The Jamestown Prize

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2015     Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570–1640 by David Wheat
2013     New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America by Susanah Shaw Romney
2009     Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672–1752 by Will Pettigrew
2005     American curiosity : cultures of natural history in the British Atlantic world by Susan Scott Parrish
1995     In the midst of perpetual fetes : the making of American nationalism, 1776–1820 by David Waldstreicher
1993     The persistence of empire : British political culture in the age of the American Revolution by Eliga H. Gould
1990     Indians, settlers & slaves in a frontier exchange economy : the Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 by  Daniel H. Usner
1986     River gods and related minor deities : the Williams family and the Connecticut River Valley, 1637–1790 by Kevin M. Sweeney
1982     A people's army : Massachusetts soldiers and society in the Seven Years' War by Fred Anderson
1980     The practice of piety : Puritan devotional disciplines in seventeenth-century New England by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
1976     In English ways : the movement of societies and the transferal of English local law and custom to Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century by David Grayson Allen
1975     The development of American citizenship, 1608–1870 by James H. Kettner
1972     Sugar and slaves : the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713 by Richard S. Dunn
1968     The Otis Family, in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts by John J. Waters, jr.
1967     The Democratic Republicans of New York; the origins, 1763–1797 by Alfred F. Young
1963     Fisher Ames, Federalist and statesman, 1758–1808 by Winfred E. A. Bernhard
1962     Saints and sectaries; Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Emery Battis
1961     Travels in North America in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, by the Marquis de Chastellux, edited by Howard C. Rice, jr.
1958     The antifederalists; critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 by Jackson Turner Main
1957     Robert Livingston, 1654-1728, and the politics of colonial New York by Lawrence H. Leder