OAH ELLIS W. HAWLEY PRIZE WINNERS

1997 Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism (University Press of Kansas)

1998 Walter LaFeber, The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations (W.W. Norton)

1999 Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard University Press)

2000 Julian E. Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (Cambridge University Press)

2001  Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White America, (The University of North Carolina Press)

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

2003 Steven W. Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Regulating Railroad Innovation:  Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press)

2004  Jennifer Klein, Yale University, For All These Rights:  Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State (Princeton University Press)

2005 Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (The University of Chicago Press)

2006 Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press)

2007 Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania, The Prison and the Gallows:  The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge University Press)

2008 David M. P. Freund, University of Maryland, College Park, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America (The University of Chicago Press)

Wendy L. Wall, Colgate University, Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press)