For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, Seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500).
Awarded to "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943" by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America" by Philip Dray (Random House), and "Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America" by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (Alfred A. Knopf).