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2017
For a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: Contested bodies : pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica by Sasha Turner
For a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: The INS on the line : making immigration law on the US-Mexico border, 1917-1954
2016
For a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: Dispossessed lives : enslaved women, violence, and the archive by Marisa J. Fuentes
For a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: A temperate empire : making climate change in early America by Anya Zilberstein
2015
For a first book written by a woman that deals substantially with history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: Chained in silence : Black women and convict labor in the new South by Talitha L. LeFlouria
For a first book in any field of history except gender, women, or sexuality, written by a woman: The global transformation of time : 1870-1950 by Vanessa Ogle
2014
For a first book written by a woman that deals substantially with history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America by Susanah Shaw Romney
For a first book in any field of history except gender, women, or sexuality, written by a woman: Asian slaves in colonial Mexico : from Chinos to Indians by Tatiana Seijas
2013
For a first book written by a woman that deals substantially with history of women, gender, and/or sexuality: The law of kinship : anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the family in France by Camille Robcis
For a first book in any field of history except gender, women, or sexuality, written by a woman: Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America by Teresa Barnett
2012
For best first book by a woman in the fields of women's, gender, and/or sexuality history: Aloha America : hula circuits through the U.S. empire by Adria Imada
For best first book by a woman in any field of history: Crossroads at Clarksdale : the Black freedom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after WW II by Françoise Hamlin
2011
For best first book by a woman in the fields of women's, gender, and/or sexuality history: The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America by Kate Haulman
For best first book by a woman in any field of history: The spirits and the law : vodou and power in Haiti by Kate Ramsey
2010     Slavery in Indian country : the changing face of captivity in early America by Christina Snyder; honorable mention: Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 by Jennifer Guglielmo
2009     Terror in the heart of freedom : citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the post-Emancipation South by Hannah Rosen
2008     True to her word : the faithful maiden cult in late Imperial China by Weijing Lu
2007     Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands by Juliana Barr
2006     Venomous tongues : speech and gender in late medieval England by Sandra Bardsley; Habits of compassion : Irish Catholic nuns and the origins of New York’s welfare system, 1830-1920 by Maureen Fitzgerald
2005     Birthing the nation : sex, science, and the conception of eighteenth-century Britons by Lisa Forman Cody
2004     Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America by Mae M. Ngai; Hygenic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China by Ruth Rogaski
2003     Muddied waters : race, region, and local history in Colombia, 1846-1948 by Nancy Appelbaum
2002     Postcolonial Vietnam : new histories of the national past by Patricia M. Pelley
2001     Fabricating women : the seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 by Clare Haru Crowston
2000     Gendered compromises : political cultures and the state in Chile, 1920-1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt; Colonial citizens : republican rights, paternal privilege, and gender in French Syria and Lebanon by Elizabeth Thompson
1999     Insurgent Cuba : race, nation, and revolution, 1868-1898 by Ada Ferrer
1998     The name of war : King Philip's War and the origins of American identity by Jill Lepore
1997     A mission to civilize : the republican idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 by Alice Conklin
1996     Sexuality, state, and civil society in Germany, 1700-1815 by Isabel V. Hull; Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown (Honorable mention)
1995     Florence Kelley and the nation's work : volume 1 : the rise of women's political culture, 1830-1900 by Kathryn Kish Sklar
1994     Pitied but not entitled : single mothers and the history of welfare, 1890-1935 by Linda Gordon
1993     Black neighbors : race and the limits of reform in the American settlement house movement, 1890-1945 by Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn; Women, the state, and revolution : Soviet family policy and social life, 1917-1936 by Wendy Z. Goldman
1992     Visionary Women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England by Phyllis Mack
1991     The Vietnam wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn B. Young
1990     Madame le professeur : women educators in the Third Republic by Jo Burr Margadent; A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich