PROSE Award for U.S. History

The PROSE Awards recognize professional and scholarly works of merit across subject areas represented in this catalog.

HistoryAward

Winners: 18
Finalists: 0
Shortlisted: 0
Longlisted: 0
First year: 2005
Latest year: 2026
Books: 39

Deadline

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Prize amount

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Criteria / coverage

Source coverage note: U.S. History records are tracked from PROSE Awards source records; eligibility follows the program rules and category archives where available.

Source coverage

100%

Sourced records

39 of 39

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Submission info

Prize history

Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations

David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla,, Victoria I. Zhuravleva

Result

Winner

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

Robin Bernstein

Result

Winner

Imprint

University of Chicago Press

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

Result

Winner

Imprint

Yale University Press

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

Result

Winner

Imprint

Harvard University Press

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Mia Bay

Result

Winner

Imprint

Harvard University Press

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

Adam Goodman

Result

Winner

Imprint

Princeton University Press

The Cigarette: A Political History

Sarah Milov

Result

Winner

Imprint

Harvard University Press

The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950

Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Result

Winner

Imprint

University of North Carolina Press

True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Emily Skidmore

Result

Winner

Imprint

New York University Press

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Mike Wallace

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

Jonathan Israel

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Princeton University Press

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War

Robert J. Gordon

Result

Winner

Imprint

Princeton University Press

Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

Caitlin Fitz

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Liveright

The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

Beth Macy

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Little, Brown

Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

David Preston

Result

Winner

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth

Terry Alford

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South

Jeff Forret

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

LSU Press

The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast

Andrew Lipman

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York

Ted Steinberg

Result

Winner

Imprint

Simon & Schuster

Chop Suey, USA

Yong Chen

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Columbia University Press

Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870

Sami Lakomaki

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport

Jaime Schultz

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

University of Illinois Press

Redemption Songs: Swing for Freedom before Dred Scott

Lea VanderVelde

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Roosevelt's Second Act

Richard Moe

Result

Winner

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

University of California Press

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

Andrew O'Shaughnessy

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation

Eric Rutkow

Result

Winner

Imprint

Scribner

Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History

John Fabian Witt

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Simon & Schuster

Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

Frank Costigliola

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Princeton University Press

Abraham Lincoln: A Life

Michael Burlingame

Result

Winner

Imprint

Johns Hopkins University Press

Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

Colin Grant

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

The Comanche Empire

Pekka Hämäläinen

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War

Brian DeLay

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Yale University Press

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848

Daniel Walker Howe

Result

Winner

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

David Brion Davis

Result

Winner

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Freedom Riders: 1961- and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Raymond Arsenault

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

Harvard University Press

Result

Winner

Imprint

Harvard University Press

Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas

David Hackett Fischer

Result

Honorable mention

Imprint

Oxford University Press

Year	Result	Book	Author	Imprint
2026	Winner	Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations	David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla,, Victoria I. Zhuravleva	Cambridge University Press
2025	Winner	Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit	Robin Bernstein	University of Chicago Press
2024	Winner	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History	Ned Blackhawk	Yale University Press
2023	Winner	Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom	Kathryn Olivarius	Harvard University Press
2022	Winner	Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance	Mia Bay	Harvard University Press
2021	Winner	The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants	Adam Goodman	Princeton University Press
2020	Winner	The Cigarette: A Political History	Sarah Milov	Harvard University Press
2019	Winner	The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950	Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt	University of North Carolina Press
2018	Winner	True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	Emily Skidmore	New York University Press
2018	Honorable mention	Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919	Mike Wallace	Oxford University Press
2018	Honorable mention	The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848	Jonathan Israel	Princeton University Press
2017	Winner	The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War	Robert J. Gordon	Princeton University Press
2017	Honorable mention	Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions	Caitlin Fitz	Liveright
2017	Honorable mention	The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition	Manisha Sinha	Yale University Press
2017	Honorable mention	Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South	Beth Macy	Little, Brown
2016	Winner	Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution	David Preston	Oxford University Press
2016	Honorable mention	Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth	Terry Alford	Oxford University Press
2016	Honorable mention	Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South	Jeff Forret	LSU Press
2016	Honorable mention	The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast	Andrew Lipman	Yale University Press
2015	Winner	Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York	Ted Steinberg	Simon & Schuster
2015	Honorable mention	Chop Suey, USA	Yong Chen	Columbia University Press
2015	Honorable mention	Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870	Sami Lakomaki	Yale University Press
2015	Honorable mention	Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women’s Sport	Jaime Schultz	University of Illinois Press
2015	Honorable mention	Redemption Songs: Swing for Freedom before Dred Scott	Lea VanderVelde	Oxford University Press
2013	Winner	Roosevelt's Second Act	Richard Moe	Oxford University Press
2013	Honorable mention	Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party	Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin, Jr.	University of California Press
2013	Honorable mention	The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire	Andrew O'Shaughnessy	Yale University Press
2012	Winner	American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation	Eric Rutkow	Scribner
2012	Honorable mention	Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History	John Fabian Witt	Simon & Schuster
2012	Honorable mention	Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War	Frank Costigliola	Princeton University Press
2008	Winner	Abraham Lincoln: A Life	Michael Burlingame	Johns Hopkins University Press
2008	Honorable mention	Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey	Colin Grant	Oxford University Press
2008	Honorable mention	The Comanche Empire	Pekka Hämäläinen	Yale University Press
2008	Honorable mention	War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War	Brian DeLay	Yale University Press
2007	Winner	What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848	Daniel Walker Howe	Oxford University Press
2006	Winner	Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World	David Brion Davis	Oxford University Press
2006	Honorable mention	Freedom Riders: 1961- and the Struggle for Racial Justice	Raymond Arsenault	Oxford University Press
2005	Winner	Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan	Harvard University Press	Harvard University Press
2005	Honorable mention	Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas	David Hackett Fischer	Oxford University Press