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2024 Winner

Kathleen DuVal - Native Nations: A Millenium in North America

Biography

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is also a coauthor of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.

Book Summary

A sweeping 1,000-year history of the power of Indigenous North America, from ancient cities to fights for sovereignty that continue today.

Native Nations: A Millenium in North America - Kathleen DuVal
Kathleen DuVal

Finalist

Gary J. Bass - Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Biography

Gary J. Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Blood Telegram, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Book Summary

Gary J. Bass’ Judgement at Tokyo is a magnificent, riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years that set the stage for the postwar era in the Asia–Pacific.

Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia - Gary J. Bass
Gary J. Bass

Finalist

Dylan C. Penningroth - Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Biography

Dylan C. Penningroth is a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley. A MacArthur Prize fellow and author of The Claims ofKinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.

Book Summary

Before the Movement is an account of Black legal lives that looks beyond the Constitution and the criminal justice system to recover a rich, broader vision of Black life--a vision allied with, yet distinct from, “the freedom struggle.”

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights - Dylan C. Penningroth
Dylan C. Penningroth