George Pendleton Prize

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2017     National Park roads : a legacy in the American landscape by Timothy Davis
2016     Toward "thorough, accurate, and reliable" : a History of the Foreign relations of the United States series by William B. McAllister, Joshua Botts, Peter Cozzens, and Aaron W. Marrs
2015     A very principled boy : the life of Duncan Lee, Red spy and cold warrior by Mark A. Bradley
2014     The American Senate : an insider's history by Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Baker
2013     Yamashita's ghost : MacArthur's justice, and command accountability by Allan Ryan
2012     1812 : the Navy's war by George C. Daughan
2011     The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic by William P. Leeman
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