Finalist: Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 , by Michael O'Brien (The University of North Carolina Press )
The Jury
The Jury
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich(chair )*
Phillips Professor of Early American History
Geoffrey Ward
independent biographer, historian and screenwriter
Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Winners in History
2005 Prize Winners
Amy Dockser Marcus
For her masterful stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
Staff
For its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities.
Staff
For its comprehensive, clear-headed coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.