2005

• Caitlin Love Crowell, Yale University, “Love Stories: The Intimate Lives of African-American Women Activists, 1880-1950.”
• Theresa Runstedtler, Yale University, “Journeymen: Boxing and the Popular Politics of Race, Nation, and Empire.”
• Lindsay M. Silver, Brandeis University, “‘The Nation’s Neighborhood:’ The People, Power and Politics of Capitol Hill Since the Civil War.”
• Emily Zuckerman, Rutgers University, “Beyond Dispute: EEOC v. Sears and the Politics of Affirmative Action, Gender, and Class, 1968-1986.”

2004

• Jacqueline Castledine, Rutgers University, "`The Fashion is Politics’: Women's Activism in the 1948 Progressive Party"
• Alyosha Goldstein, New York University, "Civic Poverty: An Empire for Liberty through Community Action"
• Daniel Link, New York University, "Containment Politics: Liberal Anticommunism in Cold War New York, 1944-1960"
• James Patrick McGowan, University of California at Davis, "Too Brave to Fight: American Conscientious Objectors and the War for Democracy, 1917-1920"

2003

• Thomas B. Robertson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Population Bomb: Population Growth, Environmental Politics, and Foreign Policy in the Twentieth-Century U.S."
• Ellen D. Wu, University of Chicago, "Yellow Perils, Yellow Power: Race, Class, and Asian American Citizenship, 1941-1975"
• James Wolfinger, Northwestern University, "The Rise and Fall of the Roosevelt Coalition: Race, Labor, and Politics in Philadelphia, 1932-1955"

2002

• Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago, “The Indian Service: The State, Gender, and Labor in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1869-1928”
• Sara M. Gregg, Columbia University, “From Farms to Forest: Federal Conservation and Resettlement Programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains, 1924-1976”
• Adriane D. Smith, Yale University, “All Things Sacred: African Americans and the First World War”
• Ann Marie Woodward, University of Kansas, “Between Growth and Entitlement: Fiscal Conservatism, Postwar Tax Policy and the Politics of ‘Pay-As-You-Go’”

2001

• Nancy A. Banks, Columbia University, "Workers Against Liberalism: The Struggle Over Affirmative Action in the New York City Building and Construction Trades, 1961-1976"
• Margot Canaday, University of Minnesota, "Good Citizens and the Straight State: Citizenship and Sexuality in the United States, 1917-1952"
• Daniel M. Cobb, University of Oklahoma, "Encountering an Indian War: Culture, Poverty, and the Politics of American Indian Participation in Community Action, 1964-1973"
• Eric Fure-Slocum, University of Iowa, "The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-1952"
• Neil M. Maher, Federated History Department of Rutgers University, Newark-New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Planting More Than Trees: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement"

2000 Craig Kaplowitz, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Paradox of Ethnic Identity: The League of United Latin American Citizens and U.S. Federal Policy, 1942-1975"

Robert Saxe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "World War II Veterans and the Creation of Consensus"

J. Douglas Smith, California Institute of Technology, "Saying No to Jim Crow: Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the Politics of White Supremacy in Alexandria, Virginia"

Minoa Uffelman, University of Mississippi, " `rite thorny places to go thro': Self Identities of Southern Farm Women, 1880-1930"

1999 Liette P. Gidlow, Bowling Green State University, "To Push the Pendulum: The Get-Out-the Vote Campaigns, Critical Theory, and the Future of Political History"

Andrew L. Johns, University of California--Santa Barbara, "Hawks, Doves and A Wise Old Owl: The Republican Party and the `Democrats' War in Vietnam, 1960-1969"

Lisa G. Materson, University of California--Los Angeles, "Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1870-1944"

Paul C. Milazzo, University of Virginia, "Legislating the Solution to Pollution: Congress and the Development of Federal Water Pollution Control Policy in the United States, 1945-1975"

R. Mark Phillips, Bowling Green State University, "Fueling the Fire: United States Political Asylum Policy Toward Central America"

1998 Edward O. Frantz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Going Dixie: Republican Presidential Tours of the South, 1877-1912

Kent B. Germany, Tulane University, "New Orleans and the Great Society: Federal Policy and Local Change, 1964-1978"

Mark Santow, University of Pennsylvania, "An American Faith: Saul Alinsky and Urban Democracy, 1939-1972"