Richard W. Leopold Prize Winners

2022

Christian Friedrich Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center, Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in Germany (Stanford University Press)

2020

Anand Toprani, U.S. Naval War College, Oil and the Great Powers: Britain and Germany, 1914–1945 (Oxford University Press)

2018

Richard S. Faulkner, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas)

2016

Jacqueline E. Whitt, Air War College, Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press)

2014

S.C.M. Paine, US Naval War College, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 (Cambridge University Press)

2012

William A. Dobak, The United States Army Center of Military History (retired), Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867 (The United States Army Center of Military History)

2010

J. Samuel Walker, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States (University of California Press)

2008

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

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)

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)

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)

2000

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

1998

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

1996

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

1994

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

1992

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

1988

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

1986

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

1984

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