Richard W. Leopold Prize

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2017     Pershing's crusaders : the American soldier in World War I by Richard S. Faulkner.
2016     Bringing God to men : American military chaplains and the Vietnam War by Jacqueline E. Whitt
2014     The wars for Asia, 1911–1949 by S. C. M. Paine
2012     Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 by William A. Dobak
2010     The road to Yucca Mountain : the development of radioactive waste policy in the United States by J. Samuel Walker
2008     Von Braun : dreamer of space, engineer of war by Michael J. Neufeld
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.
2004     American soldiers : ground combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam by Peter S. Kindsvatter
2002     Spies and commandos : how America lost the secret war in North Vietnam by Dale Andradé and Kenneth Conboy
2000     Reporting Vietnam : media and military at war by William M. Hammond
1998     To see the unseen : a history of planetary radar astronomy by Andrew J. Butrica
1996     Elements of controversy : the Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974 by Barton C. Hacker
1994     The origins of SDI, 1944-1983 by Donald R. Baucom
1992     Press gallery : Congress and the Washington correspondents by Donald A. Ritchie
1990     Atoms for peace and war, 1953-1961 : Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission by Richard Greening Hewlett and Jack M. Holl
1988     The United States and Italy, 1940-1950 : the politics and diplomacy of stabilization by James Edward Miller
1986     History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, volume 1 : the formative years, 1947-1950 by Steven L. Rearden
1984     A patron for pure science : the National Science Foundation's formative years, 1945-1957 by J. Merton England