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FOR AMERICAN HISTORY AND DIPLOMACY 1948-2003 |
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This Award, made by a Columbia University Committee, was initiated in 1948 and is presented to the authors of distinguished works in either or both of the following categories: American History (including biography) and Diplomacy. The competition is open to all persons whether connected with Columbia University or not, and of any nationality.
| 2003 | James F. Brooks | Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands |
| Alan Gallay | The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717 | |
| 2002 | David Blight | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| Alice Kessler-Harris | In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America | |
| 2001 | Michael A. Bellesiles | Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture |
| Susan Lee Johnson | Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush | |
| David Nasaw | The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst | |
| 2000 | John Dower | Embracing Defeat |
| Linda Gordon | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction | |
| James Merrell | Into the American Woods | |
| 1999 | Ira Berlin | Many Thousands Gone |
| Jill Lepore | The Name of War | |
| 1998 | Christine Leigh Heyrman | Southern Cross |
| Walter Lafeber | The Clash | |
| Thomas Sugrue | The Origins of the Urban Crisis | |
| 1997 | David Kyvig | Explicit and Authentic Acts |
| James Patterson | Grand Expectations | |
| 1996 | David Reynolds | Walt Whitman's America |
| Alan Taylor | William Cooper's Town | |
| 1995 | John Brooke | The Refiner's Fire |
| John Dittmer | Local People | |
| 1994 | Stanley Elkins & Eric McKintrick | The Age of Federalism |
| Winthrop Jordan | Tumult and Silence at Second Creek | |
| David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1911 | |
| 1993 | Charles Capper | Margaret Fuller |
| Melvyn Leffler | A Preponderance of Power | |
| 1992 | William Cronon | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West |
| Charles Royster | The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans | |
| 1991 | Lizabeth Cohen | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 |
| Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale | |
| 1990 | Neil McMillen | Dark Journey |
| James Merrell | The Indian's New World | |
| 1989 | Eric Foner | Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
| Edmund Morgan | Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America | |
| 1988 | Michael Sherry | The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon |
| Peter Kolchin | Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom | |
| 1987 | Thomas Doerflinger | A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise |
| Roger Lane | Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 | |
| 1986 | Kenneth Jackson | Crabgrass Frontier |
| Jacqueline Jones | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow | |
| 1985 | Suzanne Lebsock | The Free Women of Petersburg |
| Kenneth Silverman | The Life and Times of Cotton Mather | |
| 1984 | Louis Harlan | Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee |
| Paul Starr | Social Transformation of American Medicine | |
| 1983 | John Demos | Entertaining Satan |
| Nick Salvatore | Eugene V. Debs | |
| 1982 | Edward Countryman | A People in Revolution |
| Mary Ryan | Cradle of the Middle Class | |
| 1981 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
| Jean Strouse | Alice James | |
| 1980 | Robert Dallek | FDR and American Foreign Policy |
| Thomas Dublin | Women at Work | |
| Donald Worster | Dust Bowl | |
| 1979 | Christopher Thorne | Allies of a Kind |
| Anthony Wallace | Rockdale | |
| 1978 | Alfred Chandler, Jr. | The Visible Hand |
| Morton Horwitz | The Transformation of American Law | |
| 1977 | Alan Dawley | Class and Community |
| Robert Gross | The Minuteman and Their World | |
| Barry Higman | Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica | |
| 1976 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 |
| R.W.B. Lewis | Edith Wharton | |
| 1975 | Robert William Fogel & Stanley Enerman | Time on the Cross |
| Eugene Genovese | Roll, Jordan, Roll | |
| Alexander George & Richard Smoke | Deterrence in American Foreign Policy | |
| 1974 | Ray Allen Billington | Frederick Jackson Turner |
| Townsend Hoopes | The Devil and John Foster Dulles | |
| Stephen Thernstrom | The Other Bostonians | |
| 1973 | Frances FitzGerald | Fire in the Lake |
| John Lewis Gaddis | The United States and the Origins of the Cold War | |
| Louis Harlan | Booker T. Washington | |
| 1972 | Carl Degler | Neither Black Nor White |
| Robert Middlekauff | The Mathers | |
| Samuel Eliot Morison | The European Discovery of America | |
| 1971 | Erik Barnouw | The Image Empire |
| David Kennedy | Birth Control in America | |
| John Frazier Wall | Andrew Carnegie | |
| 1970 | Don Carter | Scottsboro |
| Charles Sellers | Charles Wilson Peale | |
| Gordon Wood | The Creation of the American Republic | |
| 1969 | Winthrop Jordan | White Over Black |
| N. Gordon Levin, Jr. | Woodrow Wilson and World Politics | |
| Rexford Guy Tugwell | The Brains Trust | |
| 1968 | Bernard Bailyn | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| Henry Allan Bullock | A History of Negro Education in the South | |
| Richard Bushman | From Puritan to Yankee | |
| 1967 | William Freehling | Prelude to Civil War |
| Charles Sellers | James K. Polk, Continentalist, Volume 2 | |
| James Sterling Young | The Washington Community, 1800-1828 | |
| 1966 | Theodore Friend III | Between Two Empires |
| Richard Morris | The Peacemakers | |
| 1965 | Dorothy Borg | The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis |
| Bradford Perkins | Castlereagh and Adams | |
| William Wilcox | Portrait of a General | |
| 1964 | William Leuchtenburg | Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal |
| Paul Seabury | Power, Freedom and Democracy | |
| John Thomas | The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison | |
| 1963 | Page Smith | John Adams |
| John Stoessinger | The Might of Nations | |
| Roberta Wohlstetter | Pearl Harbor | |
| 1962 | Lawrence Cremin | The Transformation of the School |
| Martin Duberman | Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 | |
| Felix Gilbert | To the Farewell Address | |
| 1961 | Arthur Link | Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality |
| Merrill Peterson | The Jefferson Image in the American Mind | |
| 1960 | Margaret Leech | In the Days of McKinley |
| R.R. Palmer | The Age of the Democratic Revolution | |
| 1959 | Daniel Boorstin | The Americans: The Colonial Experience |
| Ernest Samuels | Henry Adams: The Middle Years | |
| 1958 | Frank Luther Mott | History of American Magazines |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Crisis of the Old Order | |
| 1957 | George Kennan | Russia Leaves the War |
| Arthur Link | Wilson: The New Freedom | |
| 1956 | J.G. Randall & Richard Current | Lincoln the President |
| Elizabeth Stevenson | Henry Adams | |
| 1955 | Paul Horgan | Great River |
| Leonard White | The Jacksonians | |
| 1954 | William Langer & S. Everett Gleason | The Undeclared War |
| Clinton Rossiter | Seedtime of the Republic | |
| 1953 | George Dangerfield | The Era of Good Feelings |
| Eric Goldman | Rendezvous with Destiny | |
| 1952 | Merlo Pusey | Charles Evans Hughes |
| C. Vann Woodward | Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 | |
| 1951 | Arthur Holcombe | Our More Perfect Union |
| Henry Smith | Virgin Land | |
| 1950 | Herbert Bolton | Coronado |
| Lawrence Gibson | The Victorious Years, 1758-1760 | |
| 1949 | Samuel Eliot Morison | The Rising Sun in the Pacific |
| Robert Sherwood | Roosevelt and Hopkins | |
| 1948 | Bernard De Voto | Across the Wide Missouri |
| Allan Nevins | Ordeal of the Union |
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