This year’s history category had two winners. Ms. DuVal was honored for “a vivid and accessible account” of Native American nations and communities over a thousand years, the committee said. Ms. Fields-Black won for “a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion.”

Everett’s novel was honored at the 2025 awards, along with other books in the categories of fiction, general nonfiction, memoir, poetry, history and biography.