| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2010 |
|
Linda Gordon |
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits |
| 2010 |
|
Woody Holton |
Abigail Adams |
| 2010 |
|
Margaret D. Jacobs |
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. |
| 2009 |
|
Drew Gilpin Faust |
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War |
| 2009 |
|
Pekka Hämäläinen |
The Comanche Empire |
| 2009 |
|
Thomas G. Andrews |
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War |
| 2008 |
|
Allan M. Brandt |
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America |
| 2008 |
|
Charles Postel |
The Populist Vision |
| 2008 |
|
Peter Silver |
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America |
| 2007 |
|
Robert D. Richardson |
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism |
| 2007 |
|
Jack T. Kirby |
Mockingbird Song |
| 2006 |
|
Sean Wilentz |
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln |
| 2006 |
|
Odd Arne Westad |
The Global Cold War |
| 2006 |
|
Erskine Clarke |
Dwelling Place |
| 2005 |
|
Michael O'Brien |
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810\u20131860 |
| 2005 |
|
Melvin Patrick Ely |
Israel on the Appomattox |
| 2005 |
|
Michael Klarman |
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights |
| 2004 |
|
Edward L. Ayers |
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859\u20131863 |
| 2004 |
|
Steven Hahn |
A Nation Under Our Feet |
| 2004 |
|
George Marsden |
Jonathan Edwards |
| 2003 |
|
Alan Gallay |
The Indian Slave Trade |
| 2003 |
|
James F. Brooks |
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands |
| 2002 |
|
Alice Kessler-Harris |
In Pursuit of Equity |
| 2002 |
|
David W. Blight |
Race and Reunion |
| 2001 |
|
Michael A. Bellesiles |
|
| 2001 |
|
David Nasaw |
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst |
| 2001 |
|
Susan Lee Johnson |
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush |
| 2000 |
|
John W. Dower |
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
| 2000 |
|
Linda Gordon |
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction |
| 2000 |
|
James Merrell |
Into the American Woods |
| 1999 |
|
Ira Berlin |
Many Thousands Gone |
| 1999 |
|
Jill Lepore |
The Name of War |
| 1999 |
|
Philip D. Morgan |
A Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Low Country |
| 1998 |
|
Thomas Sugrue |
The Origins of the Urban Crisis |
| 1998 |
|
Walter LaFeber |
The Clash |
| 1998 |
|
Christine Leigh Heyrman |
Southern Cross |
| 1997 |
|
James T. Patterson |
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 |
| 1997 |
|
David E. Kyvig |
Explicit and Authentic Acts |
| 1996 |
|
Alan Taylor |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
| 1996 |
|
David S. Reynolds |
Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography |
| 1995 |
|
John L. Brooke |
The Refiner's Fire |
| 1995 |
|
John Dittmer |
Local People |
| 1994 |
|
Winthrop Jordan |
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek |
| 1994 |
|
David Levering Lewis |
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
| 1994 |
|
Stanley Elkins |
The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788 - 1800 |
| 1993 |
|
Charles Capper |
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years |
| 1993 |
|
Melvyn P. Leffler |
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War |
| 1992 |
|
Charles Royster |
The Destructive War |
| 1992 |
|
William Cronon |
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West |
| 1991 |
|
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
A Midwife's Tale |
| 1991 |
|
Lizabeth Cohen |
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 |
| 1990 |
|
James Merrell |
The Indians' New World |
| 1990 |
|
Neil R. McMillen |
Dark Journey |
| 1989 |
|
Edmund Morgan |
Inventing the People |
| 1989 |
|
Eric Foner |
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 |
| 1988 |
|
Michael S. Sherry |
The Rise of American Air Power |
| 1988 |
|
Peter Kolchin |
Unfree Labor |
| 1987 |
|
Roger Lane |
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 |
| 1987 |
|
Thomas Doerflinger |
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia |
| 1986 |
|
Kenneth T. Jackson |
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States |
| 1986 |
|
Jacqueline Jones |
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow |
| 1985 |
|
Kenneth Silverman |
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather |
| 1985 |
|
Suzanne Lebsock |
The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784\u20131860 |
| 1984 |
|
Paul Starr |
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry |
| 1984 |
|
Louis R. Harlan |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee |
| 1983 |
|
John Putnam Demos |
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England |
| 1983 |
|
Nick Salvatore |
Eugene V. Debs |
| 1982 |
|
Mary P. Ryan |
Cradle of the Middle Class |
| 1982 |
|
Edward Countryman |
A People in Revolution |
| 1981 |
|
Ronald Steel |
Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
| 1981 |
|
Jean Strouse |
Alice James, A Biography |
| 1980 |
|
Robert Dallek |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 |
| 1980 |
|
Donald Worster |
Dust Bowl |
| 1980 |
|
Thomas Dublin |
Women at Work |
| 1979 |
|
Anthony F. C. Wallace |
Rockdale |
| 1979 |
|
Christopher Thorne |
Allies of A Kind |
| 1978 |
|
Morton Horwitz |
The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960 |
