Darren Dochuk (Purdue Univ.), From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (W. W. Norton)

Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University Press)

Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, Univ. of California Press, 2007

Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (Yale University Press, 2004)

2003

Michael Willrich, Brandeis University, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago. (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

2001

Ernest Freeberg, Colby-Sawyer College, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001)

1999

Marilyn Baseler, University of Texas, Austin Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800, Cornell University Press (1998).

1997

Kathleen M. Brown, U. of Pennsylvania, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (U. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1996)

1995

Daniel Vickers, Memorial U. of Newfoundland, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850 (U. of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994)

1993

A.G. Roeber, U. of Illinois at Chicago, Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1993)

Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Cornell U., Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Before 1783 (U. of North Carolina Press, 1992)

1991

Eric Arnesen, Harvard U., Waterfront Worker of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923 (Oxford U. Press)

1990

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, U. of New Hampshire, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989

Drew McCoy, Harvard U., The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy (Cambridge U. Press)

1988

Joseph E. Stevens, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure (U. of Oklahoma Press)

1987

Allan Kulikoff, Northern Illinois U., Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1986

Barbara J. Fields, Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (Yale U.P.)

1984

Nick Salvatore, Cornell U., Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (U. of Illinois Press)

1982

David J. Jeremy, London School of Economics, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies,Between Britain and America, 1770–1830s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press)

1980

John P. Unruh, Jr. (posthumous), The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the TransMississippi West, 1840–1860 (U. of Illinois Press)

1978

J. Mills Thornton, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800–1861 (Louisiana State U.P.)

1976

Thomas S. Hines, Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner (Oxford U.P.)

1974

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Harvard U.P.)

1972

John P. Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Princeton U.P.)

1970

Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (U. of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture)

1968

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

1966

John Willard Shy, Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the American Revolution (Princeton U.P.)

1964

John H. and LaWanda Cox, Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865–1866 (Free Press of Glencoe)

1962

E. James Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776–1790 (U. of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture)

1960

Eric L. McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction (U. of Chicago Press)

1958

Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion (Stanford U.P.)

1956

John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism (Rutgers U.P.)

1954

Gerald Carson, The Old Country Store (Oxford U.P.)

1952

Louis C. and Beatrice Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History (Harvard U.P.)

1950

Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard U.P.)

1948

William E. Livezey, Mahan and Seapower (U. of Oklahoma Press)

1946

David Ellis, Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson Mohawk Region (Cornell U.P.)

1944

Elting E. Morison, Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy (Houghton)

1942

Oscar Handlin, Boston’s Immigrants (Harvard U.P.)

1940

Richard W. Leopold, Robert Dale Owen (Harvard U.P.)

1938

Robert A. East, Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era (Columbia U.P.)

1937

No award

1935

Angie Debo, The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (U. of Oklahoma Press)

1933

Amos A. Ettinger, The Mission to Spain of Pierre Soule (Yale U.P.)

1931

Francis B. Simkins and R.H. Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction (U. of North Carolina Press)

1929

Haywood J. Pearce, Jr., Benjamin H. Hill: Secession and Reconstruction (U. of Chicago Press)