Historian Charles King wins Francis Parkman Prize
June 11, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award...
Award for NC historian’s book about Mississippi city
May 16, 2020 GMTCHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A Los Angeles cultural and publishing nonprofit led by the rock band Nirvana's former bassist is giving its 10th annual book award to a University of North Carolina historian’s account of civil rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi...
Yale historian wins Parkman Prize for Frederick Douglass bio
May 7, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Yale University historian David W. Blight, author of a celebrated biography of Frederick Douglass, can hardly keep up with all the honors...