Francis Parkman Prize

The Francis Parkman Prize is a Society of American Historians Prize for Historians awarded annually for the best book in American history. It is named after Francis Parkman and endowed with 2000 dollars.

Award winners

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

Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement

In addition, the Society awards a special prize for outstanding contributions to the historiography of American history, which has been awarded five times so far (2013):

1962 Allan Nevins
1970 Samuel Eliot Morison
1974 to the publisher Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. ( Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. )
1988 Forrest C. Pogue
1994 Walter Lord

Web links

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