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For the best book of the year upon the history of the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).

Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 , by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press )

The Jury

John A. Krout

Tempe, Arizona

Roy F. Nichols*

University of Pennsylvania

Winners in History

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.