George Pendleton Prize

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2010     Transplanting the Great Society : Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace by Kristin L. Ahlberg
2009     Sex, sin, and science : a history of syphilis in America by John Parascandola
2008     Electing FDR : the New Deal campaign of 1932 by Donald Ritchie
2007     The House : the history of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini
2006     Breaking the color barrier : The U.S. Naval Academy’s first black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.
2005     America's national park roads and parkways : drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record,  edited by Timothy Davis, Todd A. Croteau, and Christopher Marston; Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge by John Ferren
2004     Sky and ocean joined : the U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 by Steven J. Dick
2003     History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense : volume 3 : strategy, money, and the new look, 1953-1956 by Richard M. Leighton
2002     Capitol builder : the shorthand Journals of Montgomery C. Meigs, 1853-1859, 1861 : a project to commemorate the United States Capitol bicentennial, 1800-2000, edited by Wendy Wolff
2001     Training to fly : military flight training, 1907-1945 by Rebecca Hancock Cameron
2000     Before this decade is out-- : personal reflections on the Apollo Program by Glen E. Swanson
1999     CIA and the Vietnam policymakers : three episodes, 1962-1968 by Harold P. Ford
1998     History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense : volume 4 : into the missile age, 1956-1960 by Robert J. Watson