For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded to “Washington’s Crossing” by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age” by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt), and “Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2” by Michael O’Brien (The University of North Carolina Press).