2004

Edward L. Ayers, University of Virginia, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (W.W. Norton, 2003)

2003

Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College Park, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003)

2002

Mary A. Renda, Mount Holyoke College, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)

2001

Alexander Keyssar, Duke University, The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States. (New York: Basic Books, 2000)

2000

Linda Gordon, New York Univ. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999)

1999

Friedrich Katz, University of Chicago. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa (Stanford University Press, 1998)

1998

Philip D. Morgan, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

1997

William B. Taylor, Southern Methodist U., Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Stanford U. Press, 1996)

1996

Alan Taylor, U. of California, Davis, William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Albert A. Knopf, 1995)

1995

Ann Douglas, Columbia U., Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc., 1995)

Stephen Innes, U. of Virginia, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (W.W. Norton & Co., 1995)

1994

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, U. of Connecticut-Storrs, Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Purian Colony (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993)

1993

James Lockhart, U. of California, Los Angeles, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford U. Press 1992)

1992

Richard White, U. of Washington, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (Cambridge U. Press 1991)

1991

Richard Price, Anse Chaudiere, Martinique, Alabi’s World (John Hopkins U. Press)

1990

Jon Butler, Yale U., Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Harvard U. Press, 1990)

1989

Peter Novick, U. of Chicago, That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge U. Press)

1988

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James LeLoudis, Robert Korstad of the Southern Oral History Program, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Christopher Daly, Brookline, Mass.; Lu Ann Jones, National Museum of American History; and Mary Murphy, Butte-Silver Bow Archives, Like A Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (U. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill)

1987

Mary C. Karasch, Oakland U., Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1850 (Princeton Univ. Press)

1986

Alan S. Knight, U. of Texas at Austin, The Mexican Revolution, 2 vols (Cambridge U.P.)

1985

Nancy M. Farriss, U. of Pennsylvania, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton U.P.)

1984

Sean Wilentz, Princeton U., Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 (Oxford U.P.)

1983

Louis R. Harlan, U. of Maryland, College Park, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 (Oxford U.P.)

1982

Walter Rodney (posthumous), History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881–1905 (Johns Hopkins U.P.)

1981

Paul G.E. Clemens, Rutgers U., The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain (Cornell U.P.)

1980

John W. Reps, Cornell U., Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning (Cornell U.P.)

1979

Calvin Martin, Rutgers U., Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade (U. of California Press)

1978

John Leddy Phelan (posthumous), The People and the King: The Comunero Revolution in Columbia, 1781 (U. of Wisconsin Press)

1977

Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America (Oxford U.P.)

1976

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery—American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (W.W. Norton)

1975

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1700–1823 (Cornell U.P.)

1974

Peter H. Wood, Black Majority (Knopf)

1973

Richard L. Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1850 (Wesleyan U.P.)

1972

James T. Lemon, The Best Poor Plan’s Country (Johns Hopkins U.P.)

1971

Carl N. Degler, Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (Macmillan)

David J. Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Little)

1970

Sheldon Hackney, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama (Princeton U.P.)

Leonard L. Richards, “Gentlemen of Property and Standing”: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (Oxford U.P.)

1969

Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1968

Michael Paul Rogin, The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press)

1967

No award

1966

Herman Belz, Reconstructing the Union: Conflict of Theory and Policy during the Civil War (Cornell U.P.)

1965

Daniel M. Fox, The Discovery of Abundance (Cornell U.P.)

1964

Linda Grant DePauw, The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution (Cornell U.P.)

1963

No award

1962

Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (Cornell U.P.)

1961

Calvin DeArmond Davis, The United States and the First Hague Peace Conference (Cornell U.P.)

1960

C. Clarence Clendenen, The United States and Pancho Villa (Cornell U.P.)

Nathan Miller, The Enterprise of a Free People: Canals and the Canal Fund in the New York Economy, 1792–1838 (Cornell U.P.)

1959

Arnold M. Paul, Free Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law: Attitudes of Bar and Bench, 1887–1895 (Cornell U.P.)

1958

Paul Conkin, Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program (Cornell U.P.)

1957

David Fletcher, Rails, Mines, and Progress: Seven American Promoters in Mexico (Cornell U.P.)

1956

Paul Schroeder, The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 (Cornell U.P.)

1955

Ian C.C. Graham, Colonists from Scotland: Emigration to North America, 1707–1783 (Cornell U.P.)

1954

Arthur M. Johnson, The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines: A Study in Enterprise and Public Policy (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1953

George R. Bentley, A History of the Freedman’s Bureau (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1952

Clarence Versteeg, Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1951

Robert Twymann, History of Marshall Field and Co., 1852–1906 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1950

Glyndon G. Van Deusen, Horace Greeley: Nineteenth Century Crusader (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1949

Reynold M. Wik, Steam Power on the American Farm: A Chapter in Agricultural History, 1850–1920 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1948

Donald Fleming, John William Draper and the Religion of Science (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1947

Lewis Hanke, The Struggle for Justice in the Spanish Conquest of America (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1946

Arthur E. Bestor, Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663–1829 (U. of Pennsylvania Press)

1945

John Richard Alden, John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier (U. of Michigan Press)

1943

Harold Whitman Bradley, The American Frontier in Hawaii: The Pioneers, 1789–1843 (Stanford U.P.)

1941

Charles A. Barker, The Background of the Revolution in Maryland (Yale U.P.)

1939

John T. Horton, James Kent: A Study in Conservatism (Appleton)