The Organization of American Historians has announced its 2026 award winners, and among them is Brendan A. Shanahan (Yale University). He won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for his book Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865–1965 (Oxford University Press, 2025). This prize "is given annually by the . . . to the author of the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present."
An Honorable Mention went to Beth Lew-Williams (Princeton University) for John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law (Harvard University Press, 2025).
-- Karen Tani
