Awards in your library

Summary: 72 Awards. Page: [1] 2

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present (1978)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Truman by David G. McCullough (Biography, 1999)
• Indian Givers - How The Indians Of The Americas Transformed The World by Jack Weatherford (History, 2004)
• Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis (History, 2004)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (History, 2004)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (History & Cultures, 2009)

Alan Paton Award

• Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader (1998)

Albert B. Corey Prize

• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American India by Richard White (1992)

Albert J. Beveridge Award

• Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz (1984)
• Maya Society under Colonial Rule by Nancy Marguerite Farriss (1985)
• That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) by Peter Novick (1989)
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American India by Richard White (1992)
• William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (1996)

Alice Davis Hitchcock Award

• The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 by Abbott Lowell Cummings (1979)

Ambassador Book Award

• Cities on a Hill: A Brilliant Exploration of Visonary Communities Remaking the American Dream by Frances FitzGerald (American Studies, 1987)
• The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger (American Studies, 1987)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (Biography/Autobiography, 2002)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (American Studies, 2005)

American Book Award

• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (A Back Bay Book) (A Back Bay Book) by Ronald Takaki (1994)
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (1996)

Bancroft Prize

• John Adams (Volumes 1 and 2) by Page Smith (1963)
• The Mathers : three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728 by Robert Middlekauff (1972)
• Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan (1989)
• Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (1992)
• William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor (1996)
• Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Belknap Press Ser.) by Ira Berlin (1999)
• Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell (2000)
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (2004)
• The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (2006)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)

Bolton-Johnson Prize

• Maya Society under Colonial Rule by Nancy Marguerite Farriss (1985)
• Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by Inga Clendinnen (1988)
• Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages by William Taylor (honorable mention, 1980)
• Huarochiri: An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule by Karen Spalding (honorable mention, 1985)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before by Tony Horwitz ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2003)

Caroline Bancroft History Prize

• One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (History of the American West) by Colin G. Calloway (2004)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski (2000)

Christianity Today Book Awards

• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (History/Biography, 2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• John Adams (Volumes 1 and 2) by Page Smith (Nonfiction, Gold, 1962)
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (Nonfiction, Gold, 1982)
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (Nonfiction, Gold, 1989)
• American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA) by Alan Taylor (Nonfiction, Gold, 2001)
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, Gold, 2005)
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Silver, 2005)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

Cox Book Prize

• The divided ground : Indians, settlers and the northern borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor (2007)

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• John Adams by David G. McCullough (2001)

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award

• Maya Society under Colonial Rule by Nancy Marguerite Farriss (1985)

Francis Parkman Prize

• Changes in the land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England by William Cronon (1984)
• Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (1989)
• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American India by Richard White (1992)
• Truman by David G. McCullough (1993)
• The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos (1995)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

• Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis (2001)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (2002)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005)
• American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic by Joseph J. Ellis (2008)

Frederic W. Ness Book Award

• Historical thinking and other unnatural acts : charting the future of teaching the past by Samuel S. Wineburg (2002)

Frederick Douglass Prize

• Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Belknap Press Ser.) by Ira Berlin (First Prize, 1999)

Frederick Jackson Turner Award

• Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz (1985)
• The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Institute of Early by Daniel K. Richter (1993)
• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1997)
• The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism by Aaron Sachs (honorable mention, 2007)

George Louis Beer Prize

• The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 19471952 (Studies in Economic History and by Michael J. Hogan (1988)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

• Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

Heartland Prize

• The painted drum by Louise Erdrich (Fiction, 2006)
• Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon (Non-Fiction, 1992)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• The great heritage by Katherine Binney Shippen (1948)
• Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present (1979)

Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize

• Huarochiri: An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule by Karen Spalding (1985)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski (2000)

James A. Rawley Prize

• The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American India by Richard White (1992)
• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1997)

Jefferson Davis Award

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)

John H. Dunning Prize

• Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 by Allan Kulikoff (1987)

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award

• The framed houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 by Abbott Lowell Cummings (1979)

Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize

• Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (1993)

Lincoln Prize

• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1996)
• Lincoln : a life of purpose and power by Richard Carwardine (2004)
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson (2009)

Lionel Gelber Prize

• Truman by David G. McCullough (1992)
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (2006)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• The future of freedom : illiberal democracy at home and abroad by Fareed Zakaria (2003)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (History, 1988)
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (History, 2005)

Minnesota Book Awards

• Indian Givers - How The Indians Of The Americas Transformed The World by Jack Weatherford (NonFiction Winner, 1989)
• Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America by Jack Weatherford ( NonFiction Winner, 1992)
• Neither wolf nor dog : on forgotten roads with an Indian elder by Kent Nerburn ( Personal Voices Winner, 1995)
• The painted drum by Louise Erdrich ( Novel and Short Story Winner, 2006)
• Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy by Kent Nerburn ( History & Biography, 2006)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (77)
• The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter (93)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

• Trustee from the toolroom by Nevil Shute (The Reader's List, 27)

Médicis

• The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion (Essai, 2007)

National Book Award

• The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion (Nonfiction, 2005)

National Book Award finalist

• In Search of History, A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White (History (Paperback), 1980)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn (History (Paperback), 1981)
• The making of the President, 1960 by Theodore Harold White (Nonfiction, 1962)
• John Adams (Volumes 1 and 2) by Page Smith (Nonfiction, 1963)
• Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Truman by David G. McCullough (Nonfiction, 1992)
• The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos (Nonfiction, 1994)
• Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (Nonfiction, 2005)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion (Autobiography/Memoir, 2005)
• Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden (Biography, 2003)
• In Search of History, A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White (General Nonfiction, 1978)
• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner (General Nonfiction, 1988)
• The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos (General Nonfiction, 1994)
• Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Belknap Press Ser.) by Ira Berlin (General Nonfiction, 1998)

New England Historical Association Book Award

• Revolution downeast : the war for American independence in Maine by James S. Leamon (1993)

New York City Book Award

• The island at the center of the world : the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America by Russell Shorto (2004)
• New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore (Book of the Year, 2005)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson (1988)
• Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (1995)
• The year of magical thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

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