Francis Parkman Prize
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The Francis Parkman Prize, named after Francis Parkman, is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year. Its purpose is to promote literary distinction in historical writing.[1] The Society of American Historians is an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
To be eligible, the book copyright must be in the previous year.
Winners of the Francis Parkman Prize:
- 1965 – Willie Lee Nichols Rose for Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
- 1966 – Daniel J. Boorstin for The Americans: The National Experience
- 1967 – William H. Goetzmann for Exploration and Empire
- 1969 – Winthrop D. Jordan for White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- 1970 – Theodore A. Wilson for The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941
- 1971 – James MacGregor Burns for Roosevelt, the Soldier of Freedom: 1940-1945
- 1972 – Joseph P. Lash for Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
- 1973 – Kenneth S. Davis for FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928
- 1974 – Robert W. Johannsen for Stephen A. Douglas
- 1975 – Robert A. Caro for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- 1976 – Edmund S. Morgan for American Slavery, American Freedom
- 1977 – Irving Howe for World of Our Fathers
- 1978 – David McCullough for The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- 1979 – R. David Edmunds for The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire
- 1980 – Leon F. Litwack for Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
- 1981 – Charles Royster for A Revolutionary People at War
- 1982 – William S. McFeely for Grant: A Biography
- 1983 – John R. Stilgoe for Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
- 1984 – William Cronon for Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
- 1985 – Joel Williamson for The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
- 1986 – Kenneth T. Jackson for Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
- 1987 – Michael G. Kammen for A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture
- 1988 – Eric Larrabee for Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War
- 1989 – Eric Foner for Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
- 1990 – Geoffrey C. Ward for A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- 1991 – Paul E. Hoffman for A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
- 1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
- 1993 – David McCullough for Truman
- 1994 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
- 1995 – John Putnam Demos for The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
- 1996 – Robert D. Richardson Jr. for Emerson: The Mind on Fire
- 1997 – Drew Gilpin Faust for Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
- 1998 – John M. Barry for Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- 1999 – Elliott West for The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
- 2000 – David M. Kennedy for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
- 2001 – Fred Anderson for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- 2002 – Louis Menand for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
- 2003 – James F. Brooks for Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
- 2004 – Suzanne Lebsock for A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
- 2005 – Alan Trachtenberg for Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930
- 2006 – Megan Marshall for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
- 2007 – John H. Elliott for Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
- 2008 – Jean Edward Smith for FDR
