Albert J. Beveridge Award Winners

The Albert J. Beveridge Award is given annually for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 t ...more

Winners

	American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 by Jeremy Zallen 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism by Nan Enstad 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive by Camilla Townsend 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration by David A. Chang 4.44 avg rating — 79 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies by Ann Twinam 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 863 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn 3.98 avg rating — 699 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown 4.16 avg rating — 1,084 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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 Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail by W. Jeffrey Bolster 4.07 avg rating — 143 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation by Rebecca J. Scott 4.03 avg rating — 110 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent 3.88 avg rating — 7,977 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 by John Robert McNeill 4.11 avg rating — 309 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 415 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Politics and Society in Modern America, 67) by Scott Kurashige 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America by Allan M. Brandt 4.07 avg rating — 443 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren 3.75 avg rating — 130 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War by Melvin Patrick Ely 4.07 avg rating — 108 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 by Edward L. Ayers 4.03 avg rating — 475 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin 4.02 avg rating — 281 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 by Mary A. Renda 3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States by Alexander Keyssar 4.05 avg rating — 261 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon 3.77 avg rating — 503 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz 4.27 avg rating — 183 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (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
	Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan 3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1998)	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
	Magistrates of the Sacred: Parish Priests and Indian Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico by William B. Taylor 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1997)	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
	William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor 4.03 avg rating — 594 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1996)	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
	Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England by Stephen Innes 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1995)	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
	Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas 3.90 avg rating — 167 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1995)	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
	Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1994)	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 Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries by James Lockhart 4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings Albert J. Beveridge Award (1993)	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