The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression". The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 School of Journalism.

The sponsor of the prize is Mark Lynton, a refugee from Nazi Germany, WWII officer, automobile industry executive, and author of the memoir Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II.

Winners

• 1999 - Adam Hochschild
  Adam Hochschild
  Adam Hochschild is an American author and journalist.-Biography:Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964...
  
   for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed. Terror. and Heroism in Colonial Africa
• 2000 - John W. Dower
  John W. Dower
  John W. Dower is an American author and historian.Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig...
  
   for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
• 2001 - Fred Anderson
  Fred Anderson (historian)
  Fred Anderson is an American historian of early North American history.Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History...
  
   for Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
• 2002 - Mark Roseman
  Mark Roseman
  Mark Roseman is an English historian of modern Europe with particular interest in The Holocaust. He received his B.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge, M.A at Cambridge, and his PhD at University of Warwick. As of 2007 he holds the "Pat M...
  
   for A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany
• 2003 - Suzannah Lessard
  Suzannah Lessard
  Suzannah Lessard is an American writer of literary non-fiction. She has written memoir, reportorial pieces, essays and opinion.-Life:She has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, The New School, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College MFA...
  
   for Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl
• 2004 - Rebecca Solnit
  Rebecca Solnit
  Rebecca Solnit is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art....
  
   for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
• 2005 - Richard Steven Street
  Richard Steven Street
  Richard Steven Street is a photographer, historian and journalist specializing in agriculture, defined broadly. He is well-known for his multi-volume history of California farmworkers and photo essays.-Early life and education:...
  
   for Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
• 2006 - Megan Marshall
  Megan Marshall
  Megan Marshall is an American writer and scholar. She is best known as the author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, which was published in 2005. The book earned her a place as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 2006.-Biography:Marshall was born in...
  
   for The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited American Romanticism
• 2007 - James T. Campbell
  James T. Campbell
  -Life:He graduated from Yale University, in 1980, and from Stanford University, with a Ph.D. in 1989.He taught at Northwestern University and at Brown University,.He teaches at Stanford University....
  
   for Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
• 2008 - Peter Silver
  Peter Silver
  -Life:He was raised in Richmond, Indiana.He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001.He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship....
  
   for Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
• 2009 - Timothy Brook
  Timothy Brook (historian)
  Timothy James Brook , who writes as Timothy Brook and who has had many academic works published, is a distinguished historian specializing in the study of China...
  
   for Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
• 2010 - James Davidson for The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
• 2011 - Isabel Wilkerson
  Isabel Wilkerson
  Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.-Biography:...
  
   for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

External links

• Lukas Prize Project