| 2026 | Winner | We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution | Jill Lepore | Liveright |
| 2026 | Finalist | Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City | Bench Ansfield | W. W. Norton |
| 2026 | Finalist | King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic Miscalculation | Scott Anderson | Doubleday |
| 2025 | Co-winner | Native Nations: A Millennium in North America | Kathleen DuVal | Random House |
| 2025 | Co-winner | Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | Edda L. Fields-Black | Oxford University Press |
| 2025 | Finalist | Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery | Seth Rockman | University of Chicago Press |
| 2024 | Winner | No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era | Jacqueline Jones | Basic Books |
| 2024 | Finalist | American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Michael Willrich | Basic Books |
| 2024 | Finalist | Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion | Elliott West | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power | Jefferson Cowie | Basic Books |
| 2023 | Finalist | Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America | Michael John Witgen | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2023 | Finalist | Watergate: A New History | Garrett M. Graff | Avid Reader Press |
| 2022 | Co-winner | Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America | Nicole Eustace | Liveright |
| 2022 | Co-winner | Cuba: An American History | Ada Ferrer | Scribner |
| 2022 | Finalist | Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction | Kate Masur | W. W. Norton |
| 2021 | Winner | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America | Marcia Chatelain | Liveright |
| 2021 | Finalist | The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America | Eric Cervini | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2021 | Finalist | The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West | Megan Kate Nelson | Scribner |
| 2020 | Winner | Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America | W. Caleb McDaniel | Oxford University Press |
| 2020 | Finalist | Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2020 | Finalist | The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America | Greg Grandin | Metropolitan Books |
| 2019 | Winner | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | David W. Blight | Simon & Schuster |
| 2019 | Finalist | American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic | Victoria Johnson | Liveright |
| 2019 | Finalist | Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition | W. Fitzhugh Brundage | Yale University Press |
| 2018 | Winner | The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea | Jack E. Davis | Liveright |
| 2018 | Finalist | Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein | Metropolitan Books |
| 2018 | Finalist | Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots against Hollywood and America | Steven J. Ross | Bloomsbury |
| 2017 | Winner | Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy | Heather Ann Thompson | Pantheon |
| 2017 | Finalist | New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America | Wendy Warren | Liveright |
| 2017 | Finalist | Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It | Larrie D. Ferreiro | Knopf |
| 2016 | Winner | Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America | T. J. Stiles | Knopf |
| 2016 | Finalist | Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor | James M. Scott | W. W. Norton |
| 2016 | Finalist | Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War | Brian Matthew Jordan | Liveright |
| 2016 | Finalist | The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency | Annie Jacobsen | Little, Brown |
| 2015 | Winner | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People | Elizabeth A. Fenn | Hill and Wang |
| 2015 | Finalist | An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America | Nick Bunker | Knopf |
| 2015 | Finalist | Empire of Cotton: A Global History | Sven Beckert | Penguin Books |
| 2014 | Winner | The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832 | Alan Taylor | W. W. Norton |
| 2014