2016 Awards

2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerAn American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873Benjamin MadleyBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supp...Amazon2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann ThompsonAmazonSpain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939Adam HochschildAmazonWhere the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous RegionMasha GessenAmazonWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold...