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1917 With Americans of past and present days by His Excellency J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador of France to the United States (Project Gutenberg)
1918 A history of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1919 No award
1920 The war with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (Google Books)
1921 The victory at sea by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Project Gutenberg)
1922 The founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (Google Books)
1923 The Supreme Court in United States history by Charles Warren (Google Books)
1924 The American Revolution : a constitutional interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
1925 History of the American frontier, 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson
1926 A history of the United States by Edward Channing
1927 Pinckney's treaty; America's advantage from Europe's distress, 1783-1800 by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1928 Main currents in American thought; an interpretation of American literature from the beginnings to 1920 by Vernon Louis Parrington
1929 The organization and administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
1930 The war of independence; American phase, being the second volume of a history of the American republic by Claude H. Van Tyne
1931 The coming of the war, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
1932 My experiences in the world war by John J. Pershing
1933 The significance of sections in American history by Frederick J. Turner
1934 The people's choice, from Washington to Harding; a study in democracy by Herbert Agar
1935 The colonial period of American history by Charles McLean Andrews
1936 A constitutional history of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
1937 The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
1938 The road to reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
1939 A history of American magazines by Frank Luther Mott
1940 Abraham Lincoln : the war years by Carl Sandburg
1941 The Atlantic migration, 1607-1860; a history of the continuing settlement of the United States by Marcus Lee Hansen
1942 Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
1943 Paul Revere & the world he lived in by Esther Forbes
1944 The growth of American thought by Merle Curti (3d ed (1964) here)
1945 Unfinished business by Stephen Bonsal
1946 The age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
1947 Scientists against time by James Phinney Baxter 3rd
1948 Across the wide Missouri by Bernard De Voto
1949 The disruption of American democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
1950 Art and life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (Rev. & enlgd. ed. here)
1951 The Old Northwest; pioneer period, 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
1952 The uprooted; the epic story of the great migrations that made the American people by Oscar Handlin
1953 The era of good feelings by George Dangerfield
1954 A stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1955 Great river : the Rio Grande in North American history by Paul Horgan
1956 The age of reform; from Bryan to F.D.R. by Richard Hofstadter
1957 Soviet-American relations, 1917-1920 : volume 1 : Russia leaves the war by George F. Kennan
1958 Banks and politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond
1959 The Republican era, 1869-1901; a study in administrative history by Leonard D. White, with the assistance of Miss Jean Schneider
1960 In the days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1961 Between war and peace; the Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1962 The British Empire before the American Revolution : volume 10 : The triumphant empire : thunder-clouds gather in the west, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1963 Washington : volume 1 : Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1964 Puritan village : the formation of a New England town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1965 The greenback era; a social and political history of American finance, 1865-1879 by Irwin Unger
1966 The life of the mind in America, from the revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller
1967 Exploration and empire : the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann
1968 The ideological origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1969 Origins of the Fifth Amendment; the right against self-incrimination by Leonard W. Levy
1970 Present at the creation : my years in the State Department by Dean Acheson
1971 Roosevelt : the soldier of freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1972 Neither Black nor white; slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States by Carl N. Degler
1973 People of paradox : an inquiry concerning the origins of American civilization by Michael Kammen
1974 The Americans : the democratic experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1975 Jefferson and his time by Dumas Malone
1976 Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times by Paul Horgan
1977 The impending crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter; completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1978 The visible hand : the managerial revolution in American business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1979 The Dred Scott Case : its significance in American law and politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1980 Been in the storm so long : the aftermath of slavery by Leon F. Litwack
1981 American education : the national experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1982 Mary Chesnut's Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward
1983 The transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1984 No award
1985 Prophets of regulation : Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn by Thomas K. McCraw
1986 The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age by Walter A. McDougall
1987 Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1988 The launching of modern American science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1989 Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era by James M. McPherson
1989 Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
1990 In our image : America's empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1991 A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1992 The fate of liberty : Abraham Lincoln and civil liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1993 The radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1994 No award
1995 No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1996 William Cooper's town : power and persuasion on the frontier of the early American republic by Alan Taylor
1997 Original meanings : politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1998 Summer for the gods : the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion by Edward J. Larson
1999 Gotham : a history of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
2000 Freedom from fear : the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
2001 Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2002 The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
2003 An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
2004 A nation under our feet : black political struggles in the rural South from slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn
2005 Washington's crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2006 Polio : an American story by David M. Oshinsky
2007 The race beat : the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2008 What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2009 The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2010 Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world by Liaquat Ahamed
2011 The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery by Eric Foner
2012 Malcolm X : a life of reinvention by Manning Marable
2013 Embers of war : the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
2014 The internal enemy : slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
2015 Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people by Elizabeth A. Fenn
2016 Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America by T. J. Stiles
2017 Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2018 The Gulf : the making of an American sea by Jack E. Davis