Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref. |
1980 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century | Atlantic/Little, Brown and Co. | |
1981 | Ray Allen Billington | Land of Savagery/Land of Promise | W.W. Norton & Company | |
1982 | Jonathan D. Spence | The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980 | Viking | |
1983 | Fernand Braudel | The Wheels of Commerce | Harper & Row | |
1984 | Robert Darnton | The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History | Basic Books | |
1985 | Evan S. Connell | Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn | North Point Press | |
1986 | Geoffrey Hosking | The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within | Harvard University Press | |
1987 | Robert Jay Lifton | The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide | | [13] |
1988 | Eric Foner | Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 | Harper & Row | |
1989 | Neal Gabler | An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood | Crown | |
1990 | Richard Fletcher | The Quest for El Cid | Alfred A. Knopf | |
1991 | Nicholas Lemann | The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America | Alfred A. Knopf | |
1992 | Alexander Stille | Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism | Summit | |
1993 | Anthony Grafton | New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery | Harvard University Press | |
1994 | George Chauncey | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 | Basic Books | |
1995 | Jackson Lears | Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America | Basic Books | |
1996 | Neal Ascherson | Black Sea | Hill & Wang | |
1997 | Orlando Figes | A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution | Viking | |
1998 | Roy Porter | The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity | W.W. Norton & Company | |
1999 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | W.W. Norton & Company | |
2000 | Alice Kaplan | The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach | University of Chicago Press | |
2001 | Rick Perlstein | Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus | Hill and Wang Division/Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
2002 | Michael B. Oren | Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East | Oxford University Press | |
2003 | Henry Wiencek | An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
2004 | Geoffrey R. Stone | Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism | W.W. Norton & Company | |
2005 | Adam Hochschild | Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves | Houghton Mifflin | |
2006 | Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Alfred A. Knopf | |
2007 | Tim Weiner | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA | Doubleday | |
2008 | Mark Mazower | Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe | Penguin Press | |
2009 | Kevin Starr | Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963 | Oxford University Press | |
2010 | Thomas Powers | The Killing of Crazy Horse | Alfred A. Knopf | |
2011 | Richard White | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America | W.W. Norton & Company | |
2012 | Fergus M. Bordewich | America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union | Simon & Schuster | |
2013 | Christopher Clark | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 | HarperCollins | |
2014 | Adam Tooze | The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 | Viking | |
2015 | Dan Ephron | Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel | W.W. Norton & Company | |
2016 | Benjamin Madley | An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 | Yale University Press | |
2017 | Dan Egan | The Death and Life of the Great Lakes | W.W. Norton & Company | |
2018 | Julia Boyd | Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 | Pegasus Books | |
2019 | Stephanie Jones-Rogers | They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South | Yale University Press | |
2020 | Martha S. Jones | Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All | Basic Books | [6] |
2021 | Ada Ferrer | Cuba: An American History | Scribner | |
2022 | Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners | W.W. Norton & Company | |