2020s
2024 – No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
- American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Michael Willrich (Basic Books)
- Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West (University of Nebraska Press)
2023 – Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power, by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
- Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, by Michael John Witgen (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press)
- Watergate: A New History, by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)
2022 –Covered with Night, by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton) and Cuba: An American History, by Ada Ferrer (Scribner)
- Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, by Kate Masur (W. W. Norton & Company)
2021 – Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)
- The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, by Eric Cervini (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)
2020 – Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel (Oxford University Press)
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (University of North Carolina Press)
- The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books)
2010s
2019 – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)
- American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, by Victoria Johnson (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
- Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition, by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
2018 – The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, by Jack E. Davis (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
- Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, by Kim Phillips-Fein (Metropolitan Books)
- Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, by Steven J. Ross (Bloomsbury)
2017 – Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)
- Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Alfred A. Knopf)
- New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, by Wendy Warren (Liveright/W.W. Norton)
2016 – Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War, by Brian Matthew Jordan (Liveright/Norton)
- Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott (W.W. Norton & Company)
- The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency, by Annie Jacobsen (Little, Brown & Company)
2015 – Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, by Elizabeth A. Fenn (Hill and Wang)
- An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, by Nick Bunker (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert (Alfred A. Knopf)
2014 – The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)
- A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety, by Eric Schlosser (The Penguin Press)
2013 – Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall (Random House)
- Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, by John Fabian Witt (Free Press)
- The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675, by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
2012 – Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable (Viking)
- Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, by Anne F. Hyde (University of Nebraska Press)
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, by Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company)
- The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Ballantine Books)
2011 – The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, by Stephanie McCurry (Harvard University Press)
- Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, by Michael Rawson (Harvard University Press)
2010 – Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed (The Penguin Press)
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood ((Oxford University Press)
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company)
2009 – The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed (W.W. Norton & Company)
- The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s, by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot (The Penguin Press)
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust (Alfred A. Knopf)
2008 – What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek (HarperCollins)
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam (Hyperion)
2007 – The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)
- Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, by James T. Campbell (The Penguin Press)
2006 – Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky (Oxford University Press)
- New York Burning, by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, by Sean Wilentz (W.W. Norton)
2005 – Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer (Oxford University Press)
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt)
- Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2, by Michael O’Brien (The University of North Carolina Press)
2004 – A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, by Steven Hahn (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
- Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, by Daniel Okrent (Viking)
- They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October1967, by David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster)
2003 – An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company)
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, by Philip Dray (Random House)
- Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (Alfred A. Knopf)
2002 –The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar)
- Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation, by J. William Harris (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, by Daniel K. Richter (Harvard University Press)
2001 – Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, by Joseph J. Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, by Alexander Keyssar (Basic Books)
- Way Out There in the Blue, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
2000 – Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press)
- Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier, by James H. Merrell (W.W. Norton)
- The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America, by Kevin Phillips (Basic Books)
1999 – Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press)
- In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival, by Paula Mitchell Marks (William Morrow and Company)
- This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William E. Burrows (Random House)
1998 – Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, by Edward J. Larson (BasicBooks)
- Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America, by J. Anthony Lukas (Simon & Schuster)
- Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, by Rogers M. Smith (Yale University Press)
1997 – Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack N. Rakove (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Founding Mothers and Fathers, by Mary Beth Norton (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Battle for Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 – William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, by Alan Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes (Simon & Schuster)
- The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, by Lance Banning (Cornell University Press)
1995 – No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)
- Lincoln in American Memory, by Merrill D. Peterson (Oxford University Press)
- Stories of Scottsboro, by James Goodman (Pantheon)
1994 –
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, by Gerald Posner (Random House)
- Crime and Punishment in American History, by Lawrence M. Friedman (Basic Books)
- William Faulkner and Southern History, by Joel Williamson (Oxford University Press)
1994 – The Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster)
- The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction, by Edward L. Ayers (Oxford University Press)
1992 – The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, by Mark E. Neely
- A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs, by Theodore Draper (Hill & Wang)
- Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, by William Cronon (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century, by John Frederick Martin (The University of North Carolina Press)
- The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, by Richard White (Cambridge University Press)
1991 – A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Alfred A. Knopf)
- America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, by Kenneth M. Stampp (Oxford University Press)
- Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, by Lizabeth Cohen (Cambridge University Press)
- The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, by Hugh David Graham (Oxford University Press)
1990 – In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines, by Stanley Karnow (Random House)
- American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970, by Thomas P. Hughes (Viking)
- The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, by Hugh Honour (Harvard University Press)
1989 – Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson (Oxford University Press)
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, by Taylor Branch (Simon and Schuster)
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan (Random House)
- Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner (Harper & Row)
1988 – The Launching of Modern American Science 1846-1876, by Robert V. Bruce (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System, by Charles E. Rosenberg (Basic Books)
- The Fall of the House of Labor, by David Montgomery (Cambridge University Press)
1987 – Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, by David J. Garrow (William Morrow)
- Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945, by David Eisenhower (Random House)
1986 – …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, by Walter A. McDougall (Basic Books)
- Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America, by Kerby A. Miller (Oxford University Press)
- Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present, by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
- Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, by Forrest McDonald (University Press of Kentucky)
1985 – Prophets of Regulation, by Thomas K. McCraw (Belknap/Harvard)
- The Crucible of Race, by Joel Williamson (Oxford University Press)
- The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, by Francis Paul Prucha (University of Nebraska)
1983 – The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, by Rhys L. Isaac (U. North Carolina Press)
- Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, by Robert L. Middlekauff (Oxford University Press)
1982 – Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, by C. Vann Woodward (Yale U. Press)
- Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945, by Akira Iriye (Harvard University Press)
- White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History, by George M. Fredrickson (Oxford University Press)
1981 – American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876, by Lawrence A. Cremin (Harper & Row)
- A Search for Power: The ‘Weaker Sex’ in Seventeenth Century New England, by Lyle Koehler (Illinois)
- Over Here: The First World War and American Society, by David M. Kennedy (Oxford)
1980 – Been in the Storm So Long, by Leon F. Litwack (Knopf)
- The Plains Across, by John B. Unruh (Illinois)
- The Urban Crucible, by Gary B. Nash (Harvard)
1979 – The Dred Scott Case, by Don E. Fehrenbacher (Oxford Univ. Press)
1978 – The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, by Alfred D. Chandler
1977 – The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, by David M. Potter (Harper) (A posthumous publication; manuscript finished by Don E. Fehrenbacker.)
1976 – Lamy of Santa Fe, by Paul Horgan (Farrar)
1975 – Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V, by Dumas Malone (Little)
1974 – The Americans: The Democratic Experience, by Daniel J. Boorstin (Random)
1973 – People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, by Michael Kammen (Knopf)
1972 – Neither Black Nor White, by Carl N. Degler (Macmillan)
1971 – Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt)
1970 – Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department, by Dean Acheson (Norton)
1969 – Origins of the Fifth Amendment, by Leonard W. Levy (Oxford Univ. Press)
1968 – The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn (Harvard Univ. Press)
1967 – Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West, by William H. Goetzmann (Knopf)
1966 – The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, by Perry Miller (Harcourt)
1965 – The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879, by Irwin Unger (Princeton Univ. Press)
1964 – Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, by Sumner Chilton Powell (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1963 – Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878, by Constance McLaughlin Green (Princeton Univ. Press)
1962 – The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West 1763-1766, by Lawrence H. Gipson (Knopf)
1961 – Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
1960 – In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech (Harper)
1959 – The Republican Era: 1869-1901, by Leonard D. White
1958 – Banks and Politics in America, by Bray Hammond (Princeton Univ. Press)
1957 – Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O, by George F. Kennan (Princeton Univ. Press)
1956 – The Age of Reform, by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf)
1955 – Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, by Paul Horgan (Rinehart)
1954 – A Stillness at Appomattox, by Bruce Catton (Doubleday)
1953 – The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield (Harcourt)
1952 – The Uprooted, by Oscar Handlin (Little)
1951 – The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840, by R. Carlyle Buley (Towers)
1950 – Art and Life in America, by Oliver W. Larkin (Rinehart)
1949 – The Disruption of American Democracy, by Roy Franklin Nichols (Macmillan)
1948 – Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard Devoto (Houghton)
1947 – Scientists Against Time, by James Phinney Baxter 3rd (Little)
1946 – The Age of Jackson, by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
1945 – Unfinished Business, by Stephen Bonsal (Doubleday)
1944 – The Growth of American Thought, by Merle Curti (Harper)
1943 – Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1942 – Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, by Margaret Leech (Harper)
1941 – The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860, by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard Univ. Press)
1940 – Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
1939 – A History of American Magazines, by Frank Luther Mott (Harvard Univ. Press)
1938 – The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900, by Paul Herman Buck (Little)
1937 – The Flowering of New England 1815-1865, by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton)
1936 – A Constitutional History of the United States, by Andrew C. McLaughlin (Appleton)
1935 – The Colonial Period of American History, by Charles McLean Andrews (Yale Univ. Press)
1934 – The People’s Choice, by Herbert Agar (Houghton)
1933 – The Significance of Sections in American History, by Frederick J. Turner (Holt)
1932 – My Experiences in the World War, by John J. Pershing (Stokes)
1931 – The Coming of the War 1914, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (Scribner)
1930 – The Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase, by Claude H. Van Tyne (Houghton)
1929 – The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Fred Albert Shannon (A.H. Clark)
1928 – Main Currents in American Thought, 2 vols., by Vernon Louis Parrington (Harcourt)
1927 – Pinckney’s Treaty, by Samuel Flagg Bemis (Johns Hopkins)
1926 – A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865, by Edward Channing (Macmillan)
1925 – History of the American Frontier, by Frederic L. Paxson (Houghton)
1924 – The American Revolution — A Constitutional Interpretation, by Charles Howard McIlwain (Macmillan)
1923 – The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren (Little)
1922 – The Founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams (Little)
1921 –The Victory at Sea, by William Sowden Sims in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick (Doubleday)
1920 –The War with Mexico, by Justin H. Smith (Macmillan) Two volumes.
1918 – History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes (Macmillan)
1917 – With Americans of Past and Present Days, by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand
