Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
Avery O. Craven Award for Best Book on the Civil War Era, Organization of American Historians
Best Book Prize, Society of Historians of the Early American Republic
James A. Rawley Award for the Best Book on Secession and the Sectional Crisis published in the last two years, Southern Historical Association
National Book Award for Non Fiction, Long List
Honorable Mention in the U.S. History category for the American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)
Andrew Delbanco, With Commentaries by John Stauffer, Manisha Sinha, Darryl Pinckney, and Wilfred M. McClay, The Abolitionist Imagination (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012)
Reviewed in the New York Review of Books, June 2012
Co-edited with John H. Bracey, Jr., African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the African Slave Trade to the Twenty First Century Vol. I To 1877 & Vol. II From 1865 to the Present (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004)
Manisha Sinha, Historian 