| 1917 |
J. J. Jusserand |
With Americans of Past and Present Days
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| 1918 |
James Ford Rhodes |
A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
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| 1919 |
(no award)
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| 1920 |
Justin H. Smith |
The War with Mexico
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| 1921 |
William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick |
The Victory at Sea
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| 1922 |
James Truslow Adams |
The Founding of New England
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| 1923 |
Charles Warren |
The Supreme Court in United States History
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| 1924 |
Charles Howard McIlwain |
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
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| 1925 |
Frederic L. Paxson |
History of the American Frontier
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| 1926 |
Edward Channing |
A History of the United States
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| 1927 |
Samuel Flagg Bemis |
Pinckney's Treaty
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| 1928 |
Vernon Louis Parrington |
Main Currents in American Thought
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| 1929 |
Fred Albert Shanoon |
The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865
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| 1930 |
Claude H. Van Tyne |
The War of Independence
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| 1931 |
Bernadotte E. Schmitt |
The Coming of the War, 1914
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| 1932 |
John J. Pershing |
My Experiences in the World War
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| 1933 |
Frederick Jackson Turner |
The Significance of Sections in American History
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| 1934 |
Herbert Agar |
The People's Choice
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| 1935 |
Charles McLean Andrews |
The Colonial Period of American History
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| 1936 |
Andrew C. McLaughlin |
A Constitutional History of the United States
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| 1937 |
Van Wyck Brooks |
The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
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| 1938 |
Paul Herman Buck |
The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900
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| 1939 |
Frank Luther Mott |
A History of American Magazines
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| 1940 |
Carl Sandburg |
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
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| 1941 |
Marcus Lee Hansen |
The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
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| 1942 |
Margaret Leech |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
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| 1943 |
Esther Forbes |
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
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| 1944 |
Merle Curti |
The Growth of American Thought
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| 1945 |
Stephen Bonsal |
Unfinished Business
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| 1946 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
The Age of Jackson
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| 1947 |
James Phinney Baxter III |
Scientists Against Time
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| 1948 |
Bernard DeVoto |
Across the Wide Missouri
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| 1949 |
Roy Franklin Nichols |
The Disruption of American Democracy
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| 1950 |
Oliver W. Larkin |
Art and Life in America
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| 1951 |
R. Carlyle Buley |
The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period, 1815-1840
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| 1952 |
Oscar Handlin |
The Uprooted
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| 1953 |
George Dangerfield |
The Era of Good Feelings
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| 1954 |
Bruce Catton |
A Stillness at Appomattox
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| 1955 |
Paul Horgan |
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
|
| 1956 |
Richard Hofstadter |
The Age of Reform
|
| 1957 |
George F. Kennan |
Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920
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| 1958 |
Bray Hammond |
Banks and Politics in America
|
| 1959 |
Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider |
The Republican Era: 1869-1901
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| 1960 |
Margaret Leech |
In the Days of McKinley
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| 1961 |
Herbert Feis |
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
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| 1962 |
Lawrence H. Gipson |
The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766
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| 1963 |
Constance McLaughlin Green |
Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878
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| 1964 |
Sumner Chilton Powell |
Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town
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| 1965 |
Irwin Unger |
The Greenback Era
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| 1966 |
Perry Miller |
The Life of the Mind in America
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| 1967 |
William H. Goetzmann |
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
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| 1968 |
Bernard Bailyn |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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| 1969 |
Leonard W. Levy |
Origins of the Fifth Amendment
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| 1970 |
Dean Acheson |
Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department
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| 1971 |
James MacGregor Burns |
Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom
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| 1972 |
Carl N. Degler |
Neither Black Nor White
|
| 1973 |
Michael Kammen |
People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
|
| 1974 |
Daniel Boorstin |
The Americans: The Democratic Experience
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| 1975 |
Dumas Malone |
Jefferson and His Time
|
| 1976 |
Paul Horgan |
Lamy of Santa Fe
|
| 1977 |
David M. Potter and Don E. Fehrenbacher |
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867
|
| 1978 |
Alfred Chandler |
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
|
| 1979 |
Don E. Fehrenbacher |
The Dred Scott Case
|
| 1980 |
Leon F. Litwack |
Been in the Storm So Long
|
| 1981 |
Lawrence A. Cremin |
American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
|
| 1982 |
C. Vann Woodward |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
|
| 1983 |
Rhys L. Isaac |
The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
|
| 1984 |
(no award)
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|
| 1985 |
Thomas K. McGraw |
Prophets of Regulation
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| 1986 |
Walter A. McDougall |
...the Heavens and the Earth |
| 1987 |
Bernard Bailyn |
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
|
| 1988 |
Robert V. Bruce |
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876
|
| 1989 |
James M. McPherson |
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
|
| 1989 |
Taylor Branch |
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
|
| 1990 |
Stanley Karnow |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
|
| 1991 |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
A Midwife's Tale
|
| 1992 |
Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
|
| 1993 |
Gordon S. Wood |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
|
| 1994 |
(no award)
|
|
| 1995 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
|
| 1996 |
Alan Taylor |
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
|
| 1997 |
Jack N. Rakove |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
|
| 1998 |
Edward J. Larson |
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
|
| 1999 |
Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace |
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
|
| 2000 |
David M. Kennedy |
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
|
| 2001 |
Joseph J. Ellis |
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
|
| 2002 |
Louis Menand |
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
|
| 2003 |
Rick Atkinson |
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
|
| 2004 |
Steven Hahn |
A Nation Under Our Feet
|
| 2005 |
David Hackett Fischer |
Washington's Crossing
|
| 2006 |
David M. Oshinsky |
Polio: An American Story
|
| 2007 |
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff |
The Race Beat
|
| 2008 |
Daniel Walker Howe |
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
|
| 2009 |
Annette Gordon-Reed |
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
|
| 2010 |
Liaquat Ahamed |
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
|
| 2011 |
Eric Foner |
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
|
| 2012 |
Manning Marable |
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
|
| 2013 |
Fredrik Logevall |
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
|
| 2014 |
Alan Taylor |
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
|
| 2015 |
Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
|
| 2016 |
T. J. Stiles |
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America |
