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2024 Pulitzer Prize-winners announced

John Fea   |  May 7, 2024

Here are few of the winners that caught my eye: HISTORY (Winner): Jacqueline Jones, No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era. See our Author’s Corner interview with Jacqueline Jones here. […]

The National Book Award announces its longlist of finalists

John Fea   |  September 15, 2023

History is well represented in the non-fiction category: Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryYale University Press Jonathan Eig, King: A LifeFarrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers Viet Thanh Nguyen, A Man of Two Faces: […]

The American Historical Association announces 2022 prize winners

John Fea   |  October 26, 2022

Read the full list here. Here are a few that caught my eye: The Albert J. Beveridge Award in the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present: Roberto Saba (Wesleyan Univ.) for American Mirror: The United […]