2008

Friederike Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle:  Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790 to 1830 (New York University Press).

Seth Bruggeman, Here, George Washington Was Born:  Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument (University of Georgia Press).

William Hitchcock, The Bitter Road to Freedom:  A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press).

Elizabeth Varon, Disunion!  The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (University of North Carolina Press).

2007

David Farber, ed., What They Think of US:  International Perspectives of the United States since 9/11 (Princeton University Press).

Harvey Neptune, Caliban and the Yankees:  Colonial Trinidad and the United States Occupation (University of North Carolina Press).

Vladislav Zubok, A Failed Empire:  The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (University of North Carolina Press).

2006

Beth Bailey and David Farber, The Fifties Chronicle (Publications International).

Andrew C. Isenberg, ed., The Nature of Cities:  Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space (University of Rochester Press).

2005

Andrew C. Isenberg, Mining California:  An Ecological History (Hill and Wang).

Ralph Young, Dissent in America, 2 vols. (Pearson Longman).

2004

Beth Bailey and David Farber, eds., America in the 70s (University Press of Kansas).

David Farber, Taken Hostage:  The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam (Princeton University Press).

Bryant Simon, Boardwalk of Dreams:  Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (Oxford University Press).

Gregory Urwin, ed., Black Flag Over Dixie:  Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press).

David Waldstreicher, Runaway America:  Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang).

2003

Beth Bailey and David Farber, eds., The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia University Press).

Kathleen Biddick, The Typological Imaginary:  Circumcision, Technology, and History (University of Pennsylvania Press).

Petra Goedde, GIs and Germans:  Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (Yale University Press).

William Hitchcock, The Struggle for Europe:  The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-2000 (Doubleday).

Elizabeth Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy:  The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (Oxford University Press).

2002

David Farber, Sloan Rules:  Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors (University of Chicago Press).

Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Female, Jewish, and Educated:  The Lives of Central European University Women (Indiana University Press).

Wilbert Jenkins, Climbing Up to Glory:  A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction (Scholarly Resources).

David Watt, Bible-carrying Christians:  Conservative Protestants and Social Power (Oxford University Press).

2001

Kenneth Kusmer, Down and Out, On the Road:  The Homeless in American History (Oxford University Press).

Jay Lockenour, Soldiers as Citizens:  Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955 (University of Nebraska Press).

2000

William Cutler, Parents and Schools:  The 150-Year Struggle for the Control of American Education (University of Chicago Press).

Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison:  An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (Cambridge University Press).

1999

Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland:  Politics, Culture, and the Sexual Revolution (Harvard University Press).

Barbara Day-Hickman, Napoleonic Art:  Nationalism and the Spirit of Rebellion in France, 1815-1848 (Associated University Presses).

Richard Immerman, John Foster Dulles:  Piety. Pragmatism, and Power in US Foreign Policy (Scholarly Resources).

Nguyen Dieu, The Mekong River and the Strugle for Indochina:  Water, War, and Peace (Praeger).

Kathleen Uno, Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (University of Hawai'i Press).

Kathy Walker, Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path:  Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta (Stanford University Press).