Among the recipients of these awards is a history of Native Americans, as well as an investigation of racism on social media.
The Mark Lynton History Prize, which is worth $10,000, was awarded to Ned Blackhawk for his book "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History," which was awarded a National Book Award in the fall of last year
The book "Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed" written by Dashka Slater was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which provides an additional $10,000 in recognition. The Lukas book prize has been awarded to "Accountable," which is the first book with a target readership of young people.
Two novels, "Body Weather: Notes on Illness in the Anthropocene" by Lorraine Boissoneault and "The Life and Death of the American Worker:
The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company" by Alice Driver, were honored with Lukas Work-in-Progress prizes, each of which was worth $25,000, respectively.
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are the organizations that are responsible for presenting these honors
which were established in 1998 and named after the late author and investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize with distinction. Previous recipients include Isabel Wilkerson, Jill Lepore, and Robert Caro, among others.
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