For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898" by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age" by William E. Burrows (Random House), and "In A Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival" by Paula Mitchell Marks (William Morrow and Company, Inc.).