Cundill History Prize

Given by Peter Cundill Foundation

159 Works / 162 Items 62,472 Books 1,519 Reviews 4.1

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The Cundill History Prize recognizes and rewards the best history writing in

show more English. The award is the largest non-fiction historical literature prize in the world given to an author whose work has had a profound literary, social and academic impact on the field.

A prize of US$75,000 is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. The two runners-up each receive US$10,000.

Administered by McGill University in Montreal and awarded by a distinguished jury, the Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world.

Any historical period or subject is eligible, and translations into English are warmly welcomed. Books are accepted regardless of the nationality or place of residence of their authors. show less

Stages:
All, Winner (17), Finalist (51), Shortlist (88), Longlist (149), finalist (14)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (11), 2021 (14), 2020 (17), 2019 (18), 2018 (11), 2017 (10), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (6), 2011 (6), 2010 (6), 2009 (10), 2008 (15)
Announced:
October 3: Shortlist2023 Recent

Winner 17

WorkYear
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya Jasanoff2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains by Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto2011
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz2008

Finalist 51

WorkYear
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford2023
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly2023
The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance by Mackenzie Cooley2023
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper2023
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (South Asia in Motion) by Douglas Ober2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya Jasanoff2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser2018
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer2017
Vietnam: a new history by Christopher E. Goscha2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains by Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert2015
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy2014
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale2010
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller2010
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine2009
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer2009
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz2008
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche2008

Shortlist 88

WorkYear
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution by Alison Bashford2023
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly2023
The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance by Mackenzie Cooley2023
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper2023
Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India (South Asia in Motion) by Douglas Ober2023
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by James Morton Turner2023
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton2022
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison2022
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner2022
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai2022
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau2021
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif2021
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper2021
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild2021
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton2020
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard M. Eaton2020
The New Cambridge History of India: A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761 by Richard Maxwell Eaton2020
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas2020
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge2020
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi2020
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
Unruly Waters by Sunil Amrith2019
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith2019
Orphans of empire : the fate of London's foundlings by Helen Berry2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2019
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya Jasanoff2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser2018
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White2018
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum2018
Grant by Ron Chernow2018
Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world by Joshua Benjamin Freeman2018
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Tim Grady2018
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer2017
Vietnam: a new history by Christopher E. Goscha2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains by Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert2015
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth2015
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt2015
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina (The Lawrence Stone Lectures) by Stuart B. Schwartz2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy2014
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale2010
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller2010
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine2009
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer2009
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz2008
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche2008

Longlist 149

WorkYear
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das2023
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge2023
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild2023
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia by Natalie Koch2023
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez2023
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra2023
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles2022
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok2022
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton2022
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison2022
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner2022
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai2022
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez2022
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower2022
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau2021
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India by Manan Ahmed Asif2021
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper2021
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones2021
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries by Emma Rothschild2021
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea by Tyler Stovall2021
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley2021
Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier by Guy De la Bédoyère2021
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) by Shay Hazkani2021
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin2021
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand2021
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton2020
The New Cambridge History of India: A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761 by Richard Maxwell Eaton2020
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas2020
Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge2020
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi2020
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt2020
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter2020
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth2020
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner2020
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir2020
Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson2020
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History by Sunil Amrith2019
Orphans of empire : the fate of London's foundlings by Helen Berry2019
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight2019
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2019
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson2019
The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction by Jay Howard Geller2019
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha2019
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg2019
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips2019
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet century by Alexandra Popoff2019
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux2019
The dawn watch: Joseph Conrad in a global world by Maya Jasanoff2018
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser2018
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White2018
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum2018
Grant by Ron Chernow2018
Behemoth: a history of the factory and the making of the modern world by Joshua Benjamin Freeman2018
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Tim Grady2018
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer2018
The invention of race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng2018
The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany by David King2018
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles2018
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer2017
Vietnam: a new history by Christopher E. Goscha2017
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel2017
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher De Bellaigue2017
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher De Hamel2017
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald2017
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson2017
Martin Luther: renegade and prophet by Lyndal Roper2017
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by Stephen Anthony Smith2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson2017
The work of the dead: a cultural history of mortal remains by Thomas W. Laqueur2016
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf2016
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard2016
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon2016
East West Street by Philippe Sands2016
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen2015
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert2015
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth2015
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt2015
Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina (The Lawrence Stone Lectures) by Stuart B. Schwartz2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann2015
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass2014
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy2014
Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck2014
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis2014
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy2014
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark2013
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall2013
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl2013
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson2013
The Black Count: Napoleon's Rival and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas by Tom Reiss2013
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker2012
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt2012
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell2012
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid2012
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular Age by Sergio Luzzatto2011
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011
You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery by Jeremy D. Popkin2011
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack2011
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor2011
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch2010
The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale2010
Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller2010
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh2010
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon2010
The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period by Francesca Trivellato2010
Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory by Lisa Jardine2009
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer2009
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen2009
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery by Vincent Brown2009
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by J. W. Burrow2009
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton2009
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby2009
God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis2009
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross2009
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial by Moshik Temkin2009
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World by Stuart B. Schwartz2008
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook2008
Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche2008
Remembering the Year of the French by Guy Beiner2008
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies) by Sarah Carter2008
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly2008
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin2008
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer2008
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha2008
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi2008
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin2008
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela2008
Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes by Gregg Mitman2008
How Jesus Became Christian by Barrie Wilson2008
Rituals of Resistance by Jason R. Young2008

finalist 14

WorkYear
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan2023
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions by Kate Cooper2023
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by James Morton Turner2023
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok2022
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars2021
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau2021
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend2020
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell2019
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook2019
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore2019

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