Change , Volumes I and II (Cambridge University Press)
1980:
Frank E. Manuel and
Fritzie P. Manuel , Utopian Thought in the Western World (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
1981:
George M. Fredrickson , White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (Oxford University Press)
1982:
Robert Nozick ,
Philosophical Explanations (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
1983:
Daniel Joseph Singal , The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (University of North Carolina Press)
1984:
David G. Roskies , Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard University Press)
1985:
Joel Williamson , The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Oxford University Press)
1986:
Benjamin I. Schwartz , The World of Thought in Ancient China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
1987:
Alfred W. Crosby ,
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge University Press)
1988:
David Montgomery ,
The Fall of the House of Labor (Cambridge University Press)
1989:
Peter Brown , The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early Christianity (Columbia University Press)
1990:
William L. Vance , America’s Rome, Volumes I and II (Yale University Press)
1991:
Carl N. Degler , In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford University Press)
1992:
Gordon S. Wood ,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)
1993:
Theda Skocpol , Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
1994:
David Levering Lewis ,
W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Henry Holt and Company)
1995:
Caroline Walker Bynum , The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 (Columbia University Press)
1996:
Eloise Quiñones Keber , Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript (University of Texas Press)
1997:
Steven B. Smith , Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (Yale University Press)
1998:
Jill Lepore , The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Alfred A. Knopf)
1999:
H.C. Erik Midelfort , A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford University Press)
2000:
Peter Novick ,
The Holocaust in American Life (Houghton Mifflin)
2001:
Debora Silverman , Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (Straus and Giroux)
2002:
Fredric L. Cheyette , Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell University Press)
2003:
David Freedberg , The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History (University of Chicago Press)
2004:
Jennifer Michael Hecht ,
The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press)
2005:
Isabel V. Hull , Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Cornell University Press)
2006:
Susan Scott Parrish , American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture)
2007:
David Brion Davis ,
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford University Press)
2008:
Leor Halevi , Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press)
2009:
Peter Trachtenberg , The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Company)
2010:
Susan M. Reverby , Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (University of North Carolina Press)
2011:
Timothy Snyder ,
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Basic Books)
2012:
Jay Rubenstein , Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse (Basic Books)
2013:
Timothy Egan , Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2014:
David Nirenberg , Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (W.W. Norton)
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2015:
Joan Breton Connelly , The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It (Knopf)
2016:
E.M. Rose , The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford University Press)
2017:
Elizabeth Hinton , From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press)
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2018:
Mike Wallace , Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Oxford University Press)
2019:
Sarah E. Igo , The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press)
2020:
Sarah Seo , Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Harvard University Press)
2021:
Alice Baumgartner , South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War (Basic Books)
2022:
Tiya Miles , All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House)
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2023:
Deborah Cohen , Last Call at the Hotel Imperial (Random House)
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