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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968
Publication date	2006
Pages	1,056
ISBN	0-684-85712-X
OCLC	62118415

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65
Publication date	1998
Pages	768
ISBN	0-684-80819-6
OCLC	37909869

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63
Author	Taylor Branch
Language	English
Series	America in the King Years
Subject	Martin Luther King Jr.,; Civil Rights Movement
Genre	Biography
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	1,088
ISBN	0-671-46097-8
OCLC	18383661

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America in the King Years is a three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.^[1]^[2] The three individual volumes have won a variety of awards, including the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History.^[3]

The titles of the three volumes, Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge, were all drawn from aspects of the Old Testament Book of Exodus^[4] – namely, the Crossing of the Red Sea, the manifestation of God that allowed the Israelites to travel by night, and the Promised Land, which Moses was able to see into, but did not live long enough to enter.

A one-volume summary of the series was published in 2013.

Background

In the early 1980s, Branch planned to spend three years writing about America during the civil rights era, focusing on Martin Luther King Jr. As Branch proceeded with his work, the project ended up becoming a 24-year endeavor.^[5]

Branch described his approach to writing the King trilogy as follows:

Storytelling--to do it in storytelling. I--one of the reasons I wanted to do it was that I knew this had an enormous impact, somewhat like the Civil War and Reconstruction period a century before. But most of the books I read seemed to me analytical and argumentative, reinventing new labels of analysis. And I felt that they didn't have the power to really describe what happened at the personal level, which is where I think we really learn about race across the divisions that we have.

And so I really resolved from some lessons out of my experience that I wanted to try to keep it at a storytelling level and follow the stories wherever they went. I just didn't know that there would be so many of them or that they would be from such broad context; that I'd be chronicling King's relationship with Rabbi Abraham Heschel or something like--you know, these are things that I didn't--had no way of anticipating. So I just kind of--I followed storytelling, but it tumbled me off into more worlds than I'd planned on.^[4]

Parting the Waters

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63, the first book in the trilogy, was published in 1988. Events detailed in this volume include the Montgomery bus boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, the 1963 Birmingham campaign and Children's Crusade, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

It shared the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History with James McPherson's history of the American Civil War, Battle Cry of Freedom.^[6] It also won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction,^[7] and was a 1989 finalist for the National Book Award in the Non-Fiction category.^[8]

The cover of the book uses a reversed portion of the iconic photograph of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery taken by Look magazine photographer James Karales.

Pillar of Fire

The second volume, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65, was published in 1998. It covers such events as the Assassination of President Kennedy, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and King's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize.

At Canaan's Edge

The final book in the trilogy, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968, was published in 2006. Among the subjects it covers are the Selma to Montgomery marches, the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement, Dr. King's participation in the Anti-Vietnam War movement, the Watts Riots, and the events leading up to King's assassination.

It was the winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction in 2006.^[9]

The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

A one-volume summary of Branch's trilogy, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013.

HBO miniseries

In 2010 Oprah Winfrey's production company, Harpo, announced that it would be partnering with HBO to produce a miniseries based on Branch's trilogy, to be written by Robert Schenkkan.^[10]

References

^ "King Era Trilogy". taylorbranch.com. 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ "2008 Lifetime Achievement Award". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "C-SPAN Booknotes – Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65". booknotes.org. 12 April 1998. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ Wallace, Bruce (4 February 2008). "A Conversation with Taylor Branch". The Nation. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ Kaufman, Michael T. (31 March 1989). "Books Focusing on 60's Among Pulitzer Winners". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ "Parting the Waters". taylorbranch.com. 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
^ "Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006 (video)". Chicago Humanities Festival. 5 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^ Fleming, Mike (4 May 2010). "Total Three Martin Luther King Projects: Now HBO & Oprah Developing Miniseries". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

External links

Preceded by The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876	Pulitzer Prize for History 1989 (shared with Battle Cry of Freedom)	Succeeded by In Our Image

[1] "King Era Trilogy". taylorbranch.com. 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[dayton-2] "2008 Lifetime Achievement Award". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[3] "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[book-4] "C-SPAN Booknotes – Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65". booknotes.org. 12 April 1998. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[5] Wallace, Bruce (4 February 2008). "A Conversation with Taylor Branch". The Nation. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[6] Kaufman, Michael T. (31 March 1989). "Books Focusing on 60's Among Pulitzer Winners". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[7] "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[8] "Parting the Waters". taylorbranch.com. 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

[9] "Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006 (video)". Chicago Humanities Festival. 5 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

[10] Fleming, Mike (4 May 2010). "Total Three Martin Luther King Projects: Now HBO & Oprah Developing Miniseries". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 1 February 2012.

