2024: No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
2023: Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie
2022: Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
2022: Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
2021: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
2020: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
2019: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
2018: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
2017: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
2016: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles
2015: Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
2014: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
2013: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
2012: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
2010: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2007: The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration 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: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 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
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
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
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. McCraw
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 by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1978: The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1975: Jefferson and His Time, Vols. I-V 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: From the Revolution to the Civil War by Perry Miller
1965: The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879 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
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O 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 3rd
1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
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 Founding of the American Republic, Volume II: The War of Independence: American Phase 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, 2 vols. by Vernon Louis Parrington
1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1926: A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865 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 in collaboration with Burton J. Hendrick
1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
1918: History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by His Excellency J.J. Jusserand