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# The Langum Foundation

A family of literary prizes

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- [Welcome to The Langum Foundation](https://langumfoundation.org/) - David Langum, founded The Langum Foundation out of a conviction that too many historians write only for each other and not for the general public.
- [Contact Langum Foundation](https://langumfoundation.org/contact/) - Inquiries about any prize should be directed to the chairman or chairwoman of that respective prize. Inquiries or submissions (3 copies) for the Langum Prize in American Legal History/Biography should be sent to the chairman of its selection committee, William G. Ross, Cumberland School of Law, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229, wgross@samford.edu. Inquiries or
- [Current News](https://langumfoundation.org/news/current-news/) - Langum Foundation News This page is for current and upcoming news of the Trust and its work. Check back here periodically for links to news stories.
- [Current Winners - American Legal History](https://langumfoundation.org/winners/current-winners-american-legal-history/) - The Winner of the 2025 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History is John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law (Harvard University Press, 2025), by Beth Lew-Williams This fascinating and beautifully written book brilliantly demonstrates how American law constrained the lives of Chinese immigrants in the Pacific
- [Past Winners and Finalists](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/past-winners/) - Past Winners of the Gene E. & Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism View Prize Winners Past Winners of the David J. Langum Sr. Prizes 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
- [Archived News](https://langumfoundation.org/news/archive-news/) - Langum Foundation News This page is for current and upcoming news of the Trust and its work. Check back here periodically for links to news stories, upcoming deadlines, and late-breaking information. The Langum Retreats David J. Langum, Sr., Announces Retirement The Langum Foundation Is Pleased to Announce the Winner of the 2024 David J. Langum,
- [The Langum Retreats](https://langumfoundation.org/langum-retreats/) - Welcome to the Langum Foundation’s new summer residences for writing on history and literature. These summer residences are set in Port Townsend, Washington, a community of writers and artists on Puget Sound, Washington. Dozens of writing, jazz, fiddle, vocal, and chamber music festivals are on offer each summer, together with associated public and private conferences
- [Selection Committees](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/) - The Langum Project Selection Committees: The David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History The Gene E. and Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism The David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History: Selection Committee Members Laura Kalman, Professor of History, University of California Santa Barbara, and author. > Profile William
- [Current Winners - Recording Community Activism](https://langumfoundation.org/winners/current-winners-recording-community-activism/) - The winner of the 2023-2024 Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism is You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America, by Paul Kix. Paul Kix provides a comprehensive and riveting account of a crucial period in the civil rights movement in You Have
- [Past Winners of the Gene E. & Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/recording-community-activism/past-winners/) - 2021-2022 | 2019-2020 | 2017-2018 | 2015-2016 | 2013-2014 | 2011-2012 | 2009-2012 | 2007-2008 For the years 2021 and 2022 The winner of the 2021-2022 Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism is The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, Beacon Press (Boston), 2021.
- [Submissions](https://langumfoundation.org/submissions/) - Either author or publisher may submit for the recording community activism prize; however, publishers must submit for the legal history prize. Three copies of submissions for the legal history prize or the Malott Prize should be made to the address indicated on the contact page. The deadline for the Langum Prize in American Legal History
- [David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/american-historical-fiction/) - The David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction has been suspended. At the February 12, 2024 meeting, the Board of Directors resolved to suspend the operations of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction. This action was taken at the recommendation of the Selection Committee. The problem is that we
- [Current Winners - American Historical Fiction](https://langumfoundation.org/winners/current-winners-american-historical-fiction/) - The winner of the 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction is Susanna Moore, The Lost Wife Susanna Moore’s new novel explores a lesser known incident of American history. Forced to the breaking point by undelivered rations and shrinking territory, starving Dakotas waged war against white settlers in Minnesota in 1862. The
- [David J. Langum, Sr. Papers](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/david-j-langum-sr-papers/)
- [Meghan Crawford Roy](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/meghan-crawford-roy/) - Meghan Crawford Roy currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband. She loves writing, reading murder mysteries, traveling, and learning about different cultures, specifically her husband’s Indian and South Korean cultures. Return to the Homepage
- [Theresa Davidson](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/theresa-davidson/) - Theresa Davidson is Professor of Sociology at Samford University. She has a PhD in Sociology from Louisiana State University, a MA in Sociology from Northern Arizona University, and a BA in Sociology from the University of Arizona. She is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Native American Studies from Montana State University, expected Spring 2022.
- [The Langum Travel to Collections Initiative](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/) - This initiative is designed to help defray the travel and living expenses of scholars who wish to use the Langum Family Papers or the de Mattos Family Papers, both of which are located at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (formerly the Illinois State Historical Library) in Springfield, Illinois. The Langum Papers and the de Mattos
- [Frederick M. Shepherd](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/frederick-shepherd/) - Frederick M. Shepherd is Chair and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Samford University. He is the author of the edited volume Christianity and Human Rights: Christians and the Struggle for Global Justice, and has published widely on religion and politics, US foreign policy, Latin American politics, genocide, and human rights. He has
- [David Gespass](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/david-gespass/) - David Gespass is a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama. His current practice is devoted primarily to representing victims of police misconduct and to prisoners' rights. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild, the country's oldest and largest national human rights bar association. He was editor-in-chief of the NLG Review (formerly the Guild Practitioner),
- [American Legal History or Biography](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/american-legal-history-or-biography/) - David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History or Biography This $1,000 prize is made annually to the best book in American legal history or biography that is accessible to the educated general public, rooted in sound scholarship, and with themes that touch upon matters of general concern to the American public, past or
- [David J. Langum, Curriculum Vitae](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/david-j-langum-curriculum-vitae/) - Teaching Employment Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, 1985-present. Professor of Law. Courses taught: Evidence, Property, Legal History, Legal Process, Equity. Chairman, Admissions Committee (1987-88); Chairman, Faculty Appointments Committee (1988-89); Faculty Advisor to the Law Review (1987-91); Member, Policy Committee (1988-91); Co-Chairman, Self-Study Committee, (1990-1991); Chairman, Rushton Distinguished Lectureship Program (1997); Chairman, doctoral program
- [Gene E. & Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/recording-community-activism/) - The Gene E. and Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism recognizes biannually the best literary depiction of an individual or small group of individuals whose efforts resulted in a significant improvement of their local community. Although the work of community improvement must be significant, the basis of the prize will be the skill
- [News](https://langumfoundation.org/news/)
- [Winners](https://langumfoundation.org/winners/)
- [About Prizes](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/)
- [Laura Kalman](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/laura-kalman/) - Laura Kalman is Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara; a member of the California Bar; and past president of the American Society for Legal History. Her books, among others, include: The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court; The Strange Career of Legal Realism;
- [Donna Schuele](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/donna-schuele/) - Donna Schuele received her J.D. and Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley. She teaches history, law, and political science in the California State University system, is the president of the Historical Society of Southern California, and serves as the book review co-editor of Women and Social Movements in the United States. She
- [Bethany Latham](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/bethany-latham/) - Bethany Latham (B.A., M.L.I.S.) is a Professor and Librarian at Jacksonville State University. She is the author of Elizabeth I in Film and Television, Finding and Using US Government Information, and Academic Libraries in the US and China, as well as a variety of peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. She serves as Associate Editor for
- [Patrick Byington](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/patrick-byington/) - Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the creation of Alabama’s Forever Wild program, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Dugger Mountain Wilderness, preservation of special places throughout the East through
