Year                Author                                  Title

    2000              John Dower                    Embracing Defeat
                           Linda Gordon                  The Great Arizona Orphan
                                                                                              Abduction
                           James Merrell               Into the Woods

   1999               Ira Berlin                       Many Thousands Gone
                           Jill Lepore                      The Name of War
                           Philip Morgan                  Slave Counterpoint

    1998              Christine Leigh               Southern Cross
                                  Heyrman

                           Walter Lafeber              The Clash
                           Thomas Sugrue               The Origins of the Urban
                                                                                          Crisis

    1997               David Kyvig                      Explicit and Authentic Acts
                           James Patterson             Grand Expectations

    1996               David Reynolds               Walt Whitman's America
                           Alan Taylor                      William Cooper's Town

    1995               John Brooke                    The Refiner's Fire
                            John Dittmer                   Local People

    1994               Stanley Elkins and
                            Eric McKintrick                The Age of Federalism
                           Winthrop Jordan              Tumult and Silence at Second
                                                                                          Creek
                           David Levering Lewis        W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of
                                                                              a Race 1868-1919

    1993              Charles Capper                    Margaret Fuller
                          Melvyn Leffler                    A Preponderence of Power

   1991               Laurel Thatcher Ulrich        A Midwife's Tale

   1990              Neil McMillen                      Dark Journey
                          James Merrell                    The Indian'sNew World

   1987              Thomas Doerflinger            A Vigorous Spirit of
                                                                                Enterprise
                          Roger Lane                          Roots of Violence in Black
                                                                                Philadelphia, 1860-1900

   1986               Kenneth Jackson                 Crabgrass Frontier
                          Jacqueline Jones                 Labor of Love, Labor of
                                                                                 Sorrow

   1985               Suzanne Lebsock                The Free Women of
                                                                                 Petersburg
                           Kenneth Silverman             The Life and Times of
                                                                                Cotton Mather
 

   1984                Louis Harlan                        Booker T. Washington:
                                                                             The Wizard of Tuskegee
                           Paul Starr                           Social Transformation of
                                                                             American Medicine

    1983               John Demos                         Entertaining Satan
                           Nick Salvatore                     Eugene V. Debs

    1982               Edward Countryman           A People in Revolution
                           Mary Ryan                           Cradle of the Middle Class

    1981               Ronald Steel                       Walter Lippmann and the
                                                                        American Century
                           Jean Strouse                     Alice James

    1980               Robert Dallek                     FDR and American
                                                                          Foreign Policy
                           Thomas Dublin                     Women at Work
                            Donald Worster                   Dust Bowl

    1979              Christopher Thorne             Allies of a Kind
                          Anthony Wallace                  Rockdale

    1978              Alfred Chandler, Jr.           The Visible Hand
                          Morton Horwitz                   The Transformation of
                                                                             American Law

     1977             Alan Dawley                          Class and Community
                          Robert Gross                        The Minutemen and
                                                                             Their World
                          Barry Higman                        Slave Population and
                                                                            Economy in Jamaica
     1976            David Brion Davis                   The Problem of Slavery
                                                                            in the Age of Revolution
                                                                               1770-1823
                          R. W. B. Lewis                         Edith Wharton

     1975             Robert William Fogel and
                             Stanley Enerman               Time on the Cross
                          Eugene Genovese                    Roll, Jordan, Roll
                          Alexander George and
                           Richard Smoke                     Deterance of
                                                                        AmericanForeign Policy
    1974
                         Ray Allen Billington
                         Frederick Jackson Turner
                         Townsend Hoopes                   The Devil and John
                                                                              Foster Dulles
                         Stephen Thernstrom               The Other Bostonians

     1973            Frances FitzGerald                  Fire in the Lake
                         John Lewis Gaddis                    The United States
                                                                              andthe Origins of the
                                                                                      Cold War
                         Louis Harlan                              Booker T. Washington

     1972            Carl Degler                               Neither Black Nor
                                                                                  White
                         Robert Middlekauff                 The Mathers
                         Samuel Eliot Morison                The European
                                                                             Discovery of
                                                                                America

    1971               Erik Barnouw                            The Image Empire
                          David Kennedy                          Birth Control in
                                                                               America
                          Joseph Frazier Wall                Andrew Carnegie
    1970              Don Carter                                Scottsboro
                          Charles Sellers
                          Charles Wilson Peale
                          Gordon Wood                            The Creation of the
                                                                              American Republic

    1969              Winthrop Jordan                      White Over Black
                          N. Gordon Levin, Jr.                   Woodrow Wilson and
                                                                                World Politics
                          Rexford Guy Tugwell               The Brains Trust

    1968              Bernard Bailyn                          The Ideological
                                                                               Origins of the
                                                                               American Revolution
                           Henry Allan Bullock                 A History of Negro
                                                                                Education in the
                                                                                      South
                           Richard Bushman                      From Puritan to
                                                                                  Yankee

    1967               William Freehling                      Prelude to Civil War
                           Charles Sellers                        James K. Polk,
                                                                               Continentalist,
                                                                                 Volume 2
                           James Sterling Young             The Washington
                                                                                Community,
                                                                                 1800-1828

    1966              Theodore Friend III                 Between Two
                                                                                  Empires
                          Richard Morris                          The Peacemakers

    1965              Dorothy Borg                             The United States and
                                                                                the Far Eastern Crisis
                          Bradford Perkins                      Castlereagh and Adams
                          William Willcox                          Portrait of a General

   1964              William Leuchtenburg                Franklin D. Roosevelt
                                                                                  and the New Deal
                         Paul Seabury                              Power, Freedom and
                                                                               Diplomacy
                         John Thomas                             The Liberator: William
                                                                              Lloyd Garrison

   1963             Page Smith                                    John Adams
                         John Stoessinger                       The Might of Nations
                         Roberta Wohlstetter                 Pearl Harbor

   1962             Lawrence Cremin                       The Transformation of
                                                                                      the School
                         Martin Duberman                       Charles Francis Adams,
                                                                                    1807-1886
                         Felix Gilbert                               To the Farewell Address

    1961              Arthur Link                                  Wilson: The Struggle for
                                                                                    Neutrality
                         Merrill Peterson                         The Jefferson Image in
                                                                                    the American Mind

    1960             Margaret Leech                          In the Days of McKinley
                         R. R. Palmer                                 The Age of the
                                                                                Democratic
                                                                                    Revolution
    1959             Daniel Boorstin                            The Americans: The
                                                                                Colonial Experience
                         Ernest Samuels                           Henry Adams: The
                                                                                Middle Years

    1958             Frank Luther Mott                      History of American
                                                                                    Magazines
                         Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.              Crisis of the Old Order

    1957             George Kennan                            Russia Leaves the War
                        Arthur Link                                  Wilson: The New
                                                                                   Freedom

    1956             J. G. Randall and
                         Richard Current                           Lincoln the President
                         Elizabeth Stevenson                    Henry Adams

    1955             Paul Horgan                                  Great River
                         Leonard White                             The Jacksonians

    1954            William Langer and
                        S. Everett Gleason                        The Undeclared War
                        Clinton Rossiter                             Seedtime of the
                                                                                    Republic

    1953           George Dangerfield                       The Era of Good
                                                                                    Feelings
                       Eric Goldman                                   Rendezvous with
                                                                                    Destiny

   1952            Merlo Pusey
                       Charles Evans Hughes
                       C. Vann Woodward                          Origins of the New
                                                                                South, 1877-1913
   1951
                       Arthur Holcombe                            Our More Perfect Union
                       Henry Smith                                    Virgin Land

   1950            Herbert Bolton                                Coronado
                       Lawrence Gibson                              The Victorious Years,
                                                                                    1758-1760

   1949           Samuel Eliot Morison                        The Rising Sun in the
                                                                                        Pacific
                      Robert Sherwood                              Roosevelt and Hopkins

    1948          Bernard De Voto                               Across the Wide
                                                                                        Missouri
                      Allan Nevins                                       Ordeal of the Union
 
 
 

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