Looking at recent winners of the Francis Parkman Prize, I'm noticing a theme

The Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published the previous year that is distinguished by its literary merit.

Allegedly.

How fricking woke is academia these days?!?

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2022 Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Liveright)

2021 Christopher Tomlins, In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Princeton University Press)

2020 Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Doubleday)

2019 David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster)

2018 Christina Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers & Slaves in the Age of Jackson (Oxford University Press)

2017 Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2016 Christine Leigh Heyrman, American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam (Hill and Wang)

2015 Danielle Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Liveright/W.W. Norton)

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