- [John K. Langum (1913-1998) Papers, 1923-2001](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/john-k-langum-papers/) - 22 linear feet (22 archival boxes) Owner and president of Business Economics, Inc. founded in 1951 in Chicago, Ill.; Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1941-1951; economics lecturer at University of Minnesota, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Northwestern, and University of Indiana; seminar instructor in banking at various universities; and
- [David J. Langum, Sr., Professor](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/david-j-langum-sr/) - Phone: (205) 726-2424 Fax: (205) 726-2587 E-mail: djlangum@samford.edu Education A.B., Dartmouth College, history, 1962 J.D., Stanford University Law School, 1965 M.A., San Jose State University, history, 1976 LL.M., University of Michigan Law School, legal history, 1981 S.J.D., University of Michigan Law School, legal history, 1985 Clerk, Judge Murray Draper, California Court of Appeals, 1965-66 Practice
- [Virginia Langum (1918-1967) Papers, 1918-1971](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/virginia-langum-papers/) - 3.75 linear feet (3 archival boxes) Virginia Anne de Mattos Langum was born on September 3, 1918 at Winnipeg, Manitoba to Dunbar Wright de Mattos and Phyllis Atherton (Drew) de Mattos. She died October 23, 1967 at Elgin, Illinois. She married John K. Langum at Fremont, Nebraska on November 18, 1939 and they had one
- [De Mattos Family Papers, 1852-1929, 2001-2006](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/de-mattos-family-papers/) - 2.52 linear feet (6 manuscript boxes) Portuguese Christian, Antonio, from Madeira Island, settled in Jacksonville, IL with wife Isabella, and organized the Portuguese Presbyterian Church there in 1849. He continued as pastor there until 1869. Antonio had been banished from his father’s home in Madeira and gone to Scotland where he studied, was licensed and
- [Henry Langum (1882-1967) Papers, 1940-1967](https://langumfoundation.org/travel-to-collections/henry-langum-papers/) - 6.25 linear feet (5 archival boxes and 1 oversize folder) Henry Langum was the son of Johan (John) Johanneson and Kari Nerisdatter (Folsland) Langum, Norwegian immigrants who settled in Lake County, South Dakota. Mr. Langum was born February 13, 1882 in Volga, South Dakota (1st Langum to be born in South Dakota). Mr. Langum was
- [Past Winners](https://langumfoundation.org/winners/past-winners/) - Return to the Homepage
- [Virginia Langum](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/virginia-langum-2/) - Virginia Langum is Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala University and an Associate Professor of English literature at Umeå University. Her research interests lie in the connections between literature, medicine and religion. She is also a member of Sweden's Young Academy. Before moving to Sweden, she earned a PhD
- [Publications by David J. Langum](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/publications-by-david-j-langum/) - Books | Articles and Chapters in Books | Book Reviews Books Antonio de Mattos and the Protestant Portuguese Community in Antebellum Illinois. Jacksonville Illinois: Morgan County Historical Society, 2006. William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America. New York: New York University Press, 1999. From Maverick to Mainstream: Cumberland School of Law, 1847-1997. Athens,
- [Natalia Holtzman](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/natalia-holtzman-2/) - Natalia Holtzman is a freelance writer and editor based in Ann Arbor, MI. Her reviews have appeared in Fig Tree Books, and her creative work has appeared in journals like DIAGRAM, Hobart, Redivider, B O D Y, and elsewhere. She earned a BA in Philosophy from Kalamazoo College, and recently completed an MFA in Creative
- [Ann Weisgarber](https://langumfoundation.org/selection-committee/ann-weisgarber-2/) - Ann Weisgarber's most recent novel, The Promise, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Fiction, and the Ohioana Award for Fiction. The Women's National Book Association selected it as a Group Read for book clubs and libraries. Her debut novel, The Personal History of Rachel
- [Shortlist](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/shortlist/) - David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction SHORTLIST FOR 2013 The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom (Grove Press) Crossing Purgatory by Gary Schanbacher (Pegasus) Seven Locks by Christine Wade (Atria) The Son by Philipp Meyer (Ecco) Swimming in the Moon, by Pamela Schoenewaldt (Morrow) The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth
- [Guidelines](https://langumfoundation.org/about-prizes/american-historical-fiction/guidelines/) - Readers Guidelines for the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction The purpose of the prize is to acknowledge those novels that are a combination of excellent fiction and excellent American history. Keeping in mind that few books are perfect, the following are general guidelines to help you decide if a particular novel