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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