Cundill History Prize

Beth Lew-Williams

Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult

Jonathan Cheng

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Sam Dalrymple

Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

Linford D. Fisher

The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's Legacy of Silence

Louise Brangan

The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews

Alexander Lee

Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean

Eric T. Jennings

Jill Lepore

Augustine the African

Catherine Conybeare

Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy

Carol Chillington Rutter

Mexico: A 500-Year History

Paul Gillingham

The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure

Barnaby Phillips

The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution

Zara Anishanslin

The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping

Joseph Torigian

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

Howard W. French

Lyndal Roper

Kornel Chang

Greg Grandin

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

Sophia Rosenfeld

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe

Marlene L. Daut

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss

Benjamin Nathans

Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor

Emily Callaci

Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique

Jonathan Gienapp

Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia

Santilla Chingaipe

Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore

Manan Ahmed Asif

How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History

Josephine Quinn

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Tiya Miles

Seth Rockman

Kathleen DuVal

Dylan C. Penningroth

Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

Gary J. Bass

David Van Reybrouck

Joya Chatterji

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

Lauren Benton

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian Jackson

Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

Catherine Hall

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Patrick Joyce

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

Ruby Lal

Tania Branigan

Alison Bashford

James Morton Turner

Douglas Ober

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

Kate Cooper

The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets

Matthew Connelly

The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

Patrick Weil

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance

Mackenzie Cooley

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

Tara Zahra

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia

Natalie Koch

Nandini Das

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

Janina Ramirez

Kerri K. Greenidge

Tiya Miles

Harald Jähner

Vladislav M. Zubok

Ada Ferrer

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo–Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

J. P. Daughton

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate

M. E. Sarotte

Mae. Ngai

Henrietta Harrison

Kelly L. Hernández

Jing Tsu

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Mark Mazower

Marjoleine Kars

Emma Rothschild

Rebecca Clifford

The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

Marie Favereau

The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India

Manan Ahmed Asif

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire

Tim Harper

Martha S. Jones

White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Tyler Stovall

Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War

Shay Hazkani

Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army

Guy de la Bédoyère

Judith Herrin

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

Linda Colley

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire

Sujit Sivasundaram

Camilla Townsend

Kerri K. Greenidge

Kim Ghattas

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Roderick Beaton

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

Richard M. Eaton

Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

Paul Lay

Vincent Brown

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Rashid Khalidi

Claudio Saunt

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Bathsheba Demuth

Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City

John Henderson

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

Pekka Hämäläinen

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner

Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

Julia Lovell

Toby Green

Victoria Johnson

David W. Blight

Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings

Helen Berry

Mary Fulbrook

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore

Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

Sunil Amrith

Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914–1948

Ramachandra Guha

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Sue Prideaux

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Steve Luxenberg

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin

Jonathan Phillips

The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction

Jay Howard Geller

Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Alexandra Popoff

Maya Jasanoff

Sam White

Tim Grady

Joshua B. Freeman

Ron Chernow

Caroline Fraser

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

David I. Kertzer

The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis

James E. Lewis Jr.

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

Tiya Miles

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Geraldine Heng

The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

David King

Daniel Beer

Walter Scheidel

Vietnam: A New History

Christopher Goscha

Joe Jackson

Heather Ann. Thompson

Lyndal Roper

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

S. A. Smith

Frances FitzGerald

Christopher de Bellaigue

Thomas W. Laqueur

Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton

Philippe Sands

Mary Beard

Robert J. Gordon

Susan Pedersen

Bettina Stangneth

Sven Beckert

Nikolaus Wachsmann

Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina

Stuart B. Schwartz

West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776

Claudio Saunt

Gary J. Bass

Geoffrey Wawro

David Van Reybrouck

The Bombing War: Europe, 1939–1945

Richard Overy

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

Andrew O'Shaughnessy

David Brion Davis

Anne Applebaum

Fredrik Logevall

Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

Christian Caryl

Tom Reiss

Christopher Clark

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941

Lynne Olson

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD

Peter Brown

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962

Yang Jisheng

Stephen R. Platt

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy

Andrew Preston

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44

Anna Reid

The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Julia Lovell

Stephen Greenblatt

Sergio Luzzatto

Timothy Snyder

Maya Jasanoff

Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe

Ulinka Rublack

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

Alan Taylor

You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery

Jeremy D. Popkin

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Marla R. Miller

The Ottoman Age of Exploration

Giancarlo Casale

Linda Gordon

Moral Combat: A History of World War II

Michael Burleigh

The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Francesca Trivellato

Lisa Jardine

David Hackett Fischer

Pekka Hämäläinen

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

John Burrow

God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215

David Levering Lewis

Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

Karl Jacoby

The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Vincent Brown

Alex Ross

The Sacco–Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

Moshik Temkin

Woody Holton

Stuart B. Schwartz

Life and Death in the Third Reich

Peter Fritzsche

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age

Harold J. Cook

After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000

John Darwin

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

Gregg Mitman

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Judith Herrin

Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population

Matthew Connelly

How Jesus Became Christian

Barrie Wilson

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

Leor Halevi

Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory

Guy Beiner

Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery

Jason R. Young

The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915

Sarah Carter

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

Erez Manela

Saul Friedländer