Year
|
Author
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Title
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Result
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Ref.
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1980
|
Ronald Steel
|
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
|
Winner
|
[1]
|
1981
|
Ray Allen Billington
|
Land of Savagery/Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century
|
Winner
|
[2]
|
1982
|
Jonathan D. Spence
|
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1983
|
Fernand Braudel
|
The Wheels of Commerce
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
1984
|
Robert Darnton
|
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
|
Winner
|
[5]
|
1985
|
Evan S. Connell
|
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
|
Winner
|
[6]
|
1986
|
Geoffrey Hosking
|
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
1987
|
Robert Jay Lifton
|
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
1988
|
Eric Foner
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
1989
|
Neal Gabler
|
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
1990
|
Richard Fletcher
|
The Quest for El Cid
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
David Fromkin
|
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
|
Finalist
|
[11]
|
Jon Butler
|
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
|
Denis Mack Smith
|
Italy and its Monarchy
|
Jonathan D. Spence
|
The Search for Modern China
|
1991
|
Nicholas Lemann
|
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
Kevin Brownlow
|
Behind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
Philip A. Kuhn
|
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
|
Robert C. Tucker
|
Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
|
Daniel Yergin
|
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
|
1992
|
Alexander Stille
|
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
Noel Mostert
|
Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa’s Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
Robert P. Newman
|
Owen Lattimore and the “Loss” of China
|
Greg Mitchell
|
The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics
|
Ramón Eduardo Ruiz
|
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People
|
1993
|
Anthony Grafton
|
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
|
Winner
|
[14]
|
Dan Morgan
|
Rising in the West: The True Story of an “Okie” family in Search of the American Dream
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
Alain Peyrefitte and Jon Rothschild
|
The Immobile Empire
|
James C. Cobb
|
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
|
Jane Hamilton-Merritt
|
Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
|
1994
|
George Chauncey
|
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940
|
Winner
|
[15]
|
Leonard Dinnerstein
|
Anti-Semitism in America
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
George Sanchez
|
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
|
John Boswell
|
Marriage of Likeness: Same-sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe
|
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
|
Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
|
1995
|
Jackson Lears
|
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
|
Winner
|
[16]
|
Robert Jensen
|
Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
Ian Hacking
|
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
|
John Egerton
|
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South
|
David Holloway
|
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
|
1996
|
Neal Ascherson
|
Black Sea
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Richard Kluger
|
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
Kevin Starr
|
Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California
|
Norman Davies
|
Europe: A History
|
Lawrence H. Keeley
|
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
|
Alan Taylor
|
William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
|
1997
|
Orlando Figes
|
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
|
Winner
|
[18]
|
Serge Schmemann
|
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
Peter N. Stearns
|
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West
|
Saul Friedländer
|
Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
|
Geoffrey Moorhouse
|
Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
|
1998
|
Roy Porter
|
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Kathy Peiss
|
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Ira Berlin
|
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
|
Philip D. Morgan
|
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
|
Nancy Tomes
|
The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
|
1999
|
John W. Dower
|
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
David Haward Bain
|
Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
David M. Kennedy
|
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
|
John Keegan
|
The First World War
|
Peter Novick
|
The Holocaust in American Life
|
2000
|
Alice Kaplan
|
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Nathaniel Philbrick
|
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Tim Judah
|
Kosovo: War and Revenge
|
Shareen Blair Brysac
|
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
|
Alexander Keyssar
|
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
|
2001
|
Rick Perlstein
|
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Julian Jackson
|
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Louis Menand
|
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
|
G.E. Bentley Jr.
|
The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake
|
Garry Wills
|
Venice: Lion City
|
2002
|
Michael B. Oren
|
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Philip Dray
|
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Gregg Herken
|
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
|
Mary Beth Norton
|
In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
|
Robert W. Harms
|
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
|
2003
|
Henry Wiencek
|
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
|
Winner
|
[25]
|
Anne Applebaum
|
Gulag: A History
|
Finalist
|
[25]
|
Louis Crompton
|
Homosexuality and Civilization
|
David Maraniss
|
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
|
Timothy Tackett
|
When the King Took Flight
|
2004
|
Geoffrey R. Stone
|
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
|
Winner
|
[26]
|
Richard Steven Street
|
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913
|
Finalist
|
[26]
|
Max Frankel
|
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
|
Alfred F. Young
|
Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
|
Richard J. Evans
|
The Coming of the Third Reich: Volume 1 of The Third Reich Series
|
2005
|
Adam Hochschild
|
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
|
Winner
|
[27]
|
Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
|
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
|
Finalist
|
[28]
|
Tony Judt
|
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
|
Sean Wilentz
|
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
|
Richard J. Evans
|
The Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich Series
|
2006
|
Lawrence Wright
|
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
|
Winner
|
[29][30]
|
Taylor Branch
|
At Canaan’s Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|
Nathaniel Philbrick
|
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
|
John Tayman
|
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
|
Niall Ferguson
|
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
|
2007
|
Tim Weiner
|
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
|
Winner
|
[32]
|
Margaret MacMillan
|
Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World
|
Finalist
|
[32]
|
David A. Bell
|
The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
|
Andrew Nagorski
|
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II
|
Lynne Olson
|
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
|
2008
|
Mark Mazower
|
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
|
Winner
|
[33][34]
|
Rick Wartzman
|
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
|
Finalist
|
[35]
|
Michael Dobbs
|
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
|
Thomas J. Sugrue
|
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
|
Drew Gilpin Faust
|
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
|
2009
|
Kevin Starr
|
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950–1963
|
Winner
|
[36]
|
Gordon S. Wood
|
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
|
Finalist
|
[37]
|
Amy Louise Wood
|
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
|
Martha A. Sandweiss
|
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
|
Richard Holmes
|
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
|
2010
|
Thomas Powers
|
The Killing of Crazy Horse
|
Winner
|
[38]
|
John W. Dower
|
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq
|
|
[39]
|
Susan Dunn
|
Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party
|
Ron Chernow
|
Washington: A Life
|
Steven Solomon
|
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
|
2011
|
Richard White
|
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
|
Winner
|
[40]
|
Adam Goodheart
|
1861: The Civil War Awakening
|
Finalist
|
[41]
|
Rachel Polonsky
|
Molotov’s Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
|
Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)
|
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
|
Adam Hochschild
|
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
|
2012
|
Fergus M. Bordewich
|
America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
|
Winner
|
[42][43]
|
Amy S. Greenberg
|
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
|
Finalist
|
[44]
|
George Black
|
Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
|
John M. Barry
|
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
|
Geoffrey Kabaservice
|
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
|
2013
|
Christopher Clark
|
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
|
Winner
|
[45]
|
Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman
|
FDR and the Jews
|
Finalist
|
[46]
|
Doris Kearns Goodwin
|
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
|
Alan Taylor
|
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
|
Glenn Frankel
|
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend
|
2014
|
Adam Tooze
|
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
|
Winner
|
[47][48]
|
Mark Harris
|
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
|
Finalist
|
[49]
|
Walter Isaacson
|
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
|
Judith Flanders
|
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
|
Lawrence Wright
|
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
|
2015
|
Dan Ephron
|
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
|
Winner
|
[50]
|
Jonathan M. Bryant
|
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
|
Finalist
|
[50]
|
David Maraniss
|
Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
|
Mary Beard
|
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
|
Mark Molesky
|
This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
|
2016
|
Benjamin Madley
|
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873
|
Winner
|
[51]
|
Heather Ann Thompson
|
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
|
Finalist
|
[52]
|
Adam Hochschild
|
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
|
Masha Gessen
|
Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
|
Nancy Isenberg
|
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
|
2017
|
Dan Egan
|
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
|
Winner
|
[53]
|
Richard Rothstein
|
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
|
Finalist
|
[53]
|
Frances FitzGerald
|
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
|
Mark Bowden
|
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
|
Stephen Alford
|
London’s Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare’s City
|
2018
|
Julia Boyd
|
Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945
|
Winner
|
[54]
|
2019
|
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
|
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
|
Winner
|
[55][56]
|
2020
|
Martha S. Jones
|
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
|
Winner
|
[57][58]
|
Alice L. Baumgartner
|
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
|
Finalist
|
[59]
|
Adam Goodman
|
The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants
|
Walter Johnson
|
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
|
David Vine
|
The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
|
2020
|
Ada Ferrer
|
Cuba: An American History
|
Winner
|
[60]
|
Mia Bay
|
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
|
Finalist
|
[60]
|
Mae Ngai
|
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
|
Olivette Otele
|
African Europeans: An Untold History
|
Alaina E. Roberts
|
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
|
2022
|
Margaret Burnham
|
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
|
Winner
|
[61]
|
Hugh Eakin
|
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
|
Finalist
|
[61]
|
Kerri K. Greenidge
|
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
|
Andrew M. Wehrman
|
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
|
Donald Yacovone
|
Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity
|
2023
|
Joya Chatterji
|
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
|
Winner
|
[62]
|
Ned Blackhawk
|
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
|
Finalist
|
[62]
|
Malcolm Harris
|
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
|
Blair L.M. Kelley
|
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
|
Nikki M. Taylor
|
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
|