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
2024 – David Waldstreicher, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence

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:

1962 Allan Nevins
1970 Samuel Eliot Morison
1974 an den Verleger Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)
1988 Forrest C. Pogue
1994 Walter Lord

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