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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsThomas W. Laqueur201622 pts4 wins4 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Meetings with Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel201616 pts2 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryConstitutional History+2
Janesville: An American StoryAmy Goldstein201714 pts2 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterSociety & CultureEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace199810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first languageSadiqa de Meijer202110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual WorldSara E. Johnson20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical ArchiveMark Anthony Neal20224 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressArts & CriticismBlack History & Culture+3
From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern WorldPamela H. Smith20224 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
Halfway HomeReuben Miller20214 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777Rick Atkinson20194 pts1 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological BoundariesAlcides N. Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Valderez Pinto Ferreira20184 pts1 wins1 listsWileyScienceArt, Music & Performance+3
Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistoryRobin Derricourt20184 pts1 wins1 listsManchester University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary SourcesGary Urton20174 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressHistoryEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since DarwinTim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie20144 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in LiteratureJohannes Haubold20134 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
EvolutionDonald R. Prothero20074 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressScienceBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Making of the FittestSean B. Carroll20064 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceArt, Music & Performance+3
Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British MuseumStephanie Moser20064 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+1
Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British EmpireMaya Jasanoff20054 pts1 wins1 listsFourth EstateHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
The End of the SoulJennifer Michael Hecht20034 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressPolitics & GovernmentEducation & Universities+3
The Boilerplate RhinoDavid Quammen20004 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentLiterature & Writers+3
The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic JerusalemOleg Grabar19964 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+2
John William Draper and the Religion of ScienceDonald Fleming19484 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Pennsylvania PressBiographyReligion & Religious Movements+3
The Human Fossil Record: Volume Three, Brain Endocasts - The Paleoneurological EvidenceRalph L. Halloway, Douglas C. Broadfield,, Michael S. Yuan20044 pts1 wins1 listsWileyScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British DissentPriyamvada Gopal20204 pts0 wins1 listsVerso BooksHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost StoryKate Summerscale20204 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburySociety & CultureArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Betsy Ross and the Making of AmericaMarla R. Miller20104 pts0 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyBiographyAmerican Civil War+2
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio MasterpieceJonathan Harr20054 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Literary Underground of the Old RegimeRobert Darnton19824 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal AffairAndy Logan19714 pts0 wins1 listsOrionHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+1
With Americans of Past and Present DaysJean Jules Jusserand19174 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two: The Iron LadyJohn Campbell20034 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseBiographyArchives, Museums & Historical Method+3
Those Who ForgetGéraldine Schwarz20212 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical CritiqueJonathan Gienapp20242 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social MemoryGuy Beiner20062 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Wisconsin PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of CivilizationJean-Luc Pilon, Nicholette Prince20160 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Toronto PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+1
Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary HistoryXiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford20080 pts0 wins1 listsColumbia University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia ArcheologyRebecca Yamin20080 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Human Fossil Record Volume 4Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Ian Tattersall20050 pts0 wins1 listsWileyScienceRegional & Local History+1
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of CapitalismWilliam J. Baumol20020 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+3
| 2016 | The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains | Thomas W. Laqueur | History | 22 | 4 | 4 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts | Christopher de Hamel | History | 16 | 2 | 3 | Allen Lane | Penguin Random House |
| 2017 | Janesville: An American Story | Amy Goldstein | Society & Culture | 14 | 2 | 2 | Simon & Schuster | Simon & Schuster |
| 1998 | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 2021 | alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language | Sadiqa de Meijer | Memoir & Autobiography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2023 | Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World | Sara E. Johnson | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2022 | Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive | Mark Anthony Neal | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2022 | From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World | Pamela H. Smith | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Halfway Home | Reuben Miller | True Crime & Justice | 4 | 1 | 1 | Little, Brown | Hachette Book Group |
| 2019 | The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777 | Rick Atkinson | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Henry Holt and Company | Macmillan |
| 2018 | Chemostratigraphy Across Major Chronological Boundaries | Alcides N. Sial, Claudio Gaucher, Muthuvairavasamy Ramkumar, Valderez Pinto Ferreira | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Wiley | Wiley |
| 2018 | Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistory | Robin Derricourt | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Manchester University Press | Manchester University Press |
| 2017 | Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources | Gary Urton | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Texas Press | University of Texas Press |
| 2014 | Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin | Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2013 | Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature | Johannes Haubold | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 2007 | Evolution | Donald R. Prothero | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Columbia University Press | Columbia University Press |
| 2006 | The Making of the Fittest | Sean B. Carroll | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | W. W. Norton | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2006 | Wondrous Curiosities: Ancient Egypt at the British Museum | Stephanie Moser | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Chicago Press | University of Chicago Press |
| 2005 | Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire | Maya Jasanoff | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Fourth Estate | HarperCollins |
| 2003 | The End of the Soul | Jennifer Michael Hecht | Politics & Government | 4 | 1 | 1 | Columbia University Press | Columbia University Press |
| 2000 | The Boilerplate Rhino | David Quammen | Nature & Environment | 4 | 1 | 1 | Scribner | Simon & Schuster |
| 1996 | The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem | Oleg Grabar | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 1948 | John William Draper and the Religion of Science | Donald Fleming | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of Pennsylvania Press | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 2004 | The Human Fossil Record: Volume Three, Brain Endocasts - The Paleoneurological Evidence | Ralph L. Halloway, Douglas C. Broadfield,, Michael S. Yuan | Science | 4 | 1 | 1 | Wiley | Wiley |
| 2020 | Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent | Priyamvada Gopal | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Verso Books | Verso Books |
| 2020 | The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story | Kate Summerscale | Society & Culture | 4 | 0 | 1 | Bloomsbury | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2010 | Betsy Ross and the Making of America | Marla R. Miller | Biography | 4 | 0 | 1 | Henry Holt and Company | Macmillan |
| 2005 | The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece | Jonathan Harr | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1982 | The Literary Underground of the Old Regime | Robert Darnton | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Harvard University Press | Harvard University Press |
| 1971 | Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair | Andy Logan | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Orion | Hachette UK |
| 1917 | With Americans of Past and Present Days | Jean Jules Jusserand | History | 4 | 0 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2003 | Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two: The Iron Lady | John Campbell | Biography | 4 | 0 | 2 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2021 | Those Who Forget | Géraldine Schwarz | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | Scribner | Simon & Schuster |
| 2024 | Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique | Jonathan Gienapp | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2006 | Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory | Guy Beiner | History | 2 | 0 | 1 | University of Wisconsin Press | University of Wisconsin Press |
| 2016 | First Peoples of Canada: Masterworks from the Canadian Museum of Civilization | Jean-Luc Pilon, Nicholette Prince | History | 0 | 0 | 1 | University of Toronto Press | University of Toronto Press |
| 2008 | Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History | Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford | Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | Columbia University Press | Columbia University Press |
| 2008 | Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archeology | Rebecca Yamin | History | 0 | 0 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2005 | Human Fossil Record Volume 4 | Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Ian Tattersall | Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | Wiley | Wiley |
| 2002 | The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism | William J. Baumol | Business & Economics | 0 | 0 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
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All awards · Topic: Archives, Museums & Historical Method · Sorted by score · 40 books · filtered