The Ellis W. Hawley Prize

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2018     The Republic for which it stands : the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
2017     Free speech and unfree news : the paradox of press freedom in America by Sam Lebovic
2016     Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present by Gary Gerstle
2015     The invaded : how Latin Americans and their allies fought and ended U.S. occupations by Alan McPherson
2014     Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters by Kate Brown
2013     Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America by Johnathan Levy
2012     From Bible Belt to Sunbelt : plain-folk religion, grassroots politics, and the rise of evangelical conservatism by Darren Dochuk
2011     The hungry world : America's Cold War battle against poverty in Asia by Nick Cullather; Manhattan projects : the rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (honorable mention)
2010     The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America by Margot Canaday
2009     What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America by Peggy Pascoe
2008     Colored property : state policy and white racial politics in suburban America by David M. P. Freund; Inventing the "American Way" : the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights movement by Wendy L. Wall
2007     The prison and the gallows : the politics of mass incarceration in America by Marie Gottschalk
2006     Pocketbook politics : economic citizenship in twentieth-century America by Meg Jacobs
2005     Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it by Alison Isenberg
2004     For all these rights : business, labor, and the shaping of America's public-private welfare state by Jennifer Klein
2003     Regulating railroad innovation : business, technology, and politics in America, 1840-1920 by Steven W. Usselman
2002     Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight
2001     Ben Tillman & the reconstruction of white supremacy by Stephen Kantrowitz
2000     Taxing America : Wilbur Mills, Congress, and the state, 1945-1975 by Julian E. Zelizer
1999     Atlantic crossings : social politics in a progressive age by Daniel T. Rodgers
1998     The clash : a history of U.S.-Japan relations by Walter LaFeber
1997     From opportunity to entitlement : the transformation and decline of Great Society liberalism by Gareth Davies