2008

Richard Kohn, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2007

David H. DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum

Victoria A. Harden, American University and National Institutes of Health (retired)

2005

Mark Landsman, Independent Scholar, Dictatorship and Demand: The Politics of Consumerism in East Germany (Harvard University Press, 2005)

2004

Jonathan Martin, Brooklyn New York, Divided Mastery, Slave Hiring in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2004)

2003

Julia E. Sweig, Council on Foreign Relations, Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground(Harvard University Press, 2002)

2002

Pamela C. Grundy, Independent Scholar, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina(University of North Carolina Press, 2001)

2001

Benjamin Filene, Minnesota Historical Society, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)

2000

George Perkovich, W. Alton Jones Foundation, India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (Univ. of California Press, 1999).

1999

Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria', the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

1998

Ann Vileisis, independent scholar, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands (Island Press, 1997).

1997

D. Michael Quinn, Independent Scholar, Salt Lake City, Utah, Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (U. of Illinois Press, 1996)

1996

David W. Conroy, Weymouth, Massachusetts, In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts (U. of North Carolina Press, 1995)

1995

Mark V. Wetherington, The Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, KY, The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860–1910 (U. of Tennessee Press, 1994)

1994

Liza Crihfield Dalby, Berkeley, California, Kimono: Fashioning Culture (Yale U. Press)

1993

Edward E. Cohen, State Bancshares, Philadelphia, Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective (Princeton U. Press, 1992)

Edith B. Gelles, Institute for Research on Women and Gender of Stanford U., Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (Indiana U. Press, 1992)

1992

James A. Smith, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite (Free Press, 1991)

1991

Burnett Bolloten, Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1936–1939 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1990

Theodore Draper, Princeton, New Jersey, A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays (Hill and Wang, 1990)

1989

Marc Scott Miller, sr. editor, Technology Review, The Irony of Victory: World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts (U. of Illinois Press)

1988

Larry E. Tise, American Assoc. for State and Local History, Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America, 1701–1840. (Univ. of Georgia Press)

1987

Robert Hughes, Time Magazine, The Fatal Shore (Alfred A. Knopf)

1986

Thomas Doerflinger, Payne, Weber, Inc., A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. (U. of North Carolina Press for the Inst. of Early American History and Culture)

1985

Pete Daniel, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880 (U. of Illinois Press)

1984

Albert E. Cowdrey, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., This Land, This South: An Environmental History (U. Press of Kentucky)