Francis Parkman Prize

Der Francis Parkman Prize ist ein Historiker-Preis der Society of American Historians, der jährlich für das beste Buch in amerikanischer Geschichte verliehen wird. Er ist nach Francis Parkman benannt und mit 2000 Dollar dotiert.

Preisträger

  • 1957 – George F. Kennan für Russia Leaves the War
  • 1958 – Arthur M. Schlesinger für The Crisis of the Old Order
  • 1959 – Ernest Samuels für Henry Adams: The Middle Years
  • 1960 – Matthew Josephson für Edison: A Biography
  • 1961 – Elting E. Morison für Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson
  • 1962 – Leon Wolff für Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Turn
  • 1963 – James Thomas Flexner für That Wilder Image: The Painting of America’s Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer
  • 1964 – William Leuchtenburg für Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
  • 1965 – Willie Lee Nichols Rose für Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
  • 1966 – Daniel J. Boorstin für The Americans: The National Experience
  • 1967 – William H. Goetzmann für Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
  • 1969 – Winthrop Jordan für White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
  • 1970 – Theodore A. Wilson für The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941
  • 1971 – James MacGregor Burns für Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945
  • 1972 – Joseph P. Lash für Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers
  • 1973 – Kenneth S. Davis für FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928
  • 1974 – Robert W. Johannsen für Stephen A. Douglas
  • 1975 – Robert A. Caro für The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
  • 1976 – Edmund S. Morgan für American Slavery, American Freedom
  • 1977 – Irving Howe für World of Our Fathers
  • 1978 – David McCullough für The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
  • 1979 – R. David Edmunds für The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire
  • 1980 – Leon F. Litwack für Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
  • 1981 – Charles Royster für A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783
  • 1982 – William S. McFeely für Grant: A Biography
  • 1983 – John R. Stilgoe für Common Landscape of America, 1580–1845
  • 1984 – William Cronon für Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
  • 1985 – Joel Williamson für The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
  • 1986 – Kenneth T. Jackson für Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
  • 1987 – Michael G. Kammen für A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture
  • 1988 – Eric Larrabee für Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War
  • 1989 – Eric Foner für Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
  • 1990 – Geoffrey C. Ward für A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
  • 1991 – Paul E. Hoffman für A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
  • 1992 – Richard White für The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
  • 1993 – David McCullough für Truman
  • 1994 – David Levering Lewis für W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
  • 1995 – John Putnam Demos für The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
  • 1996 – Robert D. Richardson für 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 für Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
  • 1999 – Elliott West für The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
  • 2000 – David M. Kennedy für Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
  • 2001 – Fred Anderson für Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766
  • 2002 – Louis Menand für The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
  • 2003 – James F. Brooks für Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
  • 2004 – Suzanne Lebsock für A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
  • 2005 – Alan Trachtenberg für Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930
  • 2006 – Megan Marshall für The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
  • 2007 – John H. Elliott für Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830
  • 2008 – Jean Edward Smith für FDR
  • 2009 – Jared Farmer für On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
  • 2010 – Blake Bailey für Cheever: A Life
  • 2011 – Jefferson Cowie für Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
  • 2012 – Richard White für Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
  • 2013 – Fredrik Logevall für Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
  • 2014 – Philip Shenon für A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
  • 2015 – Danielle Allen für Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
  • 2016 – Christine Leigh Heyrman für American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam
  • 2017 – Joe Jackson für Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
  • 2018 – Christina Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson
  • 2019 – David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
  • 2020 – Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
  • 2021 – Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History
  • 2022 – Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
  • 2023 – John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement

Daneben verleiht die Gesellschaft einen Sonderpreis für herausragende Beiträge zur Historiographie amerikanischer Geschichte, der bisher (2013) fünfmal verliehen wurde:

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