Congratulations to Alec Ferzackerley Hickmott, Winner of  The Southern Historical Association’s JACK TEMPLE KIRBY AWARD, 2017.

The award is given to the “the best article published in southern agricultural or environmental history over a two-year period” for “Black Land, Black Capital: Rural Development in the Shadows of the Sunbelt South” published in The Journal of African American History 101 (Fall 2016).


And to Michelle R. Scott Winner of The Association of Black Women Historians’ LETITIA WOODS BROWN ARTICLE PRIZE, 2017.

The prize is awarded annually to “the best article in African American Women’s History” for “These Women Do Business with a Capital B: The Griffin Sisters As Black Businesswomen in Early Vaudeville” published in The Journal of African American History 101 (Fall 2016).