Past winners and honorees of the David J. Langum Sr. Prizes. • 2001 (
Historical Fiction Prize): No Award • 2001 (
Legal History):
Elizabeth Urban Alexander,
Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Louisiana State University Press) ---- • 2002 (
Historical Fiction Prize): No Award • 2002 (
Legal History):
Stuart Banner,
The Death Penalty: An American History (Harvard University Press) • 2002 (
Legal History):
Lawrence M. Friedman,
American Law in the 20th Century (Yale University Press) ---- • 2003 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Robert J. Begiebing,
Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction: A Novel (University Press of New England) • 2003 (
Legal History):
Robert J. Cottrol,
Raymond T. Diamond, and
Leland B. Ware,
Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution (University Press of Kansas) ---- • 2004 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Linda Busby Parker,
Seven Laurels: A Novel (Southeast Missouri State University Press) • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Sanora Babb,
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel (University of Oklahoma Press) • 2004 (
Legal History):
John M. Ferren,
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge (University of North Carolina Press) ---- • 2005 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Peter Donahue,
Madison House: A Novel (Hawthorne Books) • 2005 (
Legal History):
Richard J. Ellis,
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (University Press of Kansas) • (Legal History Honorable Mention):
John W. Johnson,
Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy (Kansas University Press ---- • 2006 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Sheldon Russell,
Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush (University of Oklahoma Press) • 2006 (
Legal History):
Saul Cornell,
A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (Oxford University Press) • (Legal History Honorable Mention):
Carolyn N. Long,
Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures (University Press of Kansas) ---- • 2007 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Kurt Andersen,
Heyday (Random House) • 2007 (
Legal History):
Bruce J. Dierenfield,
The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (University Press of Kansas) ---- • 2008 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Kathleen Kent,
The Heretic’s Daughter (Little, Brown) • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Elisabeth Payne Rosen,
Hallam’s War (Unbridled Books) • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Jack Fuller,
Abbeville (Unbridled Books) • 2008 (
Legal History):
Ernest Freeberg,
Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (Harvard University Press) • (Legal History Honorable Mention):
Peter Charles Hoffer,
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr (University Press of Kansas) ---- • 2009 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Edward Rutherfurd,
New York: The Novel (Doubleday). • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, ''In the Lion's Den: A Novel of the Civil War'' (iUniverse) • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Jamie Ford,
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Random House) • 2009 (
Legal History): No Award ---- • 2010 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Ann Weisgarber,
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (Viking) • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Robin Oliveira,
My Name is Mary Sutter (Viking) • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Kelli Carmean,
Creekside: An Archeological Novel (University of Alabama Press) • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention): Jackson Taylor,
The Blue Orchard (Simon & Schuster) • 2010 (
Legal History):
Stephen C. Neff,
Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War ---- • 2011 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Julie Otsuka,
The Buddha in the Attic • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Geraldine Brooks, ''
Caleb's Crossing'' • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
John M. Archer,
After the Rain: A Novel of War and Coming Home • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
James Hoggard,
The Mayor’s Daughter • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Hugh Nissenson,
The Pilgrim: A Novel • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Sheila Ortiz-Taylor,
Homestead • (Historical Fiction Director’s Mention):
Shirley Reva Vernick,
The Blood Lie • 2011 (
Legal History):
Stuart Banner,
American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own • 2011 (
Legal History):
Joanna L. Grossman and
Lawrence M. Friedman,
Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America ---- • 2012 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Ron Rash,
The Cove • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Steve Wiegenstein,
Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • 2012 (
Legal History/Biography):
Samuel Walker,
Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians • (Legal History/Biography Honorable Mention):
R. Kent Newmyer,
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation ---- • 2013 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Gary Schanbacher,
Crossing Purgatory • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Christine Wade,
Seven Locks • 2013 (
Legal History/Biography):
Whitney Strub,
Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression • (Legal History/Biography Honorable Mention):
Alexander Wohl,
Father, Son, and Constitution: How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy ---- • 2014 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Kimberly Elkins,
What is Visible • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Catherine Bell,
Rush of Shadows • (Historical Fiction Director's Mention):
Laila Lalami, ''
The Moor's Account'' • 2014 (
Legal History/Biography):
Nathaniel Grow, ''Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption'' • (Legal History/Biography Honorable Mention):
Lori Sturdevant, ''Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women's Movement'' ---- • 2015 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Faith Sullivan,
Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse • (Historical Fiction Honorable Mention):
Meg Waite Clayton,
The Race for Paris • 2015 (
Legal History/Biography):
Leonard L. Richards,
Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment • (Legal History/Biography Honorable Mention):
Nancy Woloch,
A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s ---- • 2016 (
Historical Fiction Prize):
Michele Moore,
The Cigar Factory • (Historical Fiction Finalist):
Chad Dundas,
Champion of the World • 2016 (
Legal History/Biography):
Risa Goluboff,
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s • (Legal History/Biography Finalist):
Edward B. Foley,
Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States • (Legal History/Biography Finalist):
Charles F. Hobson,
The Great Yazoo Lands Sale: The Case of Fletcher v. Peck ---- • 2017 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Laurel Davis Huber,
The Velveteen Daughter • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Wiley Cash,
The Last Ballad • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Janet Benton,
Lilli de Jong • 2017 (
Legal History/Biography): Laura Kalman,
The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court ---- • 2018 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Louisa Hall,
Trinity • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Nick Dybek,
The Verdun Affair • 2018 (
Legal History/Biography): Kimberly M. Welch,
Black Litigants in the Antebellum South • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): John A. Fliter,
Child Labor in America: The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Christopher W. Schmidt,
The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era ---- • 2019 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Mark Barr,
Watershed • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Ann Weisgarber,
The Glovemaker • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Stephanie Marie Thornton,
American Princess: A Novel of the First Daughter Alice Roosevelt • 2019 (
Legal History/Biography): Sarah A. Seo,
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Jessica K. Lowe,
Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia ---- • 2020 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Jess Walter,
The Cold Millions • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Ron Nyren,
The Book of Lost Light • 2020 (
Legal History/Biography): Sara Mayeux,
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Richard B. Bernstein,
The Education of John Adams ---- • 2021 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Michael Punke,
Ridgeline • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Angela Jackson-Brown,
When the Stars Rain Down • 2021 (
Legal History/Biography): Mia Bay,
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Anna Lvovsky,
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall ---- • 2022 (
Historical Fiction Prize): Anthony Marra,
Mercury Pictures Presents • (Historical Fiction Finalist): Russell Banks,
The Magic Kingdom • 2022 (
Legal History/Biography): John Wood Sweet, ''The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America'' • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Brad Snyder,
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment ---- • 2023 (
Legal History/Biography): Dylan C. Penningroth,
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights ---- • 2024 (
Legal History/Biography): Stuart Banner,
The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States • (Legal History/Biography Finalist): Hendrik Hartog, ''Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys' Brotherhood Republic'' ==References==