The Francis Parkman Prize
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2018 Great crossings : Indians, settlers, and slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Snyder
2017 Black Elk : the life of an American visionary by Joe Jackson
2016 American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam by Christine Leigh Heyrman
2015 Our Declaration : a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality by Danielle Allen
2014 A cruel and shocking act : the secret history of the Kennedy assassination by Philip Shenon
2013 Embers of war : the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
2012 Railroaded : the transcontinentals and the making of modern America by Richard White
2011 Stayin' alive : the 1970s and the last days of the working class by Jefferson Cowie
2010 Cheever : a life by Blake Bailey
2009 On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape by Jared Farmer
2008 FDR by Jean Edward Smith
2007 Empires of the Atlantic world : Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 by John Huxtable Elliott
2006 The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism by Megan Marshall
2005 Shades of Hiawatha : staging Indians, making Americans : 1880-1930 by Alan Trachtenberg
2004 A murder in Virginia : Southern justice on trial by Suzanne Lebsock
2003 Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands by James F. Brooks
2002 The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
2001 Crucible of war : the Seven Years' War and the fate of empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
2000 Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
1999 The contested plains : Indians, goldseekers, & the rush to Colorado by Elliott West
1998 Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John M. Barry
1997 Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
1996 Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography by Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
1995 The unredeemed captive : a family story from early America by John Demos
1994 W. E. B. Du Bois--biography of a race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
1993 Truman by David McCullough
1992 The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 by Richard White
1991 A new Andalucia and a way to the Orient : the American Southeast during the sixteenth century by Paul E. Hoffman
1990 A first class temperament; the emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
1989 Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner
1988 Commander in chief : Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his lieutenants, and their war by Eric Larrabee
1987 A machine that would go of itself : the Constitution in American culture by Michael Kammen
1986 Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson
1985 The crucible of race : black/white relations in the American South since emancipation by Joel Williamson
1984 Changes in the land : Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England by William Cronon
1983 Common landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe
1982 Grant : a biography by William S. McFeely
1981 A revolutionary people at war : the Continental Army and American character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster
1980 Been in the storm so long : the aftermath of slavery by Leon F. Litwack
1979 The Potawatomis, keepers of the fire by R. David Edmunds
1978 The path between the seas : the creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
1977 World of our fathers by Irving Howe, with the assistance of Kenneth Libo
1976 American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan
1975 The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
1974 Stephen A. Douglas by Robert W. Johannsen
1973 FDR : the beckoning of destiny, 1882-1928; a history by Kenneth S. Davis
1972 Eleanor and Franklin; the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s private papers by Joseph P. Lash
1971 Roosevelt : the soldier of freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1970 The first summit; Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941 by Theodore A. Wilson
1969 White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan
1968 No award
1967 Exploration and empire; the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1966 The Americans : the national experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1965 Rehearsal for Reconstruction : the Port Royal experiment by Willie Lee Rose
1964 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 by William Edward Leuchtenburg
1963 That wilder image; the painting of America’s native school from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer by James Thomas Flexner
1962 Little brown brother; how the United States purchased and pacified the Philippine Islands at the century’s turn by Leon Wolff
1961 Turmoil and tradition; a study of the life and times of Henry L. Stimson by Elting E. Morison
1960 Edison : a biography by Matthew Josephson
1959 Henry Adams : the middle years by Ernest Samuels
1958 The age of Roosevelt : volume 1 : Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.