Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American CenturyWinner [1]
1981 Ray Allen Billington Land of Savagery/Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth CenturyWinner [2]
1982 Jonathan D. Spence The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980Winner [3]
1983 Fernand Braudel The Wheels of CommerceWinner [4]
1984 Robert Darnton The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History Winner [5]
1985 Evan S. Connell Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn Winner [6]
1986 Geoffrey Hosking The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from WithinWinner [7]
1987 Robert Jay Lifton The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide Winner [8]
1988 Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 Winner [9]
1989 Neal Gabler An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood Winner [10]
1990 Richard Fletcher The Quest for El CidWinner [11]
David Fromkin A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East Finalist [11]
Jon Butler Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Denis Mack Smith Italy and its Monarchy
Jonathan D. Spence The Search for Modern China
1991 Nicholas Lemann The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaWinner [12]
Kevin Brownlow Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent EraFinalist [12]
Philip A. Kuhn Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Robert C. Tucker Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
Daniel Yergin The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
1992 Alexander Stille Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under FascismWinner [13]
Noel Mostert Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa’s Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa PeopleFinalist [13]
Robert P. Newman Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China
Greg Mitchell The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People
1993 Anthony Grafton New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryWinner [14]
Dan Morgan Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” family in Search of the American DreamFinalist [14]
Alain Peyrefitte and Jon Rothschild The Immobile Empire
James C. Cobb The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
Jane Hamilton-Merritt Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
1994 George Chauncey Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 Winner [15]
Leonard Dinnerstein Anti-Semitism in AmericaFinalist [15]
George Sanchez Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
John Boswell Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe
Elizabeth Wayland Barber Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
1995 Jackson Lears Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in AmericaWinner [16]
Robert Jensen Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeFinalist [16]
Ian Hacking Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
John Egerton Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
David HollowayStalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
1996 Neal Ascherson Black Sea Winner [17]
Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Finalist [17]
Kevin Starr Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California
Norman Davies Europe: A History
Lawrence H. Keeley War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
Alan Taylor William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
1997 Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution Winner [18]
Serge Schmemann Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian VillageFinalist [18]
Peter N. Stearns Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
Saul Friedländer Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
Geoffrey Moorhouse Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
1998 Roy Porter The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityWinner [19]
Kathy Peiss Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty CultureFinalist [20]
Ira Berlin Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Philip D. Morgan Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Nancy Tomes The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
1999 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Winner [19]
David Haward Bain Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental RailroadFinalist [21]
David M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
John Keegan The First World War
Peter Novick The Holocaust in American Life
2000 Alice Kaplan The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert BrasillachWinner [19]
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Finalist [22]
Tim Judah Kosovo: War and Revenge
Shareen Blair Brysac Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
Alexander Keyssar The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
2001 Rick Perlstein Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American ConsensusWinner [19]
Julian Jackson France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944Finalist [23]
Louis Menand The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
G.E. Bentley Jr. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake
Garry Wills Venice: Lion City
2002 Michael B. Oren Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Winner [19]
Philip Dray At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black AmericaFinalist [24]
Gregg Herken Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
Mary Beth Norton In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Robert W. Harms The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
2003 Henry Wiencek An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of AmericaWinner [25]
Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History Finalist [25]
Louis Crompton Homosexuality and Civilization
David Maraniss They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Timothy Tackett When the King Took Flight
2004 Geoffrey R. Stone Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism Winner [26]
Richard Steven Street Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913Finalist [26]
Max Frankel High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Alfred F. Young Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich: Volume 1 of The Third Reich Series
2005 Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Winner [27]
Christopher Bayly and Tim HarperForgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945Finalist [28]
Tony Judt Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Sean Wilentz The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Richard J. Evans The Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich Series
2006 Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Winner [29] [30]
Taylor Branch At Canaan’s Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68Finalist [31]
Nathaniel Philbrick Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
John TaymanThe Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Niall Ferguson The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
2007 Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Winner [32]
Margaret MacMillan Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the WorldFinalist [32]
David A. Bell The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Andrew Nagorski The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II
Lynne Olson Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
2008 Mark Mazower Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled EuropeWinner [33] [34]
Rick Wartzman Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of WrathFinalist [35]
Michael Dobbs One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Thomas J. Sugrue Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
2009 Kevin Starr Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963Winner [36]
Gordon S. Wood Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 Finalist [37]
Amy Louise Wood Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Martha A. Sandweiss Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
2010 Thomas Powers The Killing of Crazy HorseWinner [38]
John W. Dower Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq [39]
Susan Dunn Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party
Ron Chernow Washington: A Life
Steven SolomonWater: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
2011 Richard White Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern AmericaWinner [40]
Adam Goodheart 1861: The Civil War AwakeningFinalist [41]
Rachel Polonsky Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
Adam Hochschild To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
2012 Fergus M. Bordewich America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the UnionWinner [42] [43]
Amy S. Greenberg A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of MexicoFinalist [44]
George BlackEmpire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
John M. Barry Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Geoffrey Kabaservice Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
2013 Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Winner [45]
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman FDR and the Jews Finalist [46]
Doris Kearns Goodwin The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Alan Taylor The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Glenn Frankel The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
2014 Adam Tooze The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 Winner [47] [48]
Mark Harris Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World WarFinalist [49]
Walter Isaacson The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Judith Flanders The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
Lawrence Wright Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
2015 Dan Ephron Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of IsraelWinner [50]
Jonathan M. Bryant Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship AntelopeFinalist [50]
David Maraniss Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
Mary Beard SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mark Molesky This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
2016 Benjamin Madley An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873Winner [51]
Heather Ann Thompson Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Finalist [52]
Adam Hochschild Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Masha Gessen Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
Nancy Isenberg White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
2017 Dan Egan The Death and Life of the Great LakesWinner [53]
Richard Rothstein The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Finalist [53]
Frances FitzGerald The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Mark Bowden Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Stephen Alford London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City
2018 Julia Boyd Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945Winner [54]
2019 Stephanie Jones-Rogers They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Winner [55] [56]
2020 Martha S. Jones Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllWinner [57] [58]
Alice L. Baumgartner South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil WarFinalist [59]
Adam GoodmanThe Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants
Walter Johnson The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
David Vine The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
2020 Ada Ferrer Cuba: An American History Winner [60]
Mia Bay Traveling Black: A Story of Race and ResistanceFinalist [60]
Mae Ngai The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Olivette Otele African Europeans: An Untold History
Alaina E. Roberts I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
2022 Margaret Burnham By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal ExecutionersWinner [61]
Hugh EakinPicasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to AmericaFinalist [61]
Kerri K. Greenidge The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Andrew M. WehrmanThe Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
Donald Yacovone Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity
2023 Joya Chatterji Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth CenturyWinner [62]
Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryFinalist [62]
Malcolm Harris Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Blair L.M. KelleyBlack Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Nikki M. Taylor Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance

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