The History Award Index

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

John Dower · 2012

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles · 2023

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink · 2013

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan · 2010

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas · 2012

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes · 1986

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal · 2024

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Annette Gordon-Reed · 2009

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright · 2006

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann. Thompson · 2016

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877

Eric Foner · 2011

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Stephen Greenblatt · 2012

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton · 1990

Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Leon F. Litwack · 2010

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham · 2024

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Frances FitzGerald · 2014

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History

Norman Mailer · 2013

The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865

Van Wyck Brooks · 2017

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

Tina Rosenberg · 2010

Cuba: An American History

Ada Ferrer · 2021

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust · 2008

William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

Alan Taylor · 2018

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

Richard Kluger · 1997

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald · 2017

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson · 2020

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

David Brion Davis · 1988

A History of American Magazines

Frank Luther Mott · 1957

A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

Steven Hahn · 2005

Across the Wide Missouri

Bernard DeVoto · 1998

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin Boyle · 2007

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

Paul Horgan · 2014

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner · 2008

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills · 1992

Munich: The Price of Peace

Telford Taylor · 1979

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963

Taylor Branch · 2007

Roosevelt and Hopkins

Robert E. Sherwood · 2017

Russia Leaves the War

George F. Kennan · 1956

Stalingrad

Antony Beevor · 2007

The Era of Good Feelings

George Dangerfield · 1989

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

Jack E. Davis · 2017

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn · 2012

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823

David Brion Davis · 1999

White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812

Winthrop D. Jordan · 1974

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Maya Jasanoff · 2011

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji · 2023

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Alan Taylor · 2013

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

Daniel Yergin · 2012

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Diane McWhorter · 2001

Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

Eugene D. Genovese · 2011

...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Walter A. McDougall · 1997