The Erik Barnouw Award—also known as the OAH Erik Barnouw Award—is named after the late

Erik Barnouw Erik Barnouw (June 23, 1908 – July 19, 2001) was a U.S. historian of radio and television broadcasting. At the time of his death, Barnouw was widely considered to be America's most distinguished historian of broadcasting. Life According to t ...

, a Columbia University historian and professor who was a specialist in mass media. The OAH --

Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...

-- gives one or two awards annually to recognize excellent programs, from mass media or documentary films, that relate to American history or further its study. The award was first presented in 1983.

List of winners

*1983 – '' Brooklyn Bridge'' *1984 – '' Vietnam: A Television History'' *1985 – ''

Solomon Northup's Odyssey ''Solomon Northup's Odyssey'', reissued as ''Half Slave, Half Free'', is a 1984 American television film based on the 1853 autobiography ''Twelve Years a Slave'' by Solomon Northup, a free black man who in 1841 was kidnapped and sold into slavery. ...

'' / ''The Legacy of Harry Truman'' *1986 – ''

Huey Long Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893September 10, 1935), nicknamed "the Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination ...

'' *1987 – no award *1988 – ''

Radio Bikini ''Radio Bikini'' is a 1988 American documentary film directed by Robert Stone. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 for Best Documentary Feature. It was later aired on the PBS series ''The American Experience''. Summary The film docu ...

'' / ''The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis'' *1989 – ''Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo'' *1990 – ''Adam Clayton Powell'' *1991 – ''

Eyes on the Prize ''Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement'' is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also ...

'' *1992 – ''Coney Island'' / ''Color Adjustment'' *1993 – ''In the White Man's Image'' *1994 – ''At the River I Stand'' *1995 – ''

Freedom on My Mind ''Freedom on My Mind'' is a 1994 feature documentary film that tells the story of the Mississippi voter registration movement of 1961 to 1964, which was characterized by violence against the people involved, including multiple instances of murde ...

'' *1996 – ''America's War'' *1997 – ''The West'' *1998 – ''The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie'' *1999 - ''A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America'' *2000 - ''I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Art'' *2001 - ''Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore'' *2002 - '' Scottsboro: An American Tragedy'' *2003 - ''The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It'' *2004 - ''Partners of the Heart'' *2005 - ''Reconstruction: the Second Civil War'' *2006 - '' Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power'' *2007 - ''The Gold Rush'' *2008 - ''Through Deaf Eyes'' *2009 - ''

Wings of Defeat ''Wings of Defeat'' is a 2007 documentary feature film in which former Kamikaze pilots reveal they were not fanatics but were ordered to die by a desperate military. ''Wings of Defeat'', broadcast on the PBS Independent Lens series in May 2009, wa ...

'' *2010 - ''

Passage Passage, The Passage or Le Passage may refer to: Arts and entertainment Films * ''Passage'' (2008 film), a documentary about Arctic explorers * ''Passage'' (2009 film), a short movie about three sisters * ''The Passage'' (1979 film), starring ...

'' *2011 - '' The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers'' *2012 - ''

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth ''The Pruitt-Igoe Myth'' is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual decision to raze the entire complex in 1976. The documentary argues that the violent so ...

'' *2013 - '' Death and the Civil War'' *2014 - ''Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story'' *2015 - '' The Roosevelts: An Intimate History'' *2016 - '' No más bebés'' *2017 - ''The Mine Wars'' *2018 - ''

The Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietna ...

'' *2019 - ''The Chinese Exclusion Act'' *2020 - '' Chasing the Moon'' *2021 - ''

The People Vs. Agent Orange ''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speak ...

'' *2022 - ''Look Away, Look Away''

References

External links

* http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/07/erikBarnouw.html {{Prizes and Awards of the Organization of American Historians American awards