1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Nicholas Lemann
A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policy…
1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
Kevin Brownlow
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Philip A. Kuhn
Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
Robert C. Tucker
