Named after American historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893), the Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians for the best nonfiction book dealing with American history, including biography. The author does not have to be a citizen or resident of the United States. The prize was first awarded in 1957.
2024: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, by David Waldstreicher
2023: The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, by John Wood Sweet
2022: Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, by Nicole Eustace
2021: In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History, by Christopher Tomlins
2020: Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, by Charles King
2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight
2018: Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & 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 H. 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 and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southern Borderlands, by James F. Brooks
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, 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, by Robert D. Richardson
1995: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, by John Putnam 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 G. 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, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon
1983: Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845, 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
1976: American Slavery, American Freedom, 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, 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, 1940-1945, 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 Jordan
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 Nichols Rose
1964: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, by William 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 Crisis of the Old Order, by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1957: Russia Leaves the War, by George F. Kennan
2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight
2018: Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & 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 H. 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 and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southern Borderlands, by James F. Brooks
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, 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, by Robert D. Richardson
1995: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, by John Putnam 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 G. 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, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon
1983: Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845, 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
1976: American Slavery, American Freedom, 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, 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, 1940-1945, 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 Jordan
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 Nichols Rose
1964: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, by William 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 Crisis of the Old Order, by Arthur M. Schlesinger
1957: Russia Leaves the War, by George F. Kennan
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