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John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Deadline: October 15, 2025 (by midnight, EST)

The Jackson Prize was established to encourage and reward American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience. The prize, which carries an award of $500 to the author, is administered by the Association of American Geographers. In any given cycle, the J.B. Jackson Prize Committee may also select a second title from the  pool of nominations to be recognized with an Honorable Mention.

Eligibility: 

J.B. Jackson and his friends established the prize to recognize American geographers who write serious but popular books about the human geography of the contemporary United States. The prize is restricted to sole- and dual-authored books written by geographers, with preference given to those by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Textbooks, dissertations, edited collections, and articles are ineligible. Special consideration will be given to books that are carefully designed, appropriately illustrated, and physically appealing. The Selection Committee reserves the right to make no award in a particular year. Awards are announced in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Books published for the first time in English, in any country, between October of the previous year and September of the current year are now eligible for the award. Please submit your book for consideration for only one of the AAG’s three book awards (i.e., J.B. Jackson Prize, Globe Book Award, or Meridian Book Award).

As with all other AAG awards, eligibility also rests on the candidate being in compliance with the AAG Professional Conduct Policy. Nominations may be rescinded, and the award may also be revoked for any candidate or awardee who is found in violation of the AAG’s Professional Conduct Policy.

Submissions: 

Nomination statements (two-page maximum length) should provide full contact information for the author(s) and the nominator(s), including email addresses, and should document the ways the nominated work contributes to conveying insights of professional geography to a lay audience.

Please ship four copies of each nominated book to:

American Association of Geographers

Attn: J.B. Jackson Prize

1701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 325

Washington, DC 20006

Nominated books must arrive at AAG headquarters by the deadline to be considered eligible.

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About the Jackson Prize: 

John Brinckerhoff Jackson founded the magazine Landscape in 1951 and remained its owner and editor until 1968. After he retired as Editor he spent more than a decade writing about landscape and teaching celebrated courses in the history of vernacular landscapes at Berkeley and Harvard. The Jackson Prize of the AAG is dedicated to encouraging the kind of thinking and writing to which J. B. Jackson devoted much of his life: to encourage Americans to look thoughtfully at the human geography of their own country; to try to understand how that geography came to be and what it signifies; and to convey that understanding to the public at large.

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2025

James Buckley

 James Michael Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024). 

A deeply researched and well-written account of the connections between the lumber industry in northern California and the building of San Francisco. Drawing on cultural and economic geography, as well as architectural and environmental history, James Buckley traces the links between redwood lumber camps and sawmills to lumber yards on the docks of San Francisco and construction of wooden housing in the city. Throughout the book, the author embeds his analysis in the lives and landscapes of production and consumption: the types of ordinary, everyday spaces and places that had fascinated writer, artist, and founder of Landscape magazine J.B. Jackson, for whom this award is named. Beautifully illustrated with newly drawn maps at different scales and historic photographs, City of Wood is a magnificent achievement, reminding us that city building depended on the bounty of nature, capitalist enterprise, and prodigious labor. The book informs and shapes our understanding of the construction of towns and cities across North America and beyond.

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2025 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James Buckley

2025 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

 James Michael Buckley, City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024). 

A deeply researched and well-written account of the connections between the lumber industry in northern California and the building of San Francisco. Drawing on cultural and economic geography, as well as architectural and environmental history, James Buckley traces the links between redwood lumber camps and sawmills to lumber yards on the docks of San Francisco and construction of wooden housing in the city. Throughout the book, the author embeds his analysis in the lives and landscapes of production and consumption: the types of ordinary, everyday spaces and places that had fascinated writer, artist, and founder of Landscape magazine J.B. Jackson, for whom this award is named. Beautifully illustrated with newly drawn maps at different scales and historic photographs, City of Wood is a magnificent achievement, reminding us that city building depended on the bounty of nature, capitalist enterprise, and prodigious labor. The book informs and shapes our understanding of the construction of towns and cities across North America and beyond.

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2025

Yolonda Youngs

Yolonda Youngs, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024). 

Based on an extraordinary amount of research in vast collections of postcards, Youngs shows how the visual image of the Grand Canyon has been shaped and remade in the public mind. She draws on cultural geography and landscape analysis to make her case, demonstrating her field knowledge of the dramatic physical geography of the Grand Canyon. Appropriately, her book is beautifully illustrated with many postcard views and historic images, as well as clearly drawn maps of viewpoints. In using postcards as evidence, the committee felt, Youngs reflected J.B. Jackson’s love of American popular culture. Framing Nature makes a substantive, informed, and novel contribution to cultural landscape analysis, and informs our understanding of the transformation of one of the world’s greatest natural landscapes into a national and environmental icon.   

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2025 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Yolonda Youngs

2025 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Yolonda Youngs, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024). 

Based on an extraordinary amount of research in vast collections of postcards, Youngs shows how the visual image of the Grand Canyon has been shaped and remade in the public mind. She draws on cultural geography and landscape analysis to make her case, demonstrating her field knowledge of the dramatic physical geography of the Grand Canyon. Appropriately, her book is beautifully illustrated with many postcard views and historic images, as well as clearly drawn maps of viewpoints. In using postcards as evidence, the committee felt, Youngs reflected J.B. Jackson’s love of American popular culture. Framing Nature makes a substantive, informed, and novel contribution to cultural landscape analysis, and informs our understanding of the transformation of one of the world’s greatest natural landscapes into a national and environmental icon.   

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2024

Michael Dear

Border Witness: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Through Film by Michael Dear (University of California Press, 2023) is a masterfully written book that uses film to narrate the human and landscape geographies of the US-Mexico border region. It convinces the reader to consider “border film” a vibrant genre and reviews a century of film to illuminate the communities, spaces, and identities that emerge in a dynamic geographical zone. Both academics and non-academics will appreciate Dear’s thorough research, insights on timely issues, nice illustrations, and wonderful prose. This is a book that is only possible when decades of research and fieldwork slowly marinate into a rich, deep study.

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2024 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Michael Dear

2024 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Border Witness: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Through Film by Michael Dear (University of California Press, 2023) is a masterfully written book that uses film to narrate the human and landscape geographies of the US-Mexico border region. It convinces the reader to consider “border film” a vibrant genre and reviews a century of film to illuminate the communities, spaces, and identities that emerge in a dynamic geographical zone. Both academics and non-academics will appreciate Dear’s thorough research, insights on timely issues, nice illustrations, and wonderful prose. This is a book that is only possible when decades of research and fieldwork slowly marinate into a rich, deep study.

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2024

Kevin Patrick

Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest by Kevin Patrick (Rowman & Littlefield, Stackpole Books Division, 2023) creates a wonderfully informed, nuanced, and thoughtful meditation on a small patch of woods outside Indiana, PA. Inspired by Thoreau’s Walden, Patrick explores the relationship between people and place, weaving together natural history, cultural history, the seasons, and his own reflections. The book demonstrates that a good geographer can take the most unassuming landscape and spin a tale about it, offering deep insights about connections that transcend time and space. The book is presented in an easy and enjoyable prose style, and it is accompanied by beautiful and evocative color photographs.

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2024 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Kevin Patrick

2024 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest by Kevin Patrick (Rowman & Littlefield, Stackpole Books Division, 2023) creates a wonderfully informed, nuanced, and thoughtful meditation on a small patch of woods outside Indiana, PA. Inspired by Thoreau’s Walden, Patrick explores the relationship between people and place, weaving together natural history, cultural history, the seasons, and his own reflections. The book demonstrates that a good geographer can take the most unassuming landscape and spin a tale about it, offering deep insights about connections that transcend time and space. The book is presented in an easy and enjoyable prose style, and it is accompanied by beautiful and evocative color photographs.

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2023

Mrill Ingram

Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022) provides a thoughtful and carefully crafted ode to landscapes that few of us stop to consider, even though we experience them daily. Ingram counsels the reader to rethink abandoned lots and other ignored slices of land, reconceptualizing them as “orphaned” spaces worthy of love and care. Clearly written and finely illustrated with numerous maps and color photographs, Loving Orphaned Space is structured around three case studies where art-science collaborations bring orphaned spaces to life.

Ingram uses each fascinating example — an abandoned gas station lot on Chicago’s South Side, a hidden and channelized reach of the Bronx River, and stormwater basins in Fargo, North Dakota — to illustrate a variety of themes in cultural geography. By attending to overlooked and disconnected spaces as containers for story and relationship, she offers gentle wisdom about the consequences and meanings of deindustrialization, disinvestment, and neglect. Further, by focusing on community collaborations that “reject the void” and create meaning in orphaned space, the book orients readers toward hope, action, and attention.

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2023 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Mrill Ingram

2023 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Loving Orphaned Space: The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022) provides a thoughtful and carefully crafted ode to landscapes that few of us stop to consider, even though we experience them daily. Ingram counsels the reader to rethink abandoned lots and other ignored slices of land, reconceptualizing them as “orphaned” spaces worthy of love and care. Clearly written and finely illustrated with numerous maps and color photographs, Loving Orphaned Space is structured around three case studies where art-science collaborations bring orphaned spaces to life.

Ingram uses each fascinating example — an abandoned gas station lot on Chicago’s South Side, a hidden and channelized reach of the Bronx River, and stormwater basins in Fargo, North Dakota — to illustrate a variety of themes in cultural geography. By attending to overlooked and disconnected spaces as containers for story and relationship, she offers gentle wisdom about the consequences and meanings of deindustrialization, disinvestment, and neglect. Further, by focusing on community collaborations that “reject the void” and create meaning in orphaned space, the book orients readers toward hope, action, and attention.

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2022

John Harner

John Harner for Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs, (University Press of Colorado, 2021) triumphs as an accessibly written, wonderfully illustrated historical geography of a distinctive American place. Dedicated to Peirce Lewis, the book explores how Colorado Springs profited from its singular physical setting as well as its highly distinctive cultural evolution.

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2022 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John Harner

2022 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John Harner for Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs, (University Press of Colorado, 2021) triumphs as an accessibly written, wonderfully illustrated historical geography of a distinctive American place. Dedicated to Peirce Lewis, the book explores how Colorado Springs profited from its singular physical setting as well as its highly distinctive cultural evolution.

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2021

Adam Mandelman

Adam Mandelman for The Place With No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana State University Press

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2021 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Adam Mandelman

2021 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Adam Mandelman for The Place With No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana State University Press

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2020

Robert Lemon

Robert Lemon for The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City, University of Illinois Press

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2020 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Robert Lemon

2020 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Robert Lemon for The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City, University of Illinois Press

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2019

David Havlick

David Havlick for Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration, University of Chicago Press

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2019 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David Havlick

2019 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David Havlick for Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration, University of Chicago Press

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2018

Stephen Hornsby

Stephen Hornsby for Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps, University of Chicago Press

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2018 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Stephen Hornsby

2018 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Stephen Hornsby for Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps, University of Chicago Press

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2018

Terence Young

Terence Young for Heading Out: A HIstory of American Camping, Cornell University Press

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2018 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Terence Young

2018 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Terence Young for Heading Out: A HIstory of American Camping, Cornell University Press

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2017

Lisa Benton-Short

Lisa Benton-Short for The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space, University of Toronto Press

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2017 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Lisa Benton-Short

2017 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Lisa Benton-Short for The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space, University of Toronto Press

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2016

Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M

Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M. Gibson for Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century, Louisiana State University Press

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2016 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M

2016 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M. Gibson for Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century, Louisiana State University Press

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2015

Randall K. Wilson

Randall K. Wilson for America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield

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2015 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Randall K. Wilson

2015 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Randall K. Wilson for America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield

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2014

Anne Kelly Knowles

Anne Kelly Knowles, Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868, University of Chicago Press

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2014 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Anne Kelly Knowles

2014 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Anne Kelly Knowles, Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868, University of Chicago Press

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2013

James "Pete" Shortridge

James “Pete” Shortridge for Kansas City and How it Grew, 1822-2011, University Press of Kansas

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2013 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James "Pete" Shortridge

2013 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James “Pete” Shortridge for Kansas City and How it Grew, 1822-2011, University Press of Kansas

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2012

Jan Nijman

Jan Nijman for Miami: Mistress of the Americas, University of Pennsylvania Press.

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2012 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Jan Nijman

2012 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Jan Nijman for Miami: Mistress of the Americas, University of Pennsylvania Press.

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2011

Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin

Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin for Field Guide to California Agriculture, University of California Press.

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2011 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin

2011 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin for Field Guide to California Agriculture, University of California Press.

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2010

Patrick McGreevy

Patrick McGreevy for Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America, State University Press of New York (Albany).

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2010 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Patrick McGreevy

2010 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Patrick McGreevy for Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America, State University Press of New York (Albany).

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2009

Blake Gumprecht

Blake Gumprecht for The American College Town. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

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2009 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Blake Gumprecht

2009 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Blake Gumprecht for The American College Town. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

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2008

Eric D. Olmanson

Eric D. Olmanson for The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies, Ohio University Press.
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2008 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Eric D. Olmanson

2008 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize
Eric D. Olmanson for The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies, Ohio University Press.
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2007

Arthur J. Krim

Arthur J. Krim for Route 66: Iconography of an American Highway, George Thompson Publishers.

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2007 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Arthur J. Krim

2007 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Arthur J. Krim for Route 66: Iconography of an American Highway, George Thompson Publishers.

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2006

Craig Colten

Craig Colten for An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, Louisiana State University Press.

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2006 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Craig Colten

2006 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Craig Colten for An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, Louisiana State University Press.

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2005

Donald W. Meinig

Donald W. Meinig for Global America, 1915-2000. volume four of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Yale University Press

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2005 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Donald W. Meinig

2005 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Donald W. Meinig for Global America, 1915-2000. volume four of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Yale University Press

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2004

Peirce F. Lewis

Peirce F. Lewis for New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, Center for American Places in association with University of Virginia Press.

