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| Year | Author | Title | ||
| 2011 | Eric Foner Sara Dubow Christopher Tomlins |
The
Fiery Tale Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America |
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| 2010 | Linda Gordon Woody Holton Margaret D. Jacobs |
Dorthea
Lang: a Life Beyond Limits Abigail Adams White Mother to a Dark Race |
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| 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 | Allan M. Brandt | The Cigarette Century : the Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America | ||
| 2008 | Charles Postel | The Populist Vison | ||
| 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 Temple Kirby | Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South | ||
| 2006 | Erskine Clarke | Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic | ||
| 2006 | Odd Arne Westad | The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times | ||
| 2005 | Melvin Patrick Ely | Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War | ||
| 2005 | Michael J. Klarman | From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality | ||
| 2005 | Michael O'Brien | Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 | ||
| 2004 | Edward L. Ayers | In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863 | ||
| 2004 | Steven Hahn | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles In The Rural South From Slavery To The Great Migration | ||
| 2004 | George M. Marsden | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | ||
| 2003 | James F. Brooks | Captives And Counsins: Slavery, Kinship, And Community In The Southwest Borderlands | ||
| 2003 | Alan Gallay | The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise Of The English Empire In The American South, 1670-1717 | ||
| 2002 | David W. Blight | Race And Reunion: The Civil War In American Memory | ||
| 2002 | Alice Kessler-Harris | In Pursuit Of Equity: Women, Men, And The Quest For Economic Citizenship In 20th-Century America | ||
| 2001 | Susan Lee Johnson | Roaring Camp: The Social World Of The California Gold Rush | ||
| 2001 | David Nasaw | The Chief: The Life Of William Randolph Hearst | ||
| 2000 | John Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II | ||
| 2000 | Linda Gordon | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction | ||
| 2000 | James Hart Merrell | Into the American Woods: negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier | ||
| 1999 | Ira Berlin | Many Thousands Gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America | ||
| 1999 | Jill Lepore | The Name of War: King Philip's War and the origins of American identity | ||
| 1999 | Philip Morgan | Slave Counterpoint | ||
| 1998 | Christine Leigh Heyrman | Southern Cross: the beginnings of the Bible Belt | ||
| 1998 | Walter Lafeber | The Clash: a history of U.S.-Japan relations | ||
| 1998 | Thomas Sugrue | The Origins of the Urban Crisis | ||
| 1997 | David Kyvig | Explicit and Authentic Acts | ||
| 1997 | James Patterson | Grand Expectations: the United States, 1945-1974 | ||
| 1996 | David S. Reynolds | Walt Whitman's America: a cultural biography | ||
| 1996 | Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town | ||
| 1995 | John Brooke | The Refiner's Fire | ||
| 1995 | John Dittmer | Local People | ||
| 1994 | Stanley Elkins and Eric McKintrick | The Age of Federalism | ||
| 1994 | Winthrop Jordan | Tumult and Silence at Second Creek | ||
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1911 | ||
| 1993 | Charles Capper | Margaret Fuller | ||
| 1993 | Melvyn Leffler | A Preponderence of Power | ||
| 1992 | William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | ||
| 1992 | Charles Royster | The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans | ||
| 1991 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale: the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 | ||
| 1991 | Lizabeth Cohen | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 | ||
| 1990 | Neil McMillen | Dark Journey | ||
| 1990 | James Merrell | The Indian's New World | ||
| 1989 | Eric Foner | RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA'S UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: 1863-1877 | ||
| 1989 | Edmund S. Morgan | INVENTING THE PEOPLE: THE RISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA | ||
| 1988 | Michael S. Sherry | THE RISE OF AMERICAN AIR POWER: THE CREATION OF ARMAGEDDON | ||
| 1988 | Peter Kolchin | UNFREE LABOR: AMERICAN SLAVERY AND RUSSIAN SERFDOM | ||
| 1987 | Thomas Doerflinger | A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise | ||
| 1987 | Roger Lane | Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 | ||
| 1986 | Kenneth Jackson | Crabgrass Frontier | ||
| 1986 | Jacqueline Jones | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow | ||
| 1985 | Suzanne Lebsock | The Free Women of Petersburg | ||
| 1985 | Kenneth Silverman | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | ||
| 1984 | Louis Harlan | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee | ||
| 1984 | Paul Starr | Social Transformation of American Medicine | ||
| 1983 | John Demos | Entertaining Satan | ||
| 1983 | Nick Salvatore | Eugene V. Debs | ||
| 1982 | Edward Countryman | A People in Revolution | ||
| 1982 | Mary Ryan | Cradle of the Middle Class | ||
| 1981 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | ||
| 1981 | Jean Strouse | Alice James | ||
| 1980 | Robert Dallek | FDR and American Foreign Policy | ||
| 1980 | Thomas Dublin | Women at Work | ||
| 1979 | Christopher Thorne | Allies of a Kind | ||
| 1979 | Anthony Wallace | Rockdale | ||
| 1978 | Alfred Chandler, Jr | The Visible Hand | ||
| 1978 | Morton Horwitz | The Transformation of American Law | ||
| 1977 | Alan Dawley | Class and Community | ||
| 1977 | Robert Gross | The Minutemen and Their World | ||
| 1976 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823 | ||
| 1976 | R. W. B. Lewis | Edith Wharton | ||
| 1975 | Robert William Fogel and Stanley Enerman | Time on the Cross | ||
| 1975 | Eugene Genovese | Roll, Jordan, Roll | ||
| 1975 | Alexander George and Richard Smoke | Deterrence in American Foreign Policy | ||