1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Roy Porter

Explores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities…

Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture

Kathy Peiss

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Ira Berlin

Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Philip D. Morgan

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

Nancy Tomes