Finalists for the David J. Weber Book Prize

Book Prize

2024

Ghosts of Crook Country: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

Russell Cobb

Penguin Random House, 2024

2024

Raid and Reconciliation: Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands

Brandon Morgan

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024

2023	The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands	Travis Jeffres	Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023
2022	Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands	Kelly Lytle Hernandez	New York: W.W. Norton, 2022
2022	Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas	Sam W. Haynes	New York: Basic Books, 2022
2021	*The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival*	Paul Conrad	Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
2020	The People's Revolt: Texas Populism and the Roots of American Liberalism	Gregg Cantrell	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020
2020	Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West	Susan Lee Johnson	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020
2019	Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1965-1941	Jessica Kim	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019
2019	Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917	Andrew Offenburger	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019
2018	Growing Up with the Country: Family, Face, and Nation after the Civil War	Kendra Taira Fields	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018
2018	*Redeeming la Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights*	Gabriela Gonzalez	New York: Oxford University Press, 2018
2017	A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century	Flannery Burke	Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 2017
2017	The INS on the Line: Immigration Law on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1917-1954	S. Deborah Kang	New York: Oxford University Press, 2017
2016	Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworkers Movement	Lori A. Flores	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016
2016	The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire	Karl Jacoby	New York: W.W. Norton, 2016
2015	West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands	Emily Lutenski	Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015
2015	From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century	John Weber	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015
2014	*The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico*	Raphael Folsom	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014
2014	Working Women into the Borderlands	Sonia Hernández	College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2014
2013	Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland	Geraldo L. Cadava	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013
2013	Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life	Andrew C. Isenberg	New York: Hill and Wang, 2013
2012	*From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement*	Matt Garcia	Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012
2012	*American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California*	Joshua Paddison	Berkeley: University of California Press and the Huntington Library, 2012
2011	*Federal Fathers and Mothers:* *A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933*	Cathleen Cahill	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
2011	*Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico*	Deborah Cohen	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
2010	*Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity*	Neil Foley	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010
2010	*Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community*	Monica Perales	Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010
2009	*Imaginary Lines, Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930*	Patrick Ettinger	Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009
2009	*Borderline Americans:* *Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands*	Katherine Benton-Cohen	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009
2008	*The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.- Mexican War*	Brian DeLay	New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008
2008	*Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War*	Thomas G. Andrew	Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008

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