Award Winners

Justice in Plain Sight

How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

Intimate Strangers

A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

The First Atomic Bomb

The Trinity Site in New Mexico

Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

Black Cowboys of Rodeo

Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West

If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom

The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans

Sports and Aging

A Prescription for Longevity

Baseball

The Turbulent Midcentury Years

Hydronarratives

Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky

A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky

Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

Ted Kooser

More Than a Local Wonder

America and the Holocaust

A Documentary History

Without Warning

The Tornado of Udall, Kansas

Dirt Persuasion

Civic Environmental Populism and the Heartland's Pipeline Fight

Private Way

A Novel

We Are Not Animals

Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

Union General

Samuel Ryan Curtis and Victory in the West

Connected Soldiers

Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War

Chasing the Ghost Bear

On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast

The Forsaken and the Dead

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three

Stories from Saddle Mountain

Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

Loserville

How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

The Women Who Built Omaha

A Bold and Remarkable History

Award Finalists

The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico

Revolution, Reform, and Repression

Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

Disaster on the Spanish Main

The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear

If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

The Incarceration of Native American Women

Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery through Gentle Action Theory

Little Poison

Paul Runyan, Sam Snead, and a Long-Shot Upset at the 1938 PGA Championship

The First Migrants

How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration

Galloping Gourmet

Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill

Baseball

The Turbulent Midcentury Years

Delivered Under Fire

Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail

Oracle of Lost Causes

John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Ted Kooser

More Than a Local Wonder

Cotton Candy

Poems Dipped Out of the Air

Changing Woman

A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre

Citizen Justice

The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

Without Warning

The Tornado of Udall, Kansas

The Grapes of Conquest

Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920

Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Acetylene Torch Songs

Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

Urban Homelands

Writing the Native City from Oklahoma

The Forsaken and the Dead

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

Twenty Miles of Fence

Blueprint of a Cowboy

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

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