Finalists for the 2024 Cundill History Prize announced

The Cundill History Prize, the world’s leading prize for a work of history written or translated into English, has named its 2024 finalists.

Gary J. Bass, the William P Bowell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War at Princeton (Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia); Kathleen DuVal, Professor of Early American History at the University of North Carolina (Native Nations: A Millennium in North America); and Dylan C. Penningroth, Professor of Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley (Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights) will each receive US$10,000 as finalists and are now in the running for the US$75,000 prize.Challenging dominant narratives, these ground-breaking writers provide new ways of seeing and understanding both our history and the present day.