Mark Lynton History Prize Winners

The Mark Lynton History Prize is awarded by the Columbia Journalism School to a book-length work of history on any topic that best combines intellectu ...more

Winners

	Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska 4.30 avg rating — 106 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge 4.08 avg rating — 158 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart 4.04 avg rating — 278 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco 4.34 avg rating — 804 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin 4.46 avg rating — 1,171 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder 4.34 avg rating — 827 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann 4.53 avg rating — 1,746 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion by Harold Holzer 4.02 avg rating — 198 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore 3.67 avg rating — 4,500 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro 4.36 avg rating — 17,839 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Common Sense: A Political History by Sophia Rosenfeld 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 96,562 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greeks & Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World by James Davidson 3.79 avg rating — 129 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook 3.84 avg rating — 2,283 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver 3.72 avg rating — 259 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell 3.97 avg rating — 65 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall 4.12 avg rating — 1,324 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit 4.15 avg rating — 1,484 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert W. Harms 3.89 avg rating — 244 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany by Mark Roseman (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 99 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 by Fred Anderson 4.17 avg rating — 3,987 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 4.14 avg rating — 4,379 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild 4.16 avg rating — 57,065 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

nominees

	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 5,571 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers by Amanda Frost 4.29 avg rating — 86 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman 4.16 avg rating — 234 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth 4.08 avg rating — 295 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning by Géraldine Schwarz 4.31 avg rating — 1,226 ratings Mark Lynton History Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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