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Year 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2010 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy Susan M. Reverby View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression Morris Dickstein View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War James Mann View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2010 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America Beryl Satter View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Bancroft Prize Killing For Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War Thomas Andrews View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Bancroft Prize This Republic Of Suffering: Death And The American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Bancroft Prize The Comanche Empire Pekka Hamalainen View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Albert J. Beveridge Award Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History Karl Jacoby View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning Peter Trachtenberg View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Frederick Jackson Turner Award Upbuilding Black Durham Leslie Brown View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Dunning Prize What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America Peggy Pascoe View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 Mark Thompson View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies A Summer of Hummingbirds Christopher Benfey View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking Charles Seife View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Kenneth Jackson Award Smack: Heroin and the American City Eric C. Schneider View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize Killing For Coal Thomas Andrews View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer Chris Myers Asch View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award A Cultural Theory of International Relations Richard Ned Lebow View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries George Gavrilis (Honorable Mention) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Albert C. Outler Prize The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque Sidney H. Griffith View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History A Poverty of Rights Brodwyn Fischer View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2009 Samuel Pepys Award Pepys's Navy J. David Davies View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Bancroft Prize Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America Peter Silver View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Bancroft Prize The Populist Vision Charles Postel View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Bancroft Prize The Cigarette Century: The Rise Fall And Deadly Persistence Of The Product That Defined America Allan M. Brandt View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848 Daniel Walker Howe View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Wolfson History Prize Dance in the Renaissance Margaret McGowan View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Wolfson History Prize Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Albert J. Beveridge Award The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles Scott Kurashige View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Muhammad's Grave Leor Halevi View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award The Populist Vision Charles Postel View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Merle Curti Award The Slave Ship Marcus Rediker View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Francis Parkman Prize FDR Jean Edward Smith View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award Green for Battling the Plantation Mentality Laurie B. Green View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe Mark Mazower (runner up) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War Clair Wills View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 Philipp Blom (shortlist) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London Leo Hollis (shortlist) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation Mr. Frederic Spotts (shortlist) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies Storming the Gates of Paradise Rebecca Solnit View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea Helen M. Rozwadowski View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Lincoln Prize The Radical and the Republican James Oakes View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Lincoln Prize Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters Elizabeth Brown Pryor Library Cart Library Lookup
Year 2008 Lincoln Prize What This Cruel War Was Over Chandra Manning Honorable Mention View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Kenneth Jackson Award Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America David M. P. Freund View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 George Perkins Marsh Prize Resurrecting the Granary of Rome Diana Davis View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Michael K. Honey View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com
Year 2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle Laurie B. Green (finalist) View Details Library Cart Library Lookup Amazon.com

Year 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
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Year 2010 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Susan M. Reverby
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Year 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Morris Dickstein
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Year 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
James Mann
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Year 2010 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Beryl Satter
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Year 2009 Bancroft Prize
Killing For Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
Thomas Andrews
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Year 2009 Bancroft Prize
This Republic Of Suffering: Death And The American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
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Year 2009 Bancroft Prize
The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hamalainen
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Year 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed
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Year 2009 Albert J. Beveridge Award
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
Karl Jacoby
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Year 2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
Peter Trachtenberg
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Year 2009 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Upbuilding Black Durham
Leslie Brown
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Year 2009 Dunning Prize
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
Peggy Pascoe
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Year 2009 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Mark Thompson
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Year 2009 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
A Summer of Hummingbirds
Christopher Benfey
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Year 2009 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Charles Seife
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Year 2009 Kenneth Jackson Award
Smack: Heroin and the American City
Eric C. Schneider
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Year 2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize
Killing For Coal
Thomas Andrews
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Year 2009 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
Chris Myers Asch
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Year 2009 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
A Cultural Theory of International Relations
Richard Ned Lebow
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Year 2009 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries
George Gavrilis
(Honorable Mention)
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Year 2009 Albert C. Outler Prize
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Sidney H. Griffith
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Year 2009 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History
A Poverty of Rights
Brodwyn Fischer
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Year 2009 Samuel Pepys Award
Pepys's Navy
J. David Davies
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Year 2008 Bancroft Prize
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Peter Silver
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Year 2008 Bancroft Prize
The Populist Vision
Charles Postel
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Year 2008 Bancroft Prize
The Cigarette Century: The Rise Fall And Deadly Persistence Of The Product That Defined America
Allan M. Brandt
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Year 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History
What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Daniel Walker Howe
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Year 2008 Wolfson History Prize
Dance in the Renaissance
Margaret McGowan
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Year 2008 Wolfson History Prize
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Mary Beard
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Year 2008 Albert J. Beveridge Award
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Scott Kurashige
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Year 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Muhammad's Grave
Leor Halevi
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Year 2008 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
The Populist Vision
Charles Postel
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Year 2008 Merle Curti Award
The Slave Ship
Marcus Rediker
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Year 2008 Francis Parkman Prize
FDR
Jean Edward Smith
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Year 2008 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
Green for Battling the Plantation Mentality
Laurie B. Green
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Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
(runner up)
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Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War
Clair Wills
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Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
Philipp Blom
(shortlist)
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Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
Leo Hollis
(shortlist)
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Year 2008 Hessell-Tiltman History Prize
The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
Mr. Frederic Spotts
(shortlist)
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Year 2008 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
Storming the Gates of Paradise
Rebecca Solnit
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Year 2008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
Helen M. Rozwadowski
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Year 2008 Lincoln Prize
The Radical and the Republican
James Oakes
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Year 2008 Lincoln Prize
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
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Year 2008 Lincoln Prize
What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning
Honorable Mention
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Year 2008 Kenneth Jackson Award
Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
David M. P. Freund
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Year 2008 George Perkins Marsh Prize
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Diana Davis
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Year 2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Michael K. Honey
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Year 2008 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award
Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Laurie B. Green
(finalist)
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