OAH RICHARD W. LEOPOLD PRIZE WINNERS

1984 J. Merton England, A Patron for Pure Science, The National Science Foundation's Formative Years, 1945-1957

1986 Steven L. Rearden, History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense: The Formative Years, 1947-1950

1988 James Edward Miller, The United States and Italy 1940-1950: The Politics and Diplomacy of Stabilization (The University of North Carolina Press)

1990 Richard Greening Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, Atoms for Peace and War 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission (University of California Press)

1992 Donald A. Ritchie, Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents (Harvard University Press)

1994 Donald R. Baucom, The Origins of SDI, 1944-1983 (University Press of Kansas)

1996 Barton C. Hacker, Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947-1974 (University of California Press)

1998 Andrew J. Butrica, To See the Unseen: A History of Planetary Radar Astronomy (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

2000 William M. Hammond, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War (University Press of Kansas)

2002  Dale Andradé, U.S. Army Center of Military History, and Kenneth Conboy, Control Risks Group, Indonesia, Spies and Commandos:  How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam (University Press of Kansas)

Gary E. Weir, U.S. Naval Historical Center, An Ocean in Common:  American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment (Texas A & M University Press)

2004  Peter S. Kindsvatter, U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, American Soldiers:  Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam (University Press of Kansas)

2006 Robert J. Schneller Jr., Naval Historical Center, Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality (New York University Press)

2008 Michael J. Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Alfred A. Knopf)