| 2025 | Winner | Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939 | Samuel J. Hirst | Oxford University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean | Chelsea Schields | University of California Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era | Emily Marker | Cornell University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe | Emily Greble | Oxford University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II | Francine Hirsch | Oxford University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 | Emma Kuby | Cornell University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism | Quinn E. Slobodian | Harvard University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World | Corey Ross | Oxford University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire | Erik Linstrum | Harvard University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950 | Vanessa Ogle | Harvard University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-60 | Frederick Cooper | Princeton University Press |
| 2014 | Winner | What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France | Mary Louise Roberts | University of Chicago Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War | R.M. Douglas | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Winner | The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II | Tara Zahra | Harvard University Press |
| 2011 | Winner | Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany | David Ciarlo | Harvard University Press |
| 2011 | Winner | Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-18 | Michael Reynolds | Cambridge University Press |
| 2010 | Winner | Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II | Holly Case | Stanford University Press |
| 2009 | Winner | The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe | William I. Hitchcock | Free Press |
| 2008 | Winner | For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War | Melvyn Leffler | Hill and Wang |
| 2007 | Winner | An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 | J. P. Daughton | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Winner | Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam | Mark Lawrence | University of California Press |
| 2005 | Winner | Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938 | Carole Fink | Cambridge University Press |
| 2004 | Winner | A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland | Kate Brown | Harvard University Press |
| 2003 | Winner | The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 | Timothy Snyder | Yale University Press |
| 2002 | Winner | A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era | Matthew Connelly | Oxford University Press |
| 2001 | Winner | Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-56 | John Connelly | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2000 | Winner | A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63 | Marc Trachtenberg | Princeton University Press |
| 1999 | Winner | Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age | Daniel Rodgers | Belknap Press |
| 1998 | Winner | Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys | Jeffrey Herf | Harvard University Press |
| 1997 | Winner | The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years | Vojtech Mastny | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany | Mary Nolan | Oxford University Press |
| 1994 | Winner | A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II | Gerhard Weinberg | Cambridge University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918-24 | Christine White | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1992 | Winner | The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-40 | Nicole Jordan | Cambridge University Press |
| 1991 | Winner | Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-55 | John Gillingham | Cambridge University Press |
| 1990 | Winner | Between Churchill and Stalin. The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance | Steven Miner | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1989 | Winner | The Twilight of the French Eastern Alliances, 1926-36: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland | Piotr Wandycz | Princeton University Press |
| 1988 | Winner | The Marshall Plan: America, Great Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-52 | Michael Hogan | Cambridge University Press |
| 1987 | Winner | Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism | Philip Khoury | Princeton University Press |
| 1985 | Winner | The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 | Carole Fink | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1984 | Winner | The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-51: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism | Wm. Roger Louis | Clarendon Press |
| 1983 | Winner | Poland’s Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-43 | Sarah Terry | Princeton University Press |
| 1982 | Winner | Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-41: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy’s Last War | MacGregor Knox | Cambridge University Press |
| 1981 | Winner | Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 | Sally Marks | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1979 | Winner | German Rearmament and the West, 1932-33 | Edward Bennett | Princeton University Press |
| 1977 | Winner | The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan. | Stephen Schuker | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1976 | Winner | Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I | Charles Maier | Princeton University Press |
| 1972 | Winner | Locarno Diplomacy: Germany and the West | Jon Jacobson | Princeton University Press |
| 1971 | Winner | The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany, Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933-36 | Gerhard Weinberg | University of Chicago Press |
| 1970 | Winner | The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904-14 | Samuel Williamson, Jr. | Harvard University Press |
| 1969 | Winner | Britain and the Russian Civil War, November 1918-February 1920 | Richard Ullman | Princeton University Press |
| 1967 | Winner | The Volunteer Army and the Revolution in South Russia | George Brinkley | University of Notre Dame Press |
| 1967 | Winner | French Communism in the Making | Robert Wohl | Stanford University Press |
| 1965 | Winner | British Strategy and Politics, 1914-18 | Paul Guinn, Jr. | Clarendon Press |
| 1964 | Winner | Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference | Ivo Lederer | Yale University Press |
| 1964 | Winner | Land and Power: British and Allied Policy on Germany’s Frontiers, 1916-19 | Harold Nelson | University of Toronto Press |
| 1963 | Winner | Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931 | Edward Bennett | Harvard University Press |
| 1963 | Winner | The Path to European Union | Hans Schmitt | LSU Press |
| 1962 | Winner | France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-25 | Piotr Wandycz | University of Minnesota Press |
| 1961 | Winner | Mussolini’s Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance | Charles Delzell | Princeton University Press |
| 1960 | Winner | Defeated Leaders: The Political Fate of Cailleux, Jouvenel, and Tardieu | Rudolph Binion | Columbia University Press |
| 1959 | Winner | The World War and American Isolation, 1914-17 | Ernest May | Harvard University Press |
| 1958 | Winner | The United States and East Central Europe | Victor Mamatey | Princeton University Press |
| 1957 | Winner | German Rule in Russia, 1941-45 | Alexander Dallin | St. Martin's Press |
| 1956 | Winner | Mitteleuropa in German Thought and Action, 1815-1945 | Henry Meyer | Batsford |
| 1955 | Winner | The Formation of the Soviet Union | Richard Pipes | Harvard University Press |
| 1954 | Winner | Serbia Between East and West: The Events of 1903-08 | Wayne Vucinich | Stanford University Press |
| 1953 | Winner | Woodrow Wilson and the Far East | Russell Fifield | Cornell University Press |
| 1952 | Winner | Peace in Their Time: The Origins of the Kellogg-Briand Pact | Robert Ferrell | Yale University Press |
| 1943 | Winner | British Enterprise in Nigeria | Arthur Cook | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1941 | Winner | The Anatomy of British Sea Power | Arthur Marder | Knopf |
| 1940 | Winner | The American Impact on Great Britain, 1898-1914 | Richard Heindel | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1939 | Winner | Background of Anti-English Feeling in Germany, 1890-1902 | Pauline Anderson | American University Press |
| 1938 | Winner | Italy at the Paris Peace Conference | Rene Albrecht-Carrie | Columbia University Press |
| 1937 | Winner | The Career of Théophile Delcassé | Charles Porter | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1934 | Winner | Great Britain and the German Trade Rivalry, 1875-1914 | Ross Hoffman | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1933 | Winner | China’s Foreign Relations, 1917-31 | Robert Pollard | Macmillan |
| 1932 | Winner | Austro-German Diplomatic Relations, 1908-14 | Oswald Wedel | Stanford University Press |
| 1931 | Winner | Germany and the Diplomatic Revolution: A Study in Diplomacy and the Press, 1904-06 | Oron Hale | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 1930 | Winner | The Coming of the War, 2 vols. | Bernadotte Schmitt | Scribner |
| 1929 | Winner | Fashoda: The Incident and Its Diplomatic Setting | Morrison Giffen | University of Chicago Press |
| 1928 | Winner | The Origins of the World War, 2 vols. | Sidney Fay | Macmillan |
| 1925 | Winner | Southern Albania or Northern Epirus in European International Affairs, 1912-23 | Edith Stickney | Stanford University Press |
| 1924 | Winner | The Foreign Policies of Soviet Russia | Alfred Dennis | Dutton |
| 1923 | Winner | The Mandatory System: Its Historical Background and Relation to the New Imperialism | Walter Batsell | Macmillan |
| 1923 | Winner | Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway | Edward Earle | Macmillan |