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-'''''America in the King Years''''' is a three-volume history of the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|civil rights movement]] by [[Taylor Branch]], which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/ |title=King Era Trilogy |publisher=taylorbranch.com|year=2011|accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="dayton">{{cite web |url=http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2008-lifetime.htm |title=2008 Lifetime Achievement Award |publisher=Dayton Literary Peace Prize |accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref> The three individual volumes have won a variety of awards, including the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/History|title=History |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref>
+'''''America in the King Years''''' is a three-volume history of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and the [[Civil Rights Movement]] by [[Taylor Branch]], which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/ |title=King Era Trilogy |publisher=taylorbranch.com|year=2011|access-date=1 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="dayton">{{cite web |url=http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2008-lifetime.htm |title=2008 Lifetime Achievement Award |publisher=Dayton Literary Peace Prize |access-date=1 February 2012}}</ref> The three individual volumes have won a variety of awards, including the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/History|title=History |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=1 February 2012}}</ref>
-The titles of the three volumes, ''Parting the Waters'', ''Pillar of Fire'', and ''At Canaan's Edge'', were all drawn from aspects of the [[Old Testament]] [[Book of Exodus]]<ref name="book">{{cite web |url=http://www.booknotes.org/FullPage.aspx?SID=100454-1 |title=C-SPAN Booknotes &ndash; Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 |date=12 April 1998 |accessdate=1 February 2012 |publisher=booknotes.org}}</ref> &ndash; namely, the [[Crossing of the Red Sea]], the [[Pillar of Fire (theophany)|manifestation of God]] that allowed the Israelites to travel by night, and the [[Promised Land]], which [[Moses]] was able to see into, but did not live long enough to enter.
+The titles of the three volumes, '''''Parting the Waters''''', '''''Pillar of Fire''''', and '''''At Canaan's Edge''''', were all drawn from aspects of the [[Old Testament]] [[Book of Exodus]]<ref name="book">{{cite web |url=http://www.booknotes.org/FullPage.aspx?SID=100454-1 |title=C-SPAN Booknotes &ndash; Taylor Branch: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 |date=12 April 1998 |access-date=1 February 2012 |publisher=booknotes.org}}</ref> &ndash; namely, the [[Crossing of the Red Sea]], the [[Pillar of Fire (theophany)|manifestation of God]] that allowed the Israelites to travel by night, and the [[Promised Land]], which [[Moses]] was able to see into, but did not live long enough to enter.
+A one-volume summary of the series was published in 2013.
 ==Background==
-In the early 1980s, Branch planned to spend three years writing about America during the civil rights era, focusing on [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] As he proceeded with his work, the project ended up becoming a 24-year endeavor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/conversation-taylor-branch |title=A Conversation with Taylor Branch |first=Bruce |last=Wallace |date=4 February 2008 |accessdate=1 February 2012 |work=[[The Nation]]}}</ref>
+In the early 1980s, Branch planned to spend three years writing about America during the civil rights era, focusing on [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] As Branch proceeded with his work, the project ended up becoming a 24-year endeavor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/conversation-taylor-branch |title=A Conversation with Taylor Branch |first=Bruce |last=Wallace |date=4 February 2008 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=[[The Nation]]}}</ref>
 Branch described his approach to writing the King trilogy as follows:
-<blockquote>Storytelling--to do it in storytelling. I--one of the reasons I wanted to do it was that I knew this had an enormous impact, somewhat like the Civil War and Reconstruction period a century before. But most of the books I read seemed to me analytical and argumentative, y--reinventing new labels of analysis. And I felt that they didn't have the power to really describe what happened at the personal level, which is where I think we really learn about race across the divisions that we have.</blockquote>
+<blockquote>Storytelling--to do it in storytelling. I--one of the reasons I wanted to do it was that I knew this had an enormous impact, somewhat like the Civil War and Reconstruction period a century before. But most of the books I read seemed to me analytical and argumentative, reinventing new labels of analysis. And I felt that they didn't have the power to really describe what happened at the personal level, which is where I think we really learn about race across the divisions that we have.</blockquote>
-<blockquote>And so I really resolved from some lessons out of my experience that I wanted to try to keep it at a storytelling level and follow the stories wherever they went. I just didn't know that there would be so many of them or that they would be s--from--from such broad context; that I'd be chronicling King's relationship with Rabbi [[Abraham Heschel]] or something like--you know, these are things that I didn't--had no way of anticipating. So I just kind of stor--I followed storytelling, but it tumbled me off into more worlds than I'd planned on.<ref name="book"/></blockquote>
+<blockquote>And so I really resolved from some lessons out of my experience that I wanted to try to keep it at a storytelling level and follow the stories wherever they went. I just didn't know that there would be so many of them or that they would be from such broad context; that I'd be chronicling King's relationship with Rabbi [[Abraham Heschel]] or something like--you know, these are things that I didn't--had no way of anticipating. So I just kind of--I followed storytelling, but it tumbled me off into more worlds than I'd planned on.<ref name="book"/></blockquote>
 ==''Parting the Waters''==
-''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63'' is the first book in the trilogy, and was published in 1988. Events detailed in this volume include the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], the 1961 [[Freedom Rides]], and the 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]].
+'''''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63''''', the first book in the trilogy, was published in 1988. Events detailed in this volume include the [[Montgomery bus boycott]], the 1961 [[Freedom Rides]], the 1963 [[Birmingham campaign]] and [[Children's Crusade (1963)|Children's Crusade]], and the 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]].
