Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History

Joya Chatterji

Blair L.M. Kelley

Nikki M. Taylor

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

Ned Blackhawk

Margaret Burnham

Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America

Hugh Eakin

Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity

Donald Yacovone

The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

Andrew M. Wehrman

Kerri K. Greenidge

Ada Ferrer

Martha S. Jones

Olivette Otele

I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

Alaina E. Roberts

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Alice L. Baumgartner

Walter Johnson

Mae. Ngai

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

Adam Goodman

The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State

David Vine

Mia. Bay

Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Julia Boyd

Dan Egan

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Mark Bowden

London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City

Stephen Alford

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

Frances FitzGerald

Benjamin Madley

Heather Ann. Thompson

Adam Hochschild

Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region

Masha Gessen

Nancy Isenberg

Dan Ephron

Jonathan M. Bryant

Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

David Maraniss

Mary Beard

This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

Mark Molesky

Adam Tooze

Mark Harris

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Walter Isaacson

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

Judith Flanders

Lawrence Wright

Christopher Clark

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Alan Taylor

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

Glenn Frankel

Fergus M. Bordewich

Amy S. Greenberg

Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

George Black

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

John M. Barry

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

Geoffrey Kabaservice

Richard White

Adam Goodheart

Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History

Rachel Polonsky

The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination

Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)

Adam Hochschild

Thomas Powers

John W. Dower

Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party

Susan Dunn

Ron Chernow

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Steven Solomon

Kevin Starr

Gordon S. Wood

Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940

Amy Louise Wood

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

Martha A. Sandweiss

Richard Holmes

Mark Mazower

Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Rick Wartzman

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Michael Dobbs

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

Thomas J. Sugrue

Drew Gilpin Faust

Tim Weiner

Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

David A. Bell

The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II

Andrew Nagorski

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England

Lynne Olson

Lawrence Wright

Taylor Branch

Nathaniel Philbrick

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

John Tayman

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

Niall Ferguson

Adam Hochschild

Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper

Tony Judt

Sean Wilentz

The Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich Series

Richard J. Evans

Geoffrey R. Stone

Richard Steven Street

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Max Frankel

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier

Alfred F. Young

The Coming of the Third Reich: Volume 1 of The Third Reich Series

Richard J. Evans

Henry Wiencek

Anne Applebaum

Homosexuality and Civilization

Louis Crompton

David Maraniss

When the King Took Flight

Timothy Tackett

Michael B. Oren

Philip Dray

Gregg Herken

In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Mary Beth Norton

The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

Robert W. Harms

Rick Perlstein

France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

Julian Jackson

Louis Menand

The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake

G.E. Bentley Jr.

Venice: Lion City

Garry Wills

Alice Kaplan

Nathaniel Philbrick

Kosovo: War and Revenge

Tim Judah

Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

Shareen Blair Brysac

Alexander Keyssar

John Dower

David Haward Bain

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy

The First World War

John Keegan

The Holocaust in American Life

Peter Novick

Roy Porter

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture

Kathy Peiss

Ira. Berlin

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Philip D. Morgan

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

Nancy Tomes

Orlando Figes

Serge Schmemann

Peter N. Stearns

Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939

Saul Friedländer

Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Neal Ascherson

Richard Kluger

Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California

Kevin Starr

Norman Davies

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

Lawrence H. Keeley

Alan Taylor

Jackson Lears

Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Robert Jensen

Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

Ian Hacking

Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

John Egerton

Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956

David Holloway

George Chauncey

Leonard Dinnerstein

George Sanchez

Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe

John Boswell

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Anthony Grafton

Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” family in Search of the American Dream

Dan Morgan

The Immobile Empire

Alain Peyrefitte and Jon Rothschild

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity

James C. Cobb

Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992

Jane Hamilton-Merritt

Alexander Stille

Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa’s Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People

Noel Mostert

Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China

Robert P. Newman

The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics

Greg Mitchell

Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People

Ramón Eduardo Ruiz

Nicholas Lemann

Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era

Kevin Brownlow

Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

Philip A. Kuhn

Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941

Robert C. Tucker

Daniel Yergin

Richard Fletcher

David Fromkin

Jon Butler

Italy and its Monarchy

Denis Mack Smith

The Search for Modern China

Jonathan D. Spence

Neal Gabler

Eric Foner

Robert Jay Lifton

Geoffrey Hosking

Evan S. Connell

Robert Darnton

Fernand Braudel

Jonathan D. Spence

Ray Allen Billington

Ronald Steel