Orange, Blight Among Society of American Historians Honorees

The Society of American Historians has announced the winners of three prizes honoring historical writing of exceptional literary merit. The 62nd annual Francis Parkman Prize is awarded to David W. Blight for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster). The 14th SAH Prize for Historical Fiction is awarded to Tommy Orange for There There (Alfred A. Knopf). The 59th annual Allan Nevins Prize is awarded to Jonathan Lande for his dissertation, “Disciplining Freedom: U.S. Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation in the Civil War.”

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