Mark Lynton History Prize
The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression".[1] The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism.[1][2]
The sponsor of the prize is Mark Lynton, a refugee from Nazi Germany, Second World War officer, automobile industry executive, and author of the memoir Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II.[3]
Winners
- 1999 – Adam Hochschild for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- 2000 – John W. Dower for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
- 2001 – Fred Anderson for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766
- 2002 – Mark Roseman for A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
- 2003 – Suzannah Lessard for Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl
- 2004 – Rebecca Solnit for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- 2005 – Richard Steven Street for Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913
- 2006 – Megan Marshall for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism
- 2007 – James T. Campbell for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005
- 2008 – Peter Silver for Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
- 2009 – Timothy Brook for Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
- 2010 – James Davidson for The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
- 2011 – Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
References
- ^ a b "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ The Lukas Prize Project – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
- ^ "A Heart, A Brain, and a Pair of Shoes," by Samuel G. Freedman, Salon, June 12, 1997