Francis Parkman Prize Winners

The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually for the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year. This award is sponsored b...more

Winners

	Cheever by Blake Bailey 4.18 avg rating — 258 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2010)	My rating:
	On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape by Jared Farmer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2009)	My rating:
	FDR by Jean Edward Smith 4.13 avg rating — 600 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2008)	My rating:
	Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott 3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2007)	My rating:
	The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall 4.16 avg rating — 266 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2006)	My rating:
	Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 by Alan Trachtenberg 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2005)	My rating:
	A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial by Suzanne Lebsock 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2004)	My rating:
	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks 3.42 avg rating — 45 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2003)	My rating:
	The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand 4.05 avg rating — 1,404 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2002)	My rating:
	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson 4.22 avg rating — 292 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2001)	My rating:
	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy 4.25 avg rating — 599 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (2000)	My rating:
	The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West 3.87 avg rating — 67 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1999)	My rating:
	Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry 4.19 avg rating — 1,028 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1998)	My rating:
	Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust 3.91 avg rating — 212 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1997)	My rating:
	Emerson by Robert D. Richardson 4.47 avg rating — 150 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1996)	My rating:
	The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos 3.53 avg rating — 339 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1995)	My rating:
	W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis 4.25 avg rating — 208 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1994)	My rating:
	Truman by David McCullough 4.30 avg rating — 9,104 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1993)	My rating:
	The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (Studies in North American Indian History) by Richard White 4.00 avg rating — 143 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1992)	My rating:
	A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century by Paul E. Hoffman 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating Francis Parkman Prize (1991)	My rating:
	A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1990)	My rating:
	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner 4.20 avg rating — 415 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1989)	My rating:
	Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War by Eric Larrabee 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1988)	My rating:
	A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture by Michael Kammen 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1987)	My rating:
	Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson 3.85 avg rating — 379 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1986)	My rating:
	The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation by Joel Williamson 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1985)	My rating:
	Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon 3.90 avg rating — 577 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1984)	My rating:
	Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 by John R. Stilgoe 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1983)	My rating:
	Grant, a Biography by William S. McFeely 3.71 avg rating — 98 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1982)	My rating:
	A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster 3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings Francis Parkman Prize (1981)	My rating: