Harvard professor Tiya Miles has won the 2022 Cundill History Prize for her book All that She Carried.

Administered by McGill University, the prize annually awards $75,000 US ($101,841 Cdn) to a book that demonstrates historical scholarship, literary excellence and broad appeal. It is open to books from anywhere in the world, as long as they are available in English.

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, which won the U.S. National Book Award for nonfiction in 2021, traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.

Miles is a Michael Garvey professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute. The Ohio-born writer and MacArthur Foundation fellow is the author of books The Dawn of Detroit, Ties That Bind, The House on Diamond Hill and The Cherokee Rose.

"Tiya Miles' All That She Carried is the winner, in a field of superb books, because of its clear and moving prose, its imaginative research, and the way the author illuminates the human condition through a family story," said the chair of the jury, J.R. McNeill in a statement. "The world of enslaved women in the antebellum South is, by the standards of U.S. history, extremely poorly documented, but Miles has risen to that challenge in ways that show the best of the historian's craft."

The two runner-ups are Cuba by Ada Ferrer and Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok.

Each finalist will receive $10,000 US ($13,579 Cdn).

Last year's winner was Historian Marjoleine Kars for her book, Blood on the River: a Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast.

Other past winners include Camilla Townsend, Julia Lovell, Maya Jasanoff and Daniel Beer.