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2018 Landscapes of hope : nature and the Great Migration in Chicago by Brian McCammack; honorable mention: The profit of the earth : the global seeds of American agriculture by Courtney Fullilove; honorable mention: Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
2017 Blue Texas : the making of a multiracial Democratic coalition in the Civil Rights Era by Max Krochmal
2016 Pirate nests and the rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna
2015 A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life by Allyson Hobbs; honorable mention: The open mind : Cold War politics and the sciences of human nature by Jamie Cohen-Cole; Race horse men : how slavery and freedom were made at the racetrack by Katherine C. Mooney (honorable mention); Moral minorities and the making of American democracy by Kyle G. Volk (honorable mention)
2014 Standing on common ground : the making of a Sunbelt borderland by Geraldo L. Cadava; Little Manila is in the heart : the making of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton, California by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (honorable mention)
2013 Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America by Jonathan Levy
2012 The myth of American religious freedom by David Sehat; The warfare state : World War II Americans and the age of big government by James T. Sparrow (honorable mention)
2011 At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance–a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power by Danielle L. McGuire; The color of America has changed : how racial diversity shaped civil rights reform in California, 1941-1978 by Mark Brilliant (honorable mention); Texas tough : the rise of America's prison empire by Robert Perkinson; Slavery in Indian country : the changing face of captivity in early America by Christina Snyder (honorable mention)
2010 To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise by Bethany Moreton; Alien neighbors, foreign friends : Asian Americans, housing, and the transformation of urban California by Charlotte Brooks (honorable mention); The oyster question : scientists, watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 by Christine Keiner (honorable mention); A movement without marches : African American women and the politics of poverty in postwar Philadelphia by Lisa Levenstein (honorable mention)
2009 Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South by Leslie Brown
2008 The populist vision by Charles Postel
2007 Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West by Ned Blackhawk; The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism by Aaron Sachs (honorable mention)
2006 Ties that bind : the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom by Tiya Alicia Miles; Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America by Eiichiro Azuma (honorable mention)
2005 Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2004 White on arrival : Italians, race, color, and power in Chicago, 1890-1945 by Thomas A. Guglielmo
2003 Captives & cousins : slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands by James F. Brooks
2002 The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism by Adam Rome
2001 Captain Ahab had a wife : New England women & the whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling
2000 Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the roots of Black power by Timothy B. Tyson; Soul by soul : life inside the antebellum slave market by Walter Johnson
1999 From bondage to contract : wage labor, marriage, and the market in the age of slave emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley
1998 The white scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture by Neil Foley
1997 Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
1996 Songs of Zion : the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell
1995 Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey
1994 Common labour : workers and the digging of North American canals, 1780-1860 by Peter Way
1993 The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization by Daniel K. Richter
1992 When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Rámon A. Gutiérrez
1991 The roots of rural capitalism : western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 by Christopher F. Clark
1990 The Indians' new world : Catawbas and their neighbors from European contact through the era of removal by James H. Merrell
1989 Workers on the waterfront : seamen, longshoremen, and unionism in the 1930s by Bruce Nelson
1988 Anglos and Mexicans in the making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano
1987 Out of work : the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts by Alexander Keyssar
1986 Redneck liberal : Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal by Chester M. Morgan
1985 The wool-hat boys : Georgia's Populist Party by Barton C. Shaw; Chants democratic : New York City & the rise of the American working class, 1788-1850 by Sean Wilentz
1984 The roots of southern populism : yeoman farmers and the transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 by Steven Hahn
1983 Beyond separate spheres : the intellectual roots of modern feminism by Rosalind Rosenberg
1982 In struggle : SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson
1981 Henry Cabot Lodge and the search for an American foreign policy by William C. Widenor
1980 Women and men on the overland trail by John Mack Farragher
1979 Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley : the Chicago years by Charles F. Fanning, Jr.
1978 The work ethic in industrial America, 1850-1920 by Daniel T. Rodgers
1977 Harpers Ferry armory and the new technology : the challenge of change by Merritt Roe Smith
1976 No award given
1975 No award given
1974 Toward an urban vision : ideas and institutions in nineteenth-century America by Thomas H. Bender
1973 Advocacy & objectivity : a crisis in the professionalization of American social science, 1865-1905 by Mary O. Furner
1972 The crisis of democratic theory; scientific naturalism & the problem of value by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
1971 The citizen soldiers; the Plattsburg training camp movement, 1913-1920 by John Garry Clifford
1970 The politics of fear : Joseph McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith (2d ed., 1987, here)
1969 Walter Hines Page; ambassador to the Court of St. James's by Ross Gregory
1968 No award given
1967 Radicalism & reform; the Vrooman family and American social thought, 1837-1937 by Ross E. Paulson
1966 Congressional conservatism and the New Deal; the growth of the conservative coalition in Congress, 1933-1939 by James T. Patterson
1965 Erie water west; a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 by Ronald E. Shaw
1964 No award given
1963 No award given
1962 The challenge to American freedoms; World War I and the rise of the American Civil Liberties Union by Donald O. Johnson
1961 The Mexican revolution, 1914-1915; the Convention of Aguascalientes by Robert E. Quirk
1960 No award given
1959 The idea of continental union; agitation for the annexation of Canada to the United States, 1849-1893 by Donald F. Warner