A longlist of 15 books covering historical periods ranging from the German Peasants’ War of 1524 to the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s to the U.S. occupation of Korea following the Second World War has been announced for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.

The $75,000 (U.S.) prize, administered by McGill University, is awarded annually to a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.

The longlist was selected by a jury comprised of chair – and 2022 Cundill finalist – Ada Ferrer and historians and writers Sunil Amrith, François Furstenberg, Afua Hirsch, and Francesca Trivellato.

The longlisted titles are:

• Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore by Manan Ahmed Asif (The New Press)
• Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci (Allen Lane/Penguin Random House)
• A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under US Occupation by Kornel Chang (The Belknap Press of Harvard University)
• Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia by Santilla Chingaipe (Scribner Australia/Simon & Schuster Australia)
• The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut (Knopf/PEnguin Random House)
• Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique by Jonathan Gienapp (Yale University Press)
• America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press)
• Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles (Penguin Press)
• To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans (Princeton University Press)
• How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History by Josephine Quinn (Random House)
• Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman (University of Chicago Press)
• Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper (John Murray Press/Hachette Book Group)
• The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld (Princeton University Press)
• The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West by Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University Press)
• Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Saqi Books)

A shortlist will be announced in September, with finalists to be named in early October and the winner to be announced on Oct. 30 at an event in Montreal.