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2004 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Peirce F. Lewis

2004 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Peirce F. Lewis for New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, Center for American Places in association with University of Virginia Press.

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2003

Daniel D. Arreola

Daniel D. Arreola for Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province, University of Texas Press.

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2003 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Daniel D. Arreola

2003 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Daniel D. Arreola for Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province, University of Texas Press.

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2002

John A. Jakle

John A. Jakle for City Lights: Illuminating the American Night, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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2002 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John A. Jakle

2002 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John A. Jakle for City Lights: Illuminating the American Night, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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2001

David B. Lowenthal

David B. Lowenthal for George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, University of Washington Press.

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2001 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David B. Lowenthal

2001 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David B. Lowenthal for George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, University of Washington Press.

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2000

Blake Gumprecht

Blake Gumprecht for The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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2000 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Blake Gumprecht

2000 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Blake Gumprecht for The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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1999

Charles S. Aiken

Charles S. Aiken for The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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1999 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Charles S. Aiken

1999 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Charles S. Aiken for The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War, Johns Hopkins University Press.

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1998

Kenneth E. Foote

Kenneth E. Foote for Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, University of Texas Press.

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1998 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Kenneth E. Foote

1998 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Kenneth E. Foote for Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, University of Texas Press.

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1997

Richard Francaviglia

Richard Francaviglia for Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image-Building in Small Town America, University of Iowa Press.

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1997 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Richard Francaviglia

1997 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Richard Francaviglia for Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image-Building in Small Town America, University of Iowa Press.

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1996

David J. Wishart

David J. Wishart for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, University of Nebraska Press.

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1996 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David J. Wishart

1996 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David J. Wishart for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, University of Nebraska Press.

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1995

Paul Groth

Paul Groth for Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in The United States, University of California Press.

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1995 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Paul Groth

1995 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Paul Groth for Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in The United States, University of California Press.

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1994

John B. Wright

John B. Wright for Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West, University of Texas Press

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1994 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John B. Wright

1994 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John B. Wright for Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West, University of Texas Press

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1993

Wilbur Zelinsky

Wilbur Zelinsky for Cultural Geography of the United States (Revised & Enlarged Edition), Prentice-Hall Publishers.

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1993 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Wilbur Zelinsky

1993 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Wilbur Zelinsky for Cultural Geography of the United States (Revised & Enlarged Edition), Prentice-Hall Publishers.

1992

John Fraser Hart

John Fraser Hart for The Land That Feeds Us, W.W. Norton Publishers.

1992 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John Fraser Hart

1992 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John Fraser Hart for The Land That Feeds Us, W.W. Norton Publishers.

1991

David Buisseret

David Buisseret for Historic Illinois from the Air, University of Chicago Press

1991 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David Buisseret

1991 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

David Buisseret for Historic Illinois from the Air, University of Chicago Press

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1990

James R. Shortridge

2000 James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell’s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas 1893-1922 University of Kansas Press

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1990 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James R. Shortridge

1990 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

2000 James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell’s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas 1893-1922 University of Kansas Press

1989

James Paul Allen & Eugene James Turner

James Paul Allen & Eugene James Turner for We the People: An Atlas of America’s Ethnic Diversity, Macmillan Press

1989 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James Paul Allen & Eugene James Turner

1989 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

James Paul Allen & Eugene James Turner for We the People: An Atlas of America’s Ethnic Diversity, Macmillan Press

1989

Gary B. Peterson & Lowell C. Bennion

Gary B. Peterson & Lowell C. Bennion for Sampete Scenes: A Guide to Utah’s Heart, Basin/Plateau Press.

1989 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Gary B. Peterson & Lowell C. Bennion

1989 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Gary B. Peterson & Lowell C. Bennion for Sampete Scenes: A Guide to Utah’s Heart, Basin/Plateau Press.

1988

John R. Borchert

John R. Borchert for America’s Northern Heartland, University of Minnesota Press

1988 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John R. Borchert

1988 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John R. Borchert for America’s Northern Heartland, University of Minnesota Press

1987

John A. Alwin

John A. Alwin for Between the Mountains: A Portrait of Eastern Washington, Northwest Panorama Publishing.

1987 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John A. Alwin

1987 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John A. Alwin for Between the Mountains: A Portrait of Eastern Washington, Northwest Panorama Publishing.

1986

John C. Hudson

John C. Hudson, Plains Country Towns, University of Minnesota Press.

1986 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John C. Hudson

1986 AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

John C. Hudson, Plains Country Towns, University of Minnesota Press.

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