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Historian Charles King wins Francis Parkman Prize

June 11, 2020 GMT

NEW 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 GMT

CHAPEL 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

By HILLEL ITALIEMay 7, 2019 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Yale University historian David W. Blight, author of a celebrated biography of Frederick Douglass, can hardly keep up with all the honors...

Pulitzers given to Aretha Franklin, author Richard Powers

By HILLEL ITALIEApril 15, 2019 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, as judges praised the Queen of Soul "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture...

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