| 1978 |
|
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business |
| 1977 |
|
Alan Dawley |
Class and Community |
| 1977 |
|
Robert A. Gross |
The Minutemen and Their World |
| 1977 |
|
Barry W. Higman |
Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807\u20131834 |
| 1976 |
|
David Brion Davis |
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 |
| 1976 |
|
R. W. B. Lewis |
Edith Wharton: A Biography |
| 1975 |
|
Eugene Genovese |
Roll, Jordan, Roll |
| 1975 |
|
Robert Fogel |
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery |
| 1975 |
|
Richard Smoke |
Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice |
|
Alexander L. George |
Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice |
| 1975 |
|
Stanley Engerman |
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery |
| 1974 |
|
Ray Allen Billington |
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher |
| 1974 |
|
Stephan Thernstrom |
The Other Bostonians, Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970 |
| 1974 |
|
Townsend Hoopes |
The Devil and John Foster Dulles |
| 1973 |
|
Frances FitzGerald |
Fire in the Lake |
| 1973 |
|
John Lewis Gaddis |
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 |
| 1973 |
|
Louis R. Harlan |
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee |
| 1972 |
|
Samuel Eliot Morison |
The European Discovery of America |
| 1972 |
|
Robert Middlekauff |
The Mathers |
| 1972 |
|
Carl N. Degler |
Neither Black nor white |
| 1971 |
|
Joseph Frazier Wall |
Andrew Carnegie |
| 1971 |
|
Erik Barnouw |
The Image Empire : A History of Broadcasting in the United States |
| 1971 |
|
David M. Kennedy |
Birth Control in America |
| 1970 |
|
Gordon S. Wood |
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 |
| 1970 |
|
Dan T. Carter |
Scottsboro |
| 1970 |
|
Charles Sellers |
Charles Willson Peale |
| 1969 |
|
Winthrop Jordan |
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 |
| 1969 |
|
Norman Gordon Levin, Jr. |
Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution |
| 1969 |
|
Rexford Tugwell |
The Brains Trust |
| 1968 |
|
Bernard Bailyn |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| 1968 |
|
Richard Bushman |
From Puritan to Yankee; Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 |
| 1968 |
|
Henry Allen Bullock |
A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present |
| 1967 |
|
James Sterling Young |
The Washington Community, 1800-1828 |
| 1967 |
|
William W. Freehling |
Prelude to Civil War |
| 1967 |
|
Charles Sellers |
James K. Polk, Continentalist, 1843\u20131846. Vol. II |
| 1966 |
|
Richard Brandon Morris |
The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence |
| 1966 |
|
Theodore Friend |
Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929\u20131946 |
| 1965 |
|
Bradford Perkins |
Castlereagh and Adams |
| 1965 |
|
William Bradford Willcox |
Portrait of A General |
| 1965 |
|
Dorothy Borg |
The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933\u20131938 |
| 1964 |
|
Paul Seabury |
Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy |
| 1964 |
|
William Leuchtenburg |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940 |
| 1964 |
|
John L. Thomas |
The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison |
| 1963 |
|
Roberta Wohlstetter |
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision |
| 1963 |
|
Page Smith |
John Adams |
| 1963 |
|
John G. Stoessinger |
Might of Nations |
| 1962 |
|
Felix Gilbert |
To the Farewell Address |
| 1962 |
|
Lawrence Cremin |
The Transformation of the School |
| 1962 |
|
Martin Duberman |
Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 |
| 1961 |
|
Arthur S. Link |
Wilson |
| 1961 |
|
Merrill D. Peterson |
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind |
| 1960 |
|
Margaret Leech |
In the Days of McKinley |
| 1960 |
|
Robert Roswell Palmer |
Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe & America, 1760-1800, Volume 1 - The Challenge |
| 1959 |
|
Daniel J. Boorstin |
The Americans: The Colonial Experience |
| 1959 |
|
Ernest Samuels |
Henry Adams |
| 1958 |
|
Frank Luther Mott |
A History of American Magazines |
| 1958 |
|
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Crisis of the Old Order |
| 1957 |
|
George F. Kennan |
Russia Leaves the War |
| 1957 |
|
Arthur S. Link |
Wilson |
| 1956 |
|
James G. Randall |
Lincoln, the President |
| 1956 |
|
Elizabeth Stevenson |
Henry Adams |
| 1956 |
|
Richard N. Current |
Lincoln, the President |
| 1955 |
|
Paul Horgan |
Great River |
| 1955 |
|
Leonard D. White |
The Jacksonians |
| 1954 |
|
Clinton Rossiter |
Seedtime of the Republic |
| 1954 |
|
William L. Langer |
The Undeclared War, 1940-1941 |
| 1953 |
|
Eric F. Goldman |
Rendezvous with Destiny |
| 1953 |
|
George Dangerfield |
The Era of Good Feelings |
| 1952 |
|
Merlo J. Pusey |
Charles Evans Hughes |
| 1952 |
|
C. Vann Woodward |
Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 |
| 1951 |
|
Henry Nash Smith |
Virgin Land |
| 1951 |
|
Arthur N. Holcombe |
Our More Perfect Union |
| 1950 |
|
Herbert Eugene Bolton |
Coronado |
| 1950 |
|
Lawrence H. Gipson |
The Great War for the Empire: The Victorious Year, 1758\u20131760 |
| 1949 |
|
Samuel Eliot Morison |
The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942 |
| 1949 |
|
Robert E. Sherwood |
Roosevelt and Hopkins |
| 1948 |
|
Bernard DeVoto |
Across the Wide Missouri |
| 1948 |
|
Allan Nevins |
Ordeal of the Union |
