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Congratulations to the following AHA members who were recently honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board as winners and finalists for 2025:

Prize for History

  • Edda Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), winner, for Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (Oxford Univ. Press)
  • Kathleen DuVal (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), winner, for Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House)
  • Seth Rockman (Brown Univ.), finalist, for Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (Univ. of Chicago Press)

Prize for General Nonfiction

  • Benjamin Nathans (Univ. of Pennsylvania), winner, for To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton Univ. Press)
  • Rachel Nolan (Boston Univ.), finalist, for Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala (Harvard Univ. Press)

Prize for Biography

  • David Greenberg (Rutgers Univ.), finalist, for John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster)