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MAAH Stone Book Award

The Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award is an annual prize that encourages scholarship and writing within the field of African American history and culture by awarding a $50,000 winning prize and two $10,000 finalist prizes for exceptional adult non-fiction books written in a literary style.

The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
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2023 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList

Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship The Shattering: America in the 1960s An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
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2022 MAAH Stone Book Award Shortlist

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s
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2021 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award Shortlist

Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America
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2020 MAAH Stone Book Award Short List

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
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2019 MAAH Stone Book Award Short List

Chester B. Himes: A Biography Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
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2018 MAAH Stone Book Award Short List

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