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Jacqueline Jones

American historian.

Wikipedia

Portrait source · Wikimedia Commons

Recognized books

Wins

Lists

Index score

1986—2024

Recognition span

Author in the index

Jacqueline Jones has 4 books in the current index, recognized by prize programs between 1986 and 2024. The records span 3 leading prize families shown here.

Top recognition

Pulitzer Prize3

Bancroft Prize1

Frederick Douglass Book Prize1

Subject profile

History2

Race & Ethnicity2

Indexed works

Books by Jacqueline Jones

4 books · sorted by recognition

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the PresentRace & Ethnicity198514 pts No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War EraHistory202410 pts A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's AmericaRace & Ethnicity20134 pts Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil WarHistory20092 pts

Year	Title	Subject	Score	Wins	Lists	Imprint
1985	Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present	Race & Ethnicity	14	1	2	Basic Books
2024	No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era	History	10	1	1	Basic Books
2013	A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America	Race & Ethnicity	4	0	1	Basic Books
2009	Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War	History	2	0	1	Vintage Books

Prize metrics come from Book Prize Index records. Biographical description and portrait metadata are sourced from the matched Wikidata and Wikimedia records; uncertain identity matches are omitted.

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