Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, has been awarded the Michael Harrington Best Book Award, given for a book of excellent academic quality with the potential to mobilize change on a pressing social and political issue.

Jefferson Cowie, author of Stayin’ Alive , was awarded the 2011 Annual Labor History Book Prize, presented by Labor History magazine to the best book in labor history studies.

 

Mary Cappello, author of Swallow, has been named a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction, appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.

Jane Rhode’s Framing the Black Panthers wins the  2010 North East Black Studies Association’s (formerly the North East Black Studies Alliance) annual W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize.

John Dower’s Cultures of War, which The New Press co-published with W. W. Norton, was named as a finalist for the National Book Award 2010 in the non-fiction category. The complete list of finalists is available at http://www.nationalbook.org/.

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow won the 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award. The Association for Humanist Sociology is a community of sociologists, educators, scholars, and activists who share a commitment to using sociology to promote peace, equality, and social justice.

Paul Butler's Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice won the Judges' Award in the 2009 Harry Chapin Media Awards. Coordinated by WHY, a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world, the Harry Chapin Media Awards were established in 1982 to reward journalists for their coverage of hunger- and poverty-related issues.

Moshe Adler's Economics for the Rest of Us tied for a gold medal in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Finance/Investment/Economics category), while Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow took home a silver in its category, Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian). Since 1996 the "IPPY" Awards have recognized the best indie-published books of the year.

Patricia Sullivan's Lift Every Voice was a finalist for the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, chosen from nearly eighty submissions. The RFK Book Award has been recognized as one of the most prestigious honors an author can receive.

Sarah Schulman's Ties That Bind is a finalist for the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBT Nonfiction Category. The "Lammy" is the most prestigious, competitive, and comprehensive literary award offered specifically to LGBT authors. For more than two decades the Lambda Literary Awards has brought attention to and honored exceptional writing about queer lives across multiple genres published by large and small presses. Ties That Bind is also a finalist for the ForeWord 2009 Book of the Year Award.

Stephen Pimpare's A People's History of Poverty in America received the 2009 Michael Harrington Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association, "for demonstrating how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world."