Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book and Article Award

The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize and the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Article Prize are awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) for the best book, anthology, and article about African American women's history. The competition is open to all books and articles about African American women's history published since August 2012, including those written by members and non-members of ABWH.

Deadline for nomination: All application materials should be received by May 31, 2013.

Please send five copies of the entry, a letter of nomination, and any supporting material about the book, anthology, or article to:

ABWH

P. O. Box 7715

Silver Spring, MD 20907

Winners will be notified no later than August 30, 2013 and honored on October 5, 2013 at the annual ABWH luncheon during the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Convention in Jacksonville, FL. For additional information about the prize, contact committee chair Kenvi Phillips, PhD at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Darlene Clark Hine Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book in African American women's and gender history. The award is named for Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneer in African American women’s and gender history and past president of the OAH (2001-2002).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2012

Each entry must be published during the period January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012.

The award will be presented at the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California April 11-14,2013.

For more information visit: http://www.oah.org/awards/awards.hine.index.html