Preismedaille für Robert A. Caro aus dem Jahr 1975
Der Francis Parkman Prize ist ein Historiker-Preis der Society of American Historians , der jährlich für das beste Buch in amerikanischer Geschichte verliehen wird. Er ist nach Francis Parkman benannt und mit 2000 Dollar dotiert.
1957 – George F. Kennan für Russia Leaves the War
1958 – Arthur M. Schlesinger für The Crisis of the Old Order
1959 – Ernest Samuels für Henry Adams: The Middle Years
1960 – Matthew Josephson für Edison: A Biography
1961 – Elting E. Morison für Turmoil and Tradition: A Study of the Life and Times of Henry L. Stimson
1962 – Leon Wolff für Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century’s Turn
1963 – James Thomas Flexner für That Wilder Image: The Painting of America’s Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer
1964 – William Leuchtenburg für Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
1965 – Willie Lee Nichols Rose für Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment
1966 – Daniel J. Boorstin für The Americans: The National Experience
1967 – William H. Goetzmann für Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
1969 – Winthrop Jordan für White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812
1970 – Theodore A. Wilson für The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941
1971 – James MacGregor Burns für Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–1945
1972 – Joseph P. Lash für Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers
1973 – Kenneth S. Davis für FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882–1928
1974 – Robert W. Johannsen für Stephen A. Douglas
1975 – Robert A. Caro für The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
1976 – Edmund S. Morgan für American Slavery, American Freedom
1977 – Irving Howe für World of Our Fathers
1978 – David McCullough für The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914
1979 – R. David Edmunds für The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire
1980 – Leon F. Litwack für Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
1981 – Charles Royster für A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783
1982 – William S. McFeely für Grant: A Biography
1983 – John R. Stilgoe für Common Landscape of America, 1580–1845
1984 – William Cronon für Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
1985 – Joel Williamson für The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
1986 – Kenneth T. Jackson für Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
1987 – Michael G. Kammen für A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture
1988 – Eric Larrabee für Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War
1989 – Eric Foner für Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
1990 – Geoffrey C. Ward für A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1991 – Paul E. Hoffman für A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century
1992 – Richard White für The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
1993 – David McCullough für Truman
1994 – David Levering Lewis für W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
1995 – John Putnam Demos für The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
1996 – Robert D. Richardson für Emerson: The Mind on Fire
1997 – Drew Gilpin Faust for Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
1998 – John M. Barry für Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
1999 – Elliott West für The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
2000 – David M. Kennedy für Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
2001 – Fred Anderson für Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766
2002 – Louis Menand für The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
2003 – James F. Brooks für Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
2004 – Suzanne Lebsock für A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
2005 – Alan Trachtenberg für Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930
2006 – Megan Marshall für The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
2007 – John H. Elliott für Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830
2008 – Jean Edward Smith für FDR
2009 – Jared Farmer für On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
2010 – Blake Bailey für Cheever: A Life
2011 – Jefferson Cowie für Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
2012 – Richard White für Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
2013 – Fredrik Logevall für Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
2014 – Philip Shenon für A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
2015 – Danielle Allen für Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
2016 – Christine Leigh Heyrman für American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam
2017 – Joe Jackson für Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
2018 – Christina Snyder , Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson
2019 – David W. Blight , Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
2020 – Charles King , Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
2021 – Christopher Tomlins , In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History
2022 – Nicole Eustace , Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
2023 – John Wood Sweet , The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
2024 – David Waldstreicher , The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys through American Slavery and Independence
Daneben verleiht die Gesellschaft einen Sonderpreis für herausragende Beiträge zur Historiographie amerikanischer Geschichte, der bisher (2013) fünfmal verliehen wurde: