2007

Jennifer Anderson (New York University), "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1720–1830"

2006

Darren Dochuk (Notre Dame), "From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Southernization of Southern California, 1939–69" (W. W. Norton, forthcoming)

2005

Joseph Kip Kosek (Yale), "Spectacles of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and the Transformation of American Democracy, 1914–1956" (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

2004

Elizabeth Lauterbach Laskin (Harvard), "Good Old Rebels: Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862–1865" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

2003

Jeffrey Wiltse (Brandeis), "Contested Waters: A History of Swimming Pools in America" (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)

2002

Kevin P. Murphy (New York University), "The Manly World of Urban Reform: Political Manhood and the New Politics of Progressivism" (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

2001

Thomas A. Guglielmo (University of Michigan), White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945 (Oxford University Press)

2000

Dylan C. Penningroth (Johns Hopkins), The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press)

1999

Conevery Bolton Valencius (Harvard), The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (Basic Books)

1998

Jerald E. Podair (Princeton), The Strike the Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (Yale University Press)

1997

John T. Trumpbour (Harvard), Selling Hollywood to the World: The United States and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950 (Cambridge University Press)

1996

William A. Blair (Pennsylvania State), Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 (Oxford University Press)

1995

Elizabeth Rose (Rutgers), A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890–1960 (Oxford University Press)

1994

Dean David Grodzins (Harvard), American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism (University of North Carolina Press)

1993

Amy J. Kinsel (Cornell), "From These Honored Dead": Gettysburg in American Culture, 1863–1938 (University of North Carolina Press)

1992

Martha Hodes (Princeton), White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th-Century South (Yale University Press)

1991

Andrea J. Tucher (NYU), Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax-Murder in America's First Mass Medium (University of North Carolina Press)

1990

Richard John (Harvard), Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (Harvard University Press)

1989

Elizabeth A. Cobbs (Stanford), The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil (Yale)

1988

Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Columbia), of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920 (Norton)

1987

Kenneth Cmiel (Chicago), Democratic Eloquence: The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America (William Morrow)

1986

Elaine Abelson (New York University), When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (Oxford Univ. Press)

1985

Foreman Griffith (Johns Hopkins), Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette (Oxford University Press)

1984

Peter Coclanis (Columbia), The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920 (Oxford University Press)

1983

Charles Lloyd Cohen (Berkeley), God's Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience (Oxford University Press)

1982

John d'Entremont (Johns Hopkins), Southern Emancipator: Moncure Conway, the American Years, 1832–1865 (Oxford Univ. Press)

1981

Robert Rydell (UCLA), All the World's a Fair: America's International Expositions, 1876–1916 (University of Chicago Press)

1980

Steven Hahn (Yale), The Roots of Southern Populism (Oxford University Press)

1979

John Ettling (Harvard), The Germ of Laziness: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in the Southern States (Harvard University Press)

1978

Mark Schwehn (Stanford), "The Making of Modern Consciousness in America: The Works and Careers of Henry Adams and William James"

1977

John McCardell, Jr. (Harvard), The Idea of a Southern Nation (Norton)

1976

Robert Dawidoff (Cornell), The Education of John Randolph (Norton)

1975

Gary May (UCLA), The China Service of John Carter Vincent, 1924–1953 (New Republic Books)

1974

James L. Roark (Stanford), Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Norton)

1973

George B. Forgie (Stanford), Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age (Norton)

1972

Heath Twichell, Jr. (American University), The Biography of Henry T. Allen (Rutgers University Press)

1971

Edward H. McKinley (Wisconsin), The Lure of Africa: The American Interest in Tropical Africa, 1919–1939 (Bobbs-Merrill)

1970

Mary Beth Norton (Harvard), The British-Americans (Little, Brown)

1969

Steven A. Channing (North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Crisis of Fear (Simon and Schuster)

1968

Jerome Sternstein (Brown), "Nelson Aldrich: The Early Years"

1967

Alan Lawson (Michigan), The Failure of Independent Liberalism (Putnam)

1966

Robert L. Beisner (Chicago), Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898–1900 (McGraw Hill)

1965

William W. Freehling (Berkeley), Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836 (Harper and Row)

1964

Joanne L. Neel (Bryn Mawr), Phineas Bond: A Study in Anglo-American Relations (University of Pennsylvania Press)

1963

Willie Lee Rose (Johns Hopkins), Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Bobbs-Merrill)

1962

John L. Thomas (Brown), The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison (Little, Brown)

1961

Waldo H. Heinrichs, Jr. (Harvard), American Ambassador: Joseph Grew and the Development of the United States Diplomatic Tradition (Little, Brown)