mini|Preismedaille für Robert A. Caro aus dem Jahr 1975 Der Francis Parkman Prize ist ein Historiker-Preis der Society of American Historians, der jährlich für das beste Buch in amerikanischer Geschichte verliehen wird. Er ist nach Francis Parkman benannt und mit 2000 Dollar dotiert.
Preisträger 1957 – George F. Kennan für Russia Leaves the War 1958 – Arthur M. Schlesinger für The Crisis of the Old Order 1959 – Ernest Samuels für Henry Adams: The Middle Years 1960 – Matthew Josephson für Edison: A Biography 1961 – Elting E. Morison für Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson 1962 – Leon Wolff für Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Turn 1963 – James Thomas Flexner für That Wilder Image: The Painting of America’s Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer 1964 – William Leuchtenburg für Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1965 – Willie Lee Nichols Rose für Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment 1966 – Daniel J. Boorstin für The Americans: The National Experience 1967 – William H. Goetzmann für Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West 1969 – Winthrop Jordan für White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812 1970 – Theodore A. Wilson für The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941 1971 – James MacGregor Burns für Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945 1972 – Joseph P. Lash für Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers 1973 – Kenneth S. Davis für FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928 1974 – Robert W. Johannsen für Stephen A. Douglas 1975 – Robert A. Caro für The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 1976 – Edmund S. Morgan für American Slavery, American Freedom 1977 – Irving Howe für World of Our Fathers 1978 – David McCullough für The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 1979 – R. David Edmunds für The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire 1980 – Leon F. Litwack für Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery 1981 – Charles Royster für A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783 1982 – William S. McFeely für Grant: A Biography 1983 – John R. Stilgoe für Common Landscape of America, 1580–1845 1984 – William Cronon für Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England 1985 – Joel Williamson für The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation 1986 – Kenneth T. Jackson für Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States 1987 – Michael G. Kammen für A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture 1988 – Eric Larrabee für Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War 1989 – Eric Foner für Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 1990 – Geoffrey C. Ward für A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt 1991 – Paul E. Hoffman für A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century 1992 – Richard White für The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 1993 – David McCullough für Truman 1994 – David Levering Lewis für W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 1995 – John Putnam Demos für The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America 1996 – Robert D. Richardson für Emerson: The Mind on Fire 1997 – Drew Gilpin Faust for Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 1998 – John M. Barry für Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America 1999 – Elliott West für The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado 2000 – David M. Kennedy für Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 2001 – Fred Anderson für Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766 2002 – Louis Menand für The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America 2003 – James F. Brooks für Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands 2004 – Suzanne Lebsock für A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial 2005 – Alan Trachtenberg für Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930 2006 – Megan Marshall für The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism 2007 – John H. Elliott für Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830 2008 – Jean Edward Smith für FDR 2009 – Jared Farmer für On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape 2010 – Blake Bailey für Cheever: A Life 2011 – Jefferson Cowie für Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 2012 – Richard White für Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America 2013 – Fredrik Logevall für Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam 2014 – Philip Shenon für A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination 2015 – Danielle Allen für Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality 2016 – Christine Leigh Heyrman für American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam 2017 – Joe Jackson für Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary 2018 – Christina Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson 2019 – David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 2020 – Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century 2021 – Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History 2022 – Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America 2023 – John Wood Sweet, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America 2024 – David Waldstreicher, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence 2025 – Jon Grinspan, Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War 2026 – Bench Ansfield, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement Daneben verleiht die Gesellschaft einen Sonderpreis für herausragende Beiträge zur Historiographie amerikanischer Geschichte, der bisher (2013) fünfmal verliehen wurde: 1962 Allan Nevins 1970 Samuel Eliot Morison 1974 an den Verleger Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) 1988 Forrest C. Pogue 1994 Walter Lord
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