-It shared the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] with [[James M. McPherson|James McPherson]]'s history of the American Civil War, ''[[Battle Cry of Freedom (book)|Battle Cry of Freedom]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/31/nyregion/books-focusing-on-60-s-among-pulitzer-winners.html|title=Books Focusing on 60's Among Pulitzer Winners |first=Michael T. |last=Kaufman |date=31 March 1989 |accessdate=1 February 2012 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> It also won the 1988 [[National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/|title=All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists|publisher=National Book Critics Circle |year=2012|accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref> and was a 1989 finalist for the [[National Book Award]] in the Non-Fiction category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/parting-the-waters/ |title=Parting the Waters |publisher=taylorbranch.com |year=2011|accessdate=2 February 2012}}</ref>
+It shared the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for History]] with [[James M. McPherson|James McPherson]]'s history of the American Civil War, ''[[Battle Cry of Freedom (book)|Battle Cry of Freedom]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/31/nyregion/books-focusing-on-60-s-among-pulitzer-winners.html|title=Books Focusing on 60's Among Pulitzer Winners |first=Michael T. |last=Kaufman |date=31 March 1989 |access-date=1 February 2012 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> It also won the 1988 [[National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/|title=All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists|publisher=National Book Critics Circle|year=2012|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427180857/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/|archive-date=27 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was a 1989 finalist for the [[National Book Award]] in the Non-Fiction category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/parting-the-waters/ |title=Parting the Waters |publisher=taylorbranch.com |year=2011|access-date=2 February 2012}}</ref>
-The cover of the book uses a portion of the iconic photograph of the 1965 march from [[Selma to Montgomery marches|Selma to Montgomery]] taken by [[Look (magazine)|''Look'' magazine]] photographer [[James Karales]].
+The cover of the book uses a reversed portion of the iconic photograph of the 1965 march from [[Selma to Montgomery marches|Selma to Montgomery]] taken by [[Look (American magazine)|''Look'' magazine]] photographer [[James Karales]].
 ==''Pillar of Fire''==
-The second volume, ''Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65'', was published in 1998. It covers such events as the [[Assassination of President Kennedy]], the [[Mississippi Freedom Summer]], and King's acceptance of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
+The second volume, '''''Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65''''', was published in 1998. It covers such events as the [[Assassination of President Kennedy]], the [[Mississippi Freedom Summer]], and King's acceptance of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
 ==''At Canaan's Edge''==
-The final book in the trilogy, ''At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968'', was published in 2006. Among the subjects it covers are the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]], the [[Watts Riots]], and the events leading up to [[Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.|King's assassination]].
+The final book in the trilogy, '''''At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968''''', was published in 2006. Among the subjects it covers are the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]], the [[Chicago Freedom Movement|1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement]], Dr. King's participation in the [[Anti-Vietnam War movement]], the [[Watts Riots]], and the events leading up to [[Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.|King's assassination]].
-It was the winner of the [[Chicago Tribune]]'s [[Heartland Prize]] for Non-Fiction in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx|title=Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006 (video) |date=5 November 2006 |accessdate=1 February 2012|publisher=[[Chicago Humanities Festival]]}}</ref>
+It was the winner of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''{{'}}s [[Heartland Prize]] for Non-Fiction in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx|title=Taylor Branch and Louise Erdrich Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2006 (video)|date=5 November 2006|access-date=1 February 2012|publisher=[[Chicago Humanities Festival]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302091659/http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/Heartland-Prize-2006-Erdrich-Branch.aspx|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
+==''The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement''==
-In 2008 Branch received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in [[Dayton, Ohio]].<ref name="dayton"/>
+A one-volume summary of Branch's trilogy, '''''The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement''''', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013.
 ==HBO miniseries==
-In 2010 [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s production company, [[Harpo Productions|Harpo]], announced that it would be partnering with [[HBO]] to produce a miniseries based on Branch's trilogy, to be written by [[Robert Schenkkan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/hbo-oprah-winfreys-harpo-team-on-america-in-the-king-years-civil-rights-mini-based-on-taylor-branch-book-trilogy/|title=Total Three Martin Luther King Projects: Now HBO & Oprah Developing Miniseries|first=Mike |last=Fleming |date=4 May 2010 |accessdate=1 February 2012 |work=[[Deadline.com]]}}</ref>
+In 2010 [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s production company, [[Harpo Productions|Harpo]], announced that it would be partnering with [[HBO]] to produce a miniseries based on Branch's trilogy, to be written by [[Robert Schenkkan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.deadline.com/2010/05/hbo-oprah-winfreys-harpo-team-on-america-in-the-king-years-civil-rights-mini-based-on-taylor-branch-book-trilogy/|title=Total Three Martin Luther King Projects: Now HBO & Oprah Developing Miniseries|first=Mike |last=Fleming |date=4 May 2010 |access-date=1 February 2012 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
-*[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/100454-1/Taylor+Branch.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Branch on ''Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65'', April 12, 1998.]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?191032-1/depth-taylor-branch ''In Depth'' interview with Branch, February 5, 2006], [[C-SPAN]]
-*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89357571 NPR's ''Fresh Air'' interview with Branch, January 16, 2006]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?6294-1/story-civil-rights-movement Interview with Branch on ''Parting the Waters'', January 16, 1989], [[C-SPAN]]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?100454-1/pillar-fire-america-king-years ''Booknotes'' interview with Branch on ''Pillar of Fire'', April 12, 1998], [[C-SPAN]]
+*[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89357571 NPR's ''Fresh Air'' interview with Branch, January 16, 2006]
 *[http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=11464 Taylor Branch speaking on ''At Canaan's Edge'' at the University of California's Walter H. Capps Center, June 19, 2006]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?194360-6/at-canaans-edge Presentation by Branch on ''At Canaan's Edge'', September 30, 2006], [[C-SPAN]]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?197838-15/america-king-years Interview with Branch on ''America in the King Years'', April 28, 2007], [[C-SPAN]]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?310639-1/the-king-years Presentation by Branch on ''The King Years'', January 22, 2013], [[C-SPAN]]
+*[https://www.c-span.org/video/?315051-7/the-king-years Presentation by Branch on ''The King Years'', September 21, 2013], [[C-SPAN]]
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+| years  = [[1989 Pulitzer Prize|1989]] (shared with [[Battle Cry of Freedom (book)|''Battle Cry of Freedom'']])
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+| after  = [[In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines|''In Our Image'']]
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+[[Category:1998 non-fiction books]]
+[[Category:2006 non-fiction books]]
+[[Category:20th-century history books]]
+[[Category:Works about Martin Luther King Jr.]]
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+[[Category:Works about the civil rights movement]]
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v t e Pulitzer Prize for History
1917–1919	With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes (1918)
1920–1939	The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith (1920) The Victory at Sea by William Sims and Burton J. Hendrick (1921) The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (1922) The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (1923) The American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (1925) A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1926) Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (1929) The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (1930) The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (1931) My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (1932) The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (1933) The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (1934) The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (1935) A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936) The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937) The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938) A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (1939)
1940–1959	Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940) The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech (1942) Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (1943) The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (1944) Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (1945) The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III (1947) Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (1948) The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (1950) The Old Northwest by R. Carlyle Buley (1951) The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (1952) The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (1953) A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1954) Great River by Paul Horgan (1955) The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (1956) Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957) Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (1958) The Republican Era, 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959)
1960–1979	In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (1960) Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961) The Triumphant Empire by Lawrence H. Gipson (1962) Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965) The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (1966) Exploration and Empire by William H. Goetzmann (1967) The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968) Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard Levy (1969) Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson (1970) Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (1971) Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler (1972) People of Paradox by Michael Kammen (1973) The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone (1975) Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (1976) The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher; 1977) The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1979)
1980–1999	Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack (1980) American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (1982) The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys Isaac (1983) Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (1985) ...The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall (1986) Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn (1987) The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce (1988) Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson (1989) Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (1989) In Our Image by Stanley Karnow (1990) A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991) The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr. (1992) The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1993) No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1995) William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor (1996) Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove (1997) Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson (1998) Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (1999)
2000–2021	Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy (2000) Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (2001) The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (2002) An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (2003) A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn (2004) Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005) Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky (2006) The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007) What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (2008) The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2010) The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011) Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2012) Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall (2013) The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor (2014) Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles (2016) Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson (2017) The Gulf by Jack E. Davis (2018) Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2019) Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (2021) Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace / Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (2022) Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (2023) No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones (2024)