| 2026 | Winner | Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades | David Eltis | Cambridge University Press |
| 2026 | Winner | Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries | Daniela Richterova | Georgetown University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History | Jan Machielsen | Bloomsbury |
| 2025 | Winner | The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War | Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston,, Pierre Asselin | Cambridge University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa | Anthony Grafton | Belknap Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos | Travis Zadeh | Harvard University Press |
| 2023 | Winner | The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933 | Patrick O. Cohrs | Cambridge University Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Andrew S. Curran | Harvard University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries | Emma Rothschild | Princeton University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam | Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu | Duke University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Forging a Unitary State | John P. LeDonne | University of Toronto Press |
| 2021 | Winner | Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe | Judith Herrin | Princeton University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History | Steven T. Katz | Cambridge University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages | Geraldine Heng | Cambridge University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution | Yuri Slezkine | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | Tamta’s World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia | Antony Eastmond | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 | Carlos M.N. Eire | Yale University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy | Joel Mokyr | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture | Elizabeth Buettner | Cambridge University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East | John Chalcraft | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains | Thomas W. Laqueur | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century | Konrad H. Jarausch | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 | Marlene L. Daut | Liverpool University Press |
| 2015 | Winner | Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre | Jonathan Israel | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution | Ada Ferrer | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad | Brian A. Catlos | Macmillan |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914 | T.G. Otte | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Age of the Vikings | Anders Winroth | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern | Princeton University Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation | Robert Bartlett | Princeton University Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century | Geoffrey Parker | Yale University Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane | S. Frederick Starr | Princeton University Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | Strategy: A History | Sir Lawrence Freedman | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | Winner | The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 | S.C.M. Paine | Cambridge University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War | R.M. Douglas | Yale University Press |
| 2008 | Winner | Europe Between the Oceans: 9000BC-AD1000 | Barry Cunliffe | Yale University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Death by a Thousand Cuts | Timothy Brook, Jerome Bourgon, Gregory Blue | Harvard University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | The Tropics of Empire | Nicolas Wey Gomez | MIT Press |
| 2007 | Winner | The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession | Carla Rahn Phillips | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 | Liam Matthew Brockey | Belknap Press |