Cundill History Prize

Reckoning and Refoundation: How the Tokyo Trials Created Modern Asia

From Gary J. Bass's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Judgment at Tokyo”

 
By Gary J. Bass  November 1, 2023
Cundill History Prize

How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
Cundill History Prize

The President and the Psychoanalyst: What Sigmund Freud Saw in Woodrow Wilson

By Patrick Weil  October 9, 2023
Cundill History Prize

How Recycled American Batteries Pollute Communities Around the World

By James Morton Turner  October 6, 2023
Cundill History Prize

The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
Cundill History Prize

On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
Cundill History Prize

The Italian Monk Who Foresaw Europe’s Obsession With Eugenics

By Mackenzie Cooley  October 3, 2023
Cundill History Prize

How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments

By Matthew Connelly  October 2, 2023
Cundill History Prize

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

By Alison Bashford  September 28, 2023
Cundill History Prize

How the Fight for NATO Expansion Established the Future of Global Politics

By M. E. Sarotte  October 14, 2022
Cundill History Prize

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

By Literary Hub  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon’s Descent to War

By Kim Ghattas  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

By Richard M. Eaton  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States’ Influence in the Middle East

By Rashid Khalidi  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

On Rethinking the ‘Modern’ in Modern Greece

By Roderick Beaton  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

By Vincent Brown  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

By Paul Lay  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

By Claudio Saunt  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

By Kerri K Greenidge  October 14, 2020
Cundill History Prize

The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company

By William Dalrymple  October 21, 2019
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