| Year | Title | Author |
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| 2008 |
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 |
Daniel Walker Howe |
| 2007 |
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation |
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
| 2006 |
Polio: An American Story |
David M. Oshinsky |
| 2005 |
Washington's Crossing |
David Hackett Fischer |
| 2004 |
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration |
Steven Hahn |
| 2003 |
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 |
Rick Atkinson |
| 2002 |
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America |
Louis Menand |
| 2001 |
Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation |
Joseph J Ellis |
| 2000 |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 |
David M. Kennedy |
| 1999 |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 |
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace |
| 1998 |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion |
Edward J. Larson |
| 1997 |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
Jack N. Rakove |
| 1996 |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic |
Alan Taylor |
| 1995 |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home front in World War II |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 1994 |
No Award Given |
|
| 1993 |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
Gordon S. Wood |
| 1992 |
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties |
Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
| 1991 |
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| 1990 |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines |
Stanley Karnow |
| 1989 |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines |
James M McPherson |
| 1988 |
The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876 |
Robert Bruce |
| 1987 |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution |
Bernard Bailyn |
| 1986 |
The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age |
Walter A. McDougall |
| 1985 |
Prophets of Regulation |
Thomas K. McCraw |
| 1984 |
No Award Given |
|
| 1983 |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 |
Rhys L. Isaac |
| 1982 |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War |
C. Vann Woodward |
| 1981 |
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 |
Lawrence A. Cremin |
| 1980 |
Been in the Storm So Long |
Leon F. Litwack |
| 1979 |
The Dred Scott Case: It's Significance in American Law and Politics |
Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1978 |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business |
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. |
| 1977 |
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 |
David M. Potter (a posthumous publication) manuscript finished Don E. Fehrenbacher |
| 1976 |
Larry of Santa Fe |
Paul Horgan |
| 1975 |
Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V |
Dumas Malone |
| 1974 |
The Americans: The Democratic Experience |
Daniel J. Boorstein |
| 1973 |
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American, Civilization |
Michael Kammen |
| 1972 |
Neither Black Nor White |
Carl N. Degler |
| 1971 |
Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom |
James MacGregor Burns |
| 1970 |
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department |
Dean Acheson |
| 1969 |
Origins of the Fifth Amendment |
Leonard W. Levy |
| 1968 |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
Bernard Bailyn |
| 1967 |
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West |
William H. Goetzmann |
| 1966 |
Life of the Mind in America |
Perry Miller |
| 1965 |
The Greenback Era |
Irwin Unger |
| 1964 |
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town |
Sumner Chilton Powell |
| 1963 |
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 |
Constance McLaughlin Green |
| 1962 |
The Triumphant Empire, Thunder-Clouds in the West |
Lawrence H. Gibson |
| 1961 |
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference |
Herbert Feis |
| 1960 |
In the Days of McKinley |
Margaret Leech |
| 1959 |
The Republican Era: 1869-1901 |
Leonard D. White with the assistance of Jean Schneider |
| 1958 |
Banks and Politics in America |
Bray Hammond |
| 1957 |
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 |
George F. Kennan |
| 1956 |
Age of Reform: from Bryan to F. D. R. |
Richard Hofstadter |
| 1955 |
Great River: the Rio Grande in North American History |
Paul Horgan |
| 1954 |
A Stillness at Appomattox |
Bruce Catton |
| 1953 |
The Era of Good Feelings |
George Dangerfield |
| 1952 |
The Uprooted |
Oscar Handlin |
| 1951 |
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 |
R. Carlyle Buley |
| 1950 |
Art and Life in America |
Oliver W. Larkin |
| 1949 |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
Roy Franklin Nichols |
| 1948 |
Across the Wide Missouri |
Bernard DeVoto |
| 1947 |
Scientists Against Time |
James Phinney Baxter III |
| 1946 |
The Age of Jackson |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
| 1945 |
Unfinished Business |
Stephen Bonsal |
| 1944 |
The Growth of American Thought |
Merle Curti |
| 1943 |
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In |
Esther Forbes |
| 1942 |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 |
Margaret Leech |
| 1941 |
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 |
Marcus Lee Hansen |
| 1940 |
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
Carl Sandburg |
| 1939 |
A History of American Magazines |
Frank Luther Mott |
| 1938 |
The Road to Reunion, 1856-1900 |
Paul Herman Buck |
| 1937 |
The Flowering of New England |
Van Wyck Brooks |
| 1936 |
The Constitutional History of the United States |
Andrew C. McLaughlin |
| 1935 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
Charles McLean Andrews |
| 1934 |
The People's Choice |
Herbert Agar |
| 1933 |
The Significance of Sections in American History |
Frederick J. Turner |
| 1932 |
My Experiences in the World War |
John J. Pershing |
| 1931 |
The Coming of the War: 1914 |
Bernadotte E. Schmitt |
| 1930 |
The War of Independence |
Claude H. Van Tyne |
| 1929 |
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 |
Fred Albert Shannon |
| 1928 |
Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols. |
Vernon Louis Parrington |
| 1927 |
Pickney's Treaty |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
| 1926 |
The History of the United States |
Edward Canning |
| 1925 |
A History of the American Frontier |
Frederic L. Paxson |
| 1924 |
The American Revolution - A Constitutional Interpretation |
Charles Howard McIlwain |
| 1923 |
The Supreme Court in United States History |
Charles Warren |
| 1922 |
The Founding of New England |
James Truslow Adams |
| 1921 |
The Victory at Sea
| William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick |
| 1920 |
Justin H. Smith |
The War with Mexico, 2 vols. |
| 1919 |
No Award given |
| 1918 |
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 |
James Ford Rhodes |
| 1917 | With Americans of Past and Present Days | J.J. Jusserand
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