2008

Jean Edward Smith, FDR (Random House)

2007

J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (Yale University Press)

2006

Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters (Houghton Mifflin)

2005

Alan Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha (Hill and Wang)

2004

Suzanne Lebsock, A Murder in Virginia (Norton)

2003

James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins (University of North Carolina Press and Omohundro Institute)

2002

Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2001

Fred Anderson, The Crucible of War (Knopf)

2000

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear (Oxford University Press)

1999

Elliott West, The Contested Plains (University Press of Kansas)

1998

John M. Barry, Rising Tide (Simon and Schuster)

1997

Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention (University of North Carolina Press)

1996

Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson (University of California Press)

1995

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (Knopf)

1994

David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. DuBois (Henry Holt)

1993

David McCullough, Truman (Simon and Schuster)

1992

Richard White, The Middle Ground (Cambridge University Press)

1991

Paul E. Hoffman, A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient (Louisiana State)

1990

Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament (HarperCollins)

1989

Eric Foner, Reconstruction (Harper and Row)

1988

Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief (Harper and Row)

1987

Michael Kammen, A Machine That Would Go Of Itself (Knopf)

1986

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier (Oxford University Press)

1985

Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race (Oxford University Press)

1984

William Cronon, Changes in the Land (Hill and Wang)

1983

John R. Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America (Yale University Press)

1982

William S. McFeely, Grant: A Biography (Norton)

1981

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War (University of North Carolina Press)

1980

Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long (Knopf)

1979

R. David Edmunds, The Pottawotamies (Oklahoma University Press)

1978

David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas (Simon and Schuster)

1977

Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1976

Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (Norton)

1975

Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker (Knopf)

1974

Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas (Oxford University Press)

1973

Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny (Putnam)

1972

Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin (Norton)

1971

James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1970

Theodore A. Wilson, The First Summit (Houghton Mifflin)

1969

Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black (North Carolina University Press)

1968

No award

1967

William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire (Knopf)

1966

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (Random House)

1965

Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction (Bobbs-Merrill)

1964

William E. Leuchtenburg, FDR and the New Deal (Harper and Row)

1963

James Thomas Flexner, That Wilder Image (Little, Brown)

1962

Leon Wolff, Little Brown Brother (Doubleday)

1961

Elting E. Morison, Turmoil and Tradition (Houghton Mifflin)

1960

Matthew Josephson, Edison: A Biography (McGraw-Hill)

1959

Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams: The Middle Years (Harvard University Press)

1958

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Crisis of the Old Order (Houghton Mifflin)