The Herbert Feis Award
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2005 Dictatorship and demand : the politics of consumerism in East Germany by Mark Landsman
2004 Divided mastery : slave hiring in the American South by Jonathan Martin
2003 Inside the Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro and the urban underground by Julia E. Sweig
2002 Learning to win : sports, education, and social change in twentieth-century North Carolina by Pamela C. Grundy
2001 Romancing the folk : public memory and American roots music by Benjamin Filene
2000 India's nuclear bomb : the impact on global proliferation by George Perkovich
1999 The technology of orgasm : "hysteria," the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines
1998 Discovering the unknown landscape : a history of America's wetlands by Ann Vileisis
1997 Same-sex dynamics among nineteenth-century Americans : a Mormon example by D. Michael Quinn
1996 In public houses : drink & the revolution of authority in colonial Massachusetts by David W. Conroy
1995 The new south comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860–1910 by Mark V. Wetherington
1994 Kimono : fashioning culture by Liza Crihfield Dalby
1993 Athenian economy and society : a banking perspective by Edward E. Cohen; Portia : the world of Abigail Adams by Edith B. Gelles
1992 The idea brokers : think tanks and the rise of the new policy elite by James A. Smith
1991 The Spanish Civil War : revolution and counterrevolution by Burnett Bolloten
1990 A present of things past : selected essays by Theodore Draper
1989 The irony of victory : World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts by Marc Scott Miller
1988 Proslavery : a history of the defense of slavery in America, 1701–1840 by Larry E. Tise
1987 The fatal shore by Robert Hughes
1986 A vigorous spirit of enterprise : merchants and economic development in Revolutionary Philadelphia by Thomas Doerflinger
1985 Breaking the land : the transformation of cotton, tobacco, and rice cultures since 1880 by Pete Daniel
1984 This land, this South : an environmental history by Albert E. Cowdrey