The Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) has awarded this year's Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book to Jeannine De Lombard's monograph, In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). The selection committee considered the book "ambitiously interdisciplinary and thoroughly accomplished," an "impressive, original contribution to American studies." Many congratulations, Jeannine.