Francis Parkman Prize - Winners

Winners

• 1958 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. for The Crisis of the Old Order
• 1959 – Ernest Samuels for Henry Adams: The Middle Years
• 1960 – Matthew Josephson for Edison: A Biography
• 1961 – Elting E. Morison for Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson
• 1962 – Leon Wolff for Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn
• 1963 – James Thomas Flexner for That Wilder Image: The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer
• 1964 – William Leuchtenburg for Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
• 1965 – Willie Lee Nichols Rose for Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
• 1966 – Daniel J. Boorstin for The Americans: The National Experience
• 1967 – William H. Goetzmann for Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
• 1969 – Winthrop Jordan for White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
• 1970 – Theodore A. Wilson for The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941
• 1971 – James MacGregor Burns for Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945
• 1972 – Joseph P. Lash for Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
• 1973 – Kenneth S. Davis for FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928
• 1974 – Robert W. Johannsen for Stephen A. Douglas
• 1975 – Robert A. Caro for The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• 1976 – Edmund S. Morgan for American Slavery, American Freedom
• 1977 – Irving Howe for World of Our Fathers
• 1978 – David McCullough for The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
• 1979 – R. David Edmunds for The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire
• 1980 – Leon F. Litwack for Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
• 1981 – Charles Royster for A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
• 1982 – William S. McFeely for Grant: A Biography
• 1983 – John R. Stilgoe for Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
• 1984 – William Cronon for Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
• 1985 – Joel Williamson for The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
• 1986 – Kenneth T. Jackson for Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
• 1987 – Michael G. Kammen for A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture
• 1988 – Eric Larrabee for Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War
• 1989 – Eric Foner for Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
• 1990 – Geoffrey C. Ward for A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
• 1991 – Paul E. Hoffman for A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
• 1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
• 1993 – David McCullough for Truman
• 1994 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race,1868-1919
• 1995 – John Putnam Demos for The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
• 1996 – Robert D. Richardson, Jr. for 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 for Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
• 1999 – Elliott West for The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
• 2000 – David M. Kennedy for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
• 2001 – Fred Anderson for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
• 2002 – Louis Menand for The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
• 2003 – James F. Brooks for Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
• 2004 – Suzanne Lebsock for A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
• 2005 – Alan Trachtenberg for Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930
• 2006 – Megan Marshall for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
• 2007 – John H. Elliott for Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
• 2008 – Jean Edward Smith for FDR
• 2009 – Jared Farmer for On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
• 2010 – Blake Bailey for Cheever: A Life
• 2011 – Jefferson Cowie for Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
• 2012 – Richard White for Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America