The John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history

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2017     This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy by Matthew Karp
2015     Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters by Kate Brown
2013     American Nietzsche : a history of an icon and his ideas by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
2011     From Bible Belt to Sunbelt : plain-folk religion, grassroots politics, and the rise of evangelical conservatism by Darren Dochuk
2009      What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America by Peggy Pascoe
2007     Inescapable ecologies : a history of environment, disease, and knowledge by Linda Lorraine Nash
2005     Vicious : wolves and men in America by Jon T. Coleman
2003     City of courts : socializing justice in progressive era Chicago by Michael Willrich
2001     The education of Laura Bridgman : first deaf and blind person to learn language by Ernest Freeberg
1999     "Asylum for mankind" : America, 1607-1800 by Marilyn Baseler
1997     Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown
1995     Farmers and fishermen : two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850 by Daniel Vickers
1993     Palatines, liberty, and property : German Lutherans in colonial British America by A. G. Roeber;  Indians, settlers & slaves in a frontier exchange economy : the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 by Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
1991     Waterfront workers of New Orleans : race, class, and politics, 1863–1923 by Eric Arnesen
1990     A midwife’s tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785–1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1989     The last of the fathers : James Madison and the Republican legacy by Drew McCoy
1988     Hoover Dam : an American adventure by Joseph E. Stevens
1987     Tobacco and slaves : the development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 by Allan Kulikoff
1986     Slavery and freedom on the middle ground : Maryland during the nineteenth century by Barbara J. Fields
1984     Eugene V. Debs : citizen and socialist by Nick Salvatore
1982     Transatlantic industrial revolution : the diffusion of textile technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s by David J. Jeremy
1980     The plains across : the overland emigrants and the trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 by John P. Unruh, Jr.
1978     Politics and power in a slave society : Alabama, 1800–1861 by J. Mills Thornton
1976     Burnham of Chicago : architect and planner by Thomas S. Hines
1974     Salem possessed : the social origins of witchcraft by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
1972     Mussolini and fascism; the view from America by John P. Diggins
1970     The creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 by Gordon S. Wood
1968     Twelve against empire; the anti-imperialists, 1898–1900 by Robert L. Beisner
1966     Toward Lexington : the role of the British Army in the coming of the American Revolution by John Willard Shy
1964     Politics, principle, and prejudice, 1865-1866; dilemma of Reconstruction America by LaWanda Cox and John H. Cox
1962     The power of the purse : a history of American public finance, 1776–1790 by E. James Ferguson
1960     Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction by Eric L. McKitrick
1958     The Jacksonian persuasion; politics and belief by Marvin Meyers
1956     Strangers in the land; patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925 by John Higham
1954     The old country store by Gerald Carson
1952     Steamboats on the Western rivers; an economic and technological history by Louis C. Hunter, with the assistance of Beatrice Hunter
1950     Virgin land : the American West as symbol and myth by Henry Nash Smith
1948     Mahan on sea power by William E. Livezey
1946     Landlords and farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk region, 1790-1850 by David Ellis
1944     Admiral Sims and the modern American Navy by Elting E. Morison
1942     Boston's immigrants, 1790-1865; a study in acculturation by Oscar Handlin (rev. & enl. ed here)
1940     Robert Dale Owen, a biography by Richard W. Leopold
1938     Business enterprise in the American Revolutionary era by Robert A. East
1937     No award
1935     The rise and fall of the Choctaw Republic by Angie Debo
1933     The mission to Spain of Pierre Soule, 1853-1855; a study in the Cuban diplomacy of the United States by Amos A. Ettinger
1931     South Carolina during Reconstruction by Francis B. Simkins and R. H. Woody
1929     Benjamin H. Hill, secession and reconstruction by Haywood J. Pearce, Jr.