For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, Two thousand dollars ($2,000).
Main Currents in American Thought, by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt)
Volumes One and Two; Volume Three was incomplete at the time of his death and published posthumously by his colleagues in 1930.
The Jury
The Jury
Winners in History
1928 Prize Winners
Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
For "May His Shadow Never Grow Less."
Grover Cleveland Hall of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
For his editorials against gangsterism, floggings and racial and religious intolerance.