- Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize, named after
Francis Parkman , is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year. Its purpose is to promote literary distinction in historical writing. [http://www.historians.org/affiliates/soc_am_hisn.htm] The Society of American Historians is an affiliate of the American Historical Association.To be eligible, the book copyright must be in the previous year.
Winners of the Francis Parkman Prize:
*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"
*1969 –Winthrop D. 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"
*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 "W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race "
*1995 –John Putnam Demos for "The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America"
*1996 –Robert D. Richardson Jr. 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"External links
* [http://www.historians.org/affiliates/soc_am_hisn.htm Francis Parkman Prize at the Society of American Historians]
* [http://sah.columbia.edu/index.html Society of American Historians was established in 1939]
* [http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Francis+Parkman+Prize Francis Parkman Prize at lovethebook]
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