- 2006 Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British and Atlantic World
(University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
- 2005 Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in
Imperial Germany (Cornell Universtiy Press)
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2004 Jennifer Michael Hecht, The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press)
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2003 David Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the
Beginnings of Modern Natrual History (University of Chicago Press)
- 2002 Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the
Troubadours (Cornell University Press)
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2001 Debora Silverman, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art
(Straus and Giroux)
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2000 Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Houghton Mifflin)
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1999 H.C. Erik Midelfort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
(Stanford University Press)
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1998 Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American
Identity (Alfred A. Knopf)
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1997 Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
(Yale University Press)
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1996 Eloise Quinones Keber, Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and
History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript (University of Texas Press)
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1995 Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western
Christianity, 220-1336 (Columbia University Press)
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1994 David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
(Henry Holt and Company)
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1993 Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of
Social Policy in the United States (The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press)
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1992 Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)
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1991 Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of
Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford University Press)
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1990 William L. Vance, America’s Rome, Volumes I and II (Yale University Press)
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1989 Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual
Renunication in Early Christianity (Columbia University Press)
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1988 David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (Cambridge University
Press)
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1987 Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of
Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge University Press)
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1986 Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China (The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
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1985 Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the
American South since Emancipation (Oxford University Press)
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1984 David G. Roskies, Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in
Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard University Press)
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1983 Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought
in the South, 1919-1945 (University of North Carolina Press)
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1982 Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press)
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1981 George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American
and South African History (Oxford University Press)
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1980 Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western
World (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
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1979 Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press As An Agent of Change,
Volumes I and II (Cambridge University Press)
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1978 Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1860-1930 (Yale University Press)
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1977 Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France,
1870-1914 (Stanford University Press)
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1976 Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford University Press)
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1975 Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam (University of Chicago Press)
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1974 Frederic C. Lane, Venice: A Maritime Republic
(Johns Hopkins University Press)
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1973 Barrington Moore, Jr., Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and
upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them (Beacon Press)
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1972 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (The Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press)
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1971 Charles A. Barker, American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought,
1600-1850 (J.B. Lippincott)
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1970 Rollo May, Love and Will (Norton)
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1969 Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insider (Harper & Row)
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1968 Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the
Negro, 1550-1812 (University of North Carolina Press)
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1967 Robert Coles, Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
(Atlantic-Little, Brown)
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1966 John Herman Randall, Jr., The Career of Philosophy: From the German
Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (Columbia University Press)
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1965 Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World: American Culture-
The Formative Years (Viking Press)
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1964 Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of An Idea in America (Southern
Methodist University Press)
- 1963 Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Knopf)
- 1962 Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Ancient World (Harper & Brothers)
- 1961 W. T. Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy (J.B. Lippincott)
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1960 Albert William Levi, Philosophy and the Modern World
(Indiana University Press)