Ellis W. Hawley Prize Winners

2012 Darren Dochuk, Purdue University, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)

2011 Nick Cullather, Indiana University, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia (Harvard University Press)

Honorable Mention: Samuel Zipp, Brown University, Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Oxford University Press)

2010 Margot Canaday, Princeton University, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press)

2009 Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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