The Robert G. Athearn Award

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2018     City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernández
2017     Three roads to Magdalena : coming of age in a Southwest borderland, 1890-1990 by David Wallace Adams
2016     City Indian : Native American activism in Chicago, 1893-1934 by Rosalyn LaPier and David R.M. Beck
This prize was not awarded in 2015.
2014     Plutopia : nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters by Kate Brown
2012     Shadow tribe : the making of Columbia River Indian identity by Andrew H. Fisher
2010     White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 by Margaret Jacobs
2008     From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 by Elliot R. Barkan
2006     Democratizing the enemy : the Japanese American internment by Brian Masaru Hayashi
2004     Public lands and political meaning : ranchers, the government, and the property between them by Karen Merrill