Cundill History Prize

Seven Essential Texts That Show the Human Side of Black Legal History

Cundill Prize Finalist Dylan C. Penningroth Recommends Patricia J. Williams, Laura F. Edwards, Charles M. Payne and More

 
By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 17, 2024
Cundill History Prize

A Quiet Giant: How Indonesia Paved the Way for Liberation Struggles Worldwide

By David Van Reybrouck  September 17, 2024
Cundill History Prize

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

By Andrew C. McKevitt  September 12, 2024
Cundill History Prize

Indigenous Agency: How Native Americans Put Limits on European Colonial Domination

By Kathleen DuVal  September 11, 2024
Cundill History Prize

How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

By Joya Chatterji  September 10, 2024
Cundill History Prize

No War Is Too Small: How Localized Conflicts Sparked Imperial Violence

By Lauren Benton  September 9, 2024
Cundill History Prize

Reckoning and Refoundation: How the Tokyo Trials Created Modern Asia

By Gary J. Bass  September 6, 2024
Cundill History Prize

Six Former Winners of the Cundill History Prize Reflect on What the Future Holds

By Literary Hub  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
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