Mark Lynton History Prize

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The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual $10,000 award given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression". [1] The prize is one of three awards given as part of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism [2] and by the Columbia University School of Journalism. [3]

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The prize is named in honor of Mark Lynton, a refugee from Nazi Germany, Second World War officer, and automobile industry executive. In 1939 Lynton was a Jewish German-born student studying history at Cambridge when he and other German nationals were rounded up and interned in detention camps in England and Canada as enemy aliens, suspected of being Nazi sympathizers. When Lynton was released, he joined the British Army, became a tank commander, and was later promoted to Major in the occupying force, Army of the Rhine, where he helped interrogate high-ranking Nazi officers. Lynton memorialized his odyssey in his memoir, Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II. [4] The prize was established by his wife, Marion, children, Lili and Michael, and grandchildren, Lucinda, Eloise Lynton and Maisie Lynton, to honor Lynton who was an avid reader of history. The Lynton family has underwritten the Lukas Prize Project since its inception in 1998.

Recipients

Award winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1999 Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Winner
2000 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Winner
2001 Fred Anderson Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766Winner
2002 Mark Roseman A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi GermanyWinner
2003 Robert W. Harms The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of Slave Trade Winner
2004 Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Winner
2005 Richard Steven Street Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913Winner
2006 Megan Marshall The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American RomanticismWinner [5]
2007 James T. Campbell Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005Winner [6]
2008 Peter Silver Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early AmericaWinner
2009 Timothy Brook Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World Winner [7]
2010 James Davidson The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient WorldWinner
2011 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Winner [8]
Patrick Wilcken Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in His LaboratoryFinalist [8]
2012 Sophia Rosenfeld Common Sense: A Political History Winner [9]
Michael Willrich Pox: An American HistoryFinalist [10]
Craig Harline Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern AmericaFinalist [10]
2013 Robert Caro The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Winner [11]
David Nasaw The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. KennedyFinalist [11]
2014 Jill Lepore Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane FranklinWinner [12]
Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Finalist [12]
2015 Harold Holzer Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion Winner [13]
Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life Finalist [13]
2016 Nikolaus Wachsmann KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration CampsWinner [14]
Timothy Snyder Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Finalist [14]
Sean McMeekin The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923Shortlist [15]
Jan Jarboe Russell The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prison Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War IIShortlist [15]
T. J. Stiles Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Shortlist [15]
2017 Tyler Anbinder City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New YorkWinner [16] [17]
Adam Hochschild Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Finalist [16] [17]
Ethan Michaeli The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed AmericaShortlist [18]
Joan QuigleyJust Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s CapitalShortlist [18]
David Reid The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire - Politics, Art and BohemiaShortlist [18]
2018 Stephen Kotkin Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Winner [19]
Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Finalist [19]
Edward L. Ayers The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of AmericaShortlist [20]
Jonathan Eig Ali: A Life Shortlist [20]
Frances FitzGerald The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaShortlist [20]
2019 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Winner [21]
Andrew Delbanco The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil WarWinner [21]
David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist [21]
Edith Sheffer Asperger's ChildrenShortlist [22]
Steven J. Zipperstein Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History Shortlist [22]
2020 Kerri K. Greenidge Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe TrotterWinner [23] [24]
Daniel Immerwahr How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United StatesFinalist [23] [24]
Carrie Gibson El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America Shortlist [25] [26]
Pekka Hämäläinen Lakota AmericaShortlist [25] [26]
Brendan Simms HitlerShortlist [25] [26]
2021 William G. Thomas III A Question Of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil WarWinner [27] [28]
Martha S. Jones Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllFinalist [27] [28]
Walter Johnson The Broken Heart of AmericaShortlist [29] [30]
Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising Shortlist [29] [30]
Géraldine Schwarz Those Who ForgetShortlist [29] [30]
2022 Jane Rogoyska Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for TruthWinner [31] [32]
Katie Booth The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End DeafnessFinalist [31] [32]
Noah Feldman The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of AmericaShortlist [33] [34]
Amanda Frost You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the DreamersShortlist [33] [34]
Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Shortlist [33] [34]
2023 Deborah Cohen Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarWinner [35]
Kelly Lytle Hernández Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire & Revolution in the BorderlandsFinalist [35]
Beverly Gage G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Shortlist [36]
Kerri K. Greenidge The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American FamilyShortlist [36]
Pekka Hämäläinen Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North AmericaShortlist [36]
2024 Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Winner [37]
Gary J. Bass Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaFinalist [37]
Jonathan Eig King: A Life Shortlist [38]
Dylan C. Penningroth Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil RightsShortlist [38]
Yepoka Yeebo Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the WorldShortlist [38]
2025 Kathleen DuVal Native Nations: A Millennium in North AmericaWinner [39]
Edda L. Fields-Black COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil WarFinalist [40]
Seth Rockman Plantation Goods: A Material History of American SlaveryFinalist [41]
Justene Hill Edwards Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s BankShortlist [42]
Michael Waters The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern SportsShortlist [42]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Neiman Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Lynton, Mark (1995). Accidental journey : a Cambridge internee's memoir of World War II (1. ed.). Woodstock [u.a.]: Overlook Press. pp.  276. ISBN   978-0879515775.
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  7. ↑ "Awards: Lukas Winners; Orange Award for New Writers Shortlist". Shelf Awareness . 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
  8. 1 2 "Awards: Pulitzer, Lukas Winners". Shelf Awareness . 2011-04-19. Archived from the original on January 18, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
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  32. 1 2 "Awards: Rathbones Folio, Lukas Winners". Shelf Awareness . 2022-03-24. Archived from the original on January 11, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
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  42. 1 2 Schaub, Michael (2025-02-19). "Shortlists for 2025 Lukas Prizes Announced". Kirkus Reviews . Archived from the original on 2025-02-19. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
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