The Lawrence W. Levine Award

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2018     The heart of the Mission : Latino art and politics in San Francisco by Cary Cordova
2017     Kīkā kila : how the Hawaiian steel guitar changed the sound of modern music by John W. Troutman
2016     A nation of neighborhoods : imagining cities, communities, and democracy in postwar America by  Benjamin Looker
2015     A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life by  Allyson Hobbs
2014     At the edge of sight : photography and the unseen by Shawn Michelle Smith; Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America by Teresa Barnett (honorable mention)
2013     Aloha America : hula circuits through the U.S. empire by Adria L. Imada
2012     Pox : an American history by Michael Willrich
2011     Not in this family : gays and the meaning of kinship in postwar North America by Heather Murray
2010     Foul bodies : cleanliness in early America by Kathleen M. Brown
2009     What comes naturally : miscegenation law and the making of race in America by Peggy Pascoe
2008     Tribe, race, history : Native Americans in southern New England, 1780–1880 by Daniel R. Mandell