Monday, September 30, 2024

Mark Lynton History Prize


The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award given to a book of history, “on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression.” It is part of the Lukas Prize Project, which consists of three awards. Administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the Columbia University School of Journalism, the Lukas Prize Project takes its name from the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author, J. Anthony Lukas.

2024: Ned Blackhawk, for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

2023: Deborah Cohen, for Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

2022: Jane Rogoyska, for Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

2021: William G. Thomas III, for A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War.

2020: Kerri K. Greenidge, for Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter 

2019: Jeffrey C. Stewart, for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

2018: Stephen Kotkin, for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

2017: Tyler Arbinder, for City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

2016: Nikolaus Wachsmann, for KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

2015: Harold Holzer, for Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion


2014: Jill Lepore, for Book of Ages: the Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

2013: Robert Caro, for The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson


2012: Sophia Rosenfeld, for Common Sense: A Political History

2011: Isabel Wilkerson, for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

2010: James Davidson, for The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World

2009: Timothy Brook, for Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

2008: Peter Silver, for Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

2007: James T. Campbell, for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005

2006: Megan Marshall, for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

2005: Richard Steven Street, for Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913

2004: Rebecca Solnit, for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

2003: Robert W. Harms, for The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

2002: Mark Roseman, for A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany

2001: Fred Anderson, for Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

2000: John W. Dower, for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

1999: Adam Hochschild, for King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa


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