Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction -- Nominees

Bowling, Lewis. Sam Ragan: North Carolina’s Literary Godfather.

Brantley, Michael K. Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate.

Browning, Judkin, and Timothy Silver. An Environmental History of the Civil War.

Davis, Mark;  A Warren Court of Our Own: The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina.

Darity, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
2020 Award Winner

Irby, Alice; South Toward Home: Tales from and Unlikely Journey.

Pierce, Daniel S. Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World.

Thompson Jr., Charles; Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land.

Wilson, Emily, When I Go Back to my Home Country: A Remembrance of Archie Ammons.