2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren

Relates the events of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967, discussing it in the context of regional and international politics and examining its consequences for the Middle East….

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

Philip Dray

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller

Gregg Herken

In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Mary Beth Norton

The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

Robert W. Harms