The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Angela Diaz has been awarded the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association for her book A Continuous State of War: Empire-Building and Race-Making in the Civil War Era Gulf South. The award carries a $500 cash prize and a plaque, which is presented to the winner at the banquet during the annual conference.

A Continuous State of War examines the communities of the Gulf Coast during the mid nineteenth century and how the area became a springboard for U.S. territorial expansion in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central South America.

Congratulations!

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Angela Diaz accepts the award at the conference