Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History

The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, formerly known as the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize, or the American History Book Prize, is an award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult nonfiction book that is "distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience." The prize was first awarded in 2006, for a book published in 2005. Each year's award honors a book released the previous year.

2024: King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig

2023: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage

 

2022: American Republics: A Continental History of the United States: 1783-1850, by Alan Taylor

2021: The Year of Peril: America in 1942, by Tracy Campbell

 

2020: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson

2019: The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, by Benn Steil

2018: Richard Nixon: The Life, by John A. Farrell

2017: A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, by Jane Kamensky

2016: Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, by Eric Foner

2015: The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lepore

2014: The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire, by  Andrew O’Shaughnessy

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

2012: George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis

2011: Washington: A Life, by Ron Chernow

2010: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood

2009: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust

2008: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe

2007: Andrew Carnegie, by David Nasaw

2006: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin