Merle Curti Award Winners

1979 Gary Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

1980 Paul E. Johnson, A Shopkeepers Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (Hill and Wang)

Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (Columbia University Press)

1981 James T. Schleifer, The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America

1982 George Frederickson, White Supremacy (Oxford University Press)

1983 Norman Fiering, Moral Philosphy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition (The University of North Carolina Press); Jonathan Edward's Moral Thought and Its British Context (The University of North Carolina Press)

1984 Dino Cinel, From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience (Stanford University Press)

1985 Leo Ribuffo, The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (Temple University Press)

1986 Kerby A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles (Oxford University Press)

1987 James T. Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press)

1988 Jacquelyn Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones and Christopher B. Daly, Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The University of North Carolina Press)

Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World: 1700-1750 (Cambridge University Press)

1989 Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Soverignty in England and America (W.W. Norton & Company)

1990 James H. Merrell, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal (The University of North Carolina Press and The Institute of Early American History and Culture)

1991 John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth. Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861 (Cambridge University Press

David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement. Popular Religious Belief in Early New England (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.)

1992 David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (VERSO: The imprint of New Left Books)

1993 Robert B. Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy (Cornell University Press)

1994 W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 (University of Illinois Press)

1995 Wilfred M. McClay, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (The University of North Carolina Press)

1996 George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic Books)

1997 Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, (Cornell University Press)

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's , (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

1998 Robert A. Orsi, Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes, (Yale University Press)

1999 Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press)

2000 Woody Holton, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)

2001  Kimberly K. Smith, Carleton College, The Dominion of Voice:  Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics, (University Press of Kansas)

2002  David W. Blight, Amherst College, Race and Reunion:  The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press)

[This book won both the Curti social and Curti intellectual awards for 2002.]

2003  Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Smith College, Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (Alfred A. Knopf)

2004  George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame, Jonathan Edwards:  A Life (Yale University Press) [intellectual history]

Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College, One Vast Winter Count:  The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press) [social history]

Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, A Nation under Our Feet:  Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [social history]

2005 Steven Mintz, University of Houston, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Harvard University Press). [social history]

Michael O’Brien, University of Cambridge, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 (University of North Carolina Press) [intellectual history]

2006 Elizabeth Borgwardt, University of Utah, A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) [intellectual history]

Thomas Dublin, State University of New York at Binghamton, and Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press) [social history]

2007 Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William & Mary, Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend (Oxford University Press) [social history]

Honorable Mention: Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University, Calling This Place Home:  Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925 (Minnesota Historical Society Press)

Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (The Johns Hopkins University Press)

Honorable Mention: Howard Brick, Washington University in Saint Louis, Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (Cornell University Press)

2008 Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh, The Slave Ship: A Human History (Viking)

2009 Vincent Brown, Harvard University, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press)

Pekka Hämäläinen, University of California, Santa Barbara, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press)