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For a distinguished book of the year upon the history of the United States, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West , by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf )

The Jury

Henry Steele Commager(Chair)

Professor, Amherst College

Julian P. Boyd

Editor, Jefferson Papers, Princeton University

Lyman H. Butterfield

Editor, Adams Papers, Harvard University

Winners in History

1967 Prize Winners