John H. Dunning Prize

List of prizewinners

• 2019 -- Christina N. Snyder, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
• 2017 -- Matthew Karp, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
• 2015 -- Kate Brown, '
• 2013 -- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, '
• 2011—Darren T. Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism
• 2009 -- Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America
• 2007—Linda L. Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge
• 2005—Jon T. Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
• 2003—Michael Willrich, City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
• 2001—Ernest Freeberg, The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
• 1999—Marilyn C. Baseler, Asylum for Mankind: America, 1607-1800
• 1997—Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
• 1995—Daniel Vickers,
• 1993—A. Gregg Roeber, Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America
• 1993—Daniel H. Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Before 1783
• 1991—Eric Arnesen, Waterfront Worker of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923
• 1990 -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
• 1989 -- Drew R. McCoy, The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy
• 1988—Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
• 1987—Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800
• 1986 -- Barbara J. Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the 19th Century
• 1984 -- Nick Salvatore, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
• 1982—David J. Jeremy, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies between Britain and America
• 1980—John D. Unruh Jr., The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the TransMississippi West, 1840-60
• 1978—J. Mills Thornton, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1861
• 1976 -- Thomas S. Hines, Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner
• 1974 -- Paul S. Boyer, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
• 1974—Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
• 1972 -- John Patrick Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America
• 1970 -- Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
• 1968—Robert L. Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900
• 1966—John W. Shy, Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the American Revolution
• 1964—John H. Cox, Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-66)
• 1964 -- LaWanda Cox, Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-66
• 1962—E. James Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-90
• 1960 -- Eric McKitrick, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
• 1958—Marvin Bud Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion
• 1956 -- John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism
• 1954—Gerald H. Carson, The Old Country Store
• 1952 -- Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History
• 1952—Beatrice Jones Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History
• 1950 -- Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
• 1948—William E. Livezey, Mahan on Sea Power
• 1946—David M. Ellis, Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson Mohawk Region
• 1944—Elting E. Morison, Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy
• 1942 -- Oscar Handlin, Boston's Immigrants
• 1940 -- Richard W. Leopold, Robert Dale Owen
• 1938—Robert A. East, Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era
• 1935 -- Angie Debo, The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
• 1933—Amos A. Ettinger, The Mission to Spain of Pierre Soule
• 1931 -- Francis Butler Simkins, South Carolina During Reconstruction
• 1931—R. H. Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction
• 1929—Haywood J. Pearce Jr., Benjamin H. Hill: Secession and Reconstruction