2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Benjamin Madley

Between 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…

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Adam Hochschild

Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region

Masha Gessen

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg