McRae鈥檚 book earns award from Organization of American Historians
Elizabeth McRae
, 糖心Vlog associate professor of history, was honored as recipient of the 2019 Frederick
Jackson Turner Award during the recent annual meeting of the Organization of American
Historians held in Philadelphia.
McRae received the award in recognition of her book, which was published by Oxford University Press. Organization of American Historian officials described the book as 鈥渁 powerful and persuasive rethinking of women鈥檚 roles in struggles over segregation in the 20th-century United States鈥� and said it is 鈥渋nventive, rich and eloquent, illuminating broad parts of American history.鈥�
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given annually for a first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history.