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2006: by David M. Oshinsky

2005: Washington's Crossing (ISBN 0-19-517034-2) by David Hackett Fischer

2004: A Nation Under Our Feet (ISBN 0-674-01169-4) by Steven Hahn

2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson

2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand

2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy

1999: by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson

1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove

1996: William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor

1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1994: no award given

1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.

1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow

1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch

1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce

1987: Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

1986: ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall

1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McGraw

1984: no award given

1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac

1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward

1981: American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin

1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack

1979: The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher

1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

1977: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher)

1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan

1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone

1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin

1973: People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen

1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler

1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns

1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson

1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy

1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

1967: Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann

1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller

1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger

1964: Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell

1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green

1962: The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson

1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis

1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech

1959: The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider

1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond

1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan

1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter

1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan

1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield

1952: The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin

1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley

1950: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin

1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols

1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto

1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III

1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal

1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti

1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes

1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech

1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen

1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg

1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott

1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck

1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks

1936: A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin

1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews

1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar

1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner

1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing

1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt

1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne

1929: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon

1928: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington

1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis

1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing

1925: History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson

1924: The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain

1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren

1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams

1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick

1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith

1919: no award given

1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes

1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand