Francis Parkman Prize

Given by Society of American Historians

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The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published the previous year that is distinguished by its show more literary merit. The prize is named for Francis Parkman, whose monumental work, France and England in North America (7 vols., Boston: Little, Brown, 1865–92), was widely praised for its literary elegance as well as its historical importance. show less
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WorkYear
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
2023
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace
2022
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins
2021
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
2020
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
2019
Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Snyder
2018
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
2017
American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam by Christine Leigh Heyrman
2016
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle S. Allen
2015
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
2014
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
2013
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
2012
Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie
2011
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
2010
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape by Jared Farmer
2009
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
2008
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by John Huxtable Elliott
2007
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
2006
Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 by Alan Trachtenberg
2005
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial by Suzanne Lebsock
2004
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks
2003
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2002
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
2001
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
2000
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West
1999
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry
1998
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
1997
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson Jr.
1996
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Putnam Demos
1995
W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis
1994
Truman by David McCullough
1993
The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White
1992
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century by Paul E. Hoffman
1991
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
1990
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
1989
Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War by Eric Larrabee
1988
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael Kammen
1987
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
1986
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation by Joel Williamson
1985
A Rage for Order: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Galaxy Books) by Joel Williamson
1985
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon
1984
Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 by John R. Stilgoe
1983
Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
1982
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster
1981
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
1980
The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire by R. David Edmunds
1979
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
1978
World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe
1977
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan
1976
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
1975
Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
1974
FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928 by Kenneth S. Davis
1973
Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
1972
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 by James MacGregor Burns
1971
The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941: Revised Edition by Theodore A. Wilson
1970
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
1969
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1967
The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel Boorstin
1966
Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Galaxy Books) by Willie Lee Rose
1965
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William E. Leuchtenburg
1964
That wilder image; the painting of America's native school from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer by James Thomas Flexner
1963
Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn by Leon Wolff
1962
Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson by Elting E. Morrison
1961
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
1960
Henry Adams: The Middle Years by Ernest Samuels
1959
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1958
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920, Vol 1 by George F. Kennan
1957

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