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The New-York Historical Society gives three book prizes annually. From 2005 to 2012, there was one award for American history. A second award was added in 2013 for children's history. A third award was added in 2016 for military history.
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, prior to 2016 known as The New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize or, simply, the American History Book Prize, is an American literary award given annually by the New-York Historical Society for an adult non-fiction book on American history or biography, copyrighted in the year of the award, "that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience."[1] The winner receives an engraved medal, $50,000 cash and the unofficial title of American Historian Laureate.[1] The inaugural award was presented in 2006 for books published in 2005.
Winners
Date is year when books were published; the following year is when the award was given. Thus the inaugural award was given in 2006 for Team of Rivals published in 2005.
- 2005 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln[2]
- 2006 David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (biography of Andrew Carnegie)[3][4]
- 2007 Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848[5]
- 2008 Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War[6]
- 2009 Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815[7]
- 2010 Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (biography of George Washington)[8]
- 2011 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (biography of George F. Kennan)[9]
- 2012 Robert Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson[10]
- 2013 Andrew O'Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire[11]
- 2014 Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman[12]
- 2015 Eric Foner, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad[13]
- 2016 Jane Kamensky, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley[14]
- 2017 John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: The Life[15]
- 2018 Benn Steil, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War [16]
- 2019 Rick Atkinson, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777[17]
- 2020 Tracy Campbell, The Year of Peril: America in 1942[18]
- 2021 Alan Taylor, American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850[19]
- 2022 Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century[20]
- 2023 Jonathan Eig, King: A Life[21]
The New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize was first awarded in 2013 for the best children's historical literature.
Winners
- 2013 Kristin Levine, The Lions of Little Rock
- 2014 Helen Frost, Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
- 2015 Pam Muñoz Ryan, Echo
- 2016 Ann E. Burg, Unbound: A Novel in Verse
- 2016 Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain’t So Awful Falafel
- 2017 Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (Authors), Yutaka Houlette (Illustrator), Fred Korematsu Speaks Up [22]
- 2018 Ellen Klages, Out of Left Field
- 2019 Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve, Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge
- 2021 Veera Hiranandani, How to Find What You're Not Looking For
- 2022 Rodman Philbrick, We Own the Sky
The Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society was first awarded in 2016 for the best book on military history in the English-speaking world. Prior to 2016, the prize was known as the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, established in 2013 by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the inaugural prize was awarded in February 2014.[23] The purpose of the prize is to increase public attention to military history for educational purposes.
Winners
- 2013 Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion '[24]
- 2014 Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918[25]
- 2015 David L. Preston, Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution[26]
- 2016 Peter Cozzens, The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West[27][28][29]
- 2017 Cathal Nolan, The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
- 2018 Andrew Lambert, Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- 2019 John C. McManus, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941–1943
- 2020 Alexander Mikaberidze, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
- 2021 Kevin J. Weddle, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
- 2022 Bruce Henderson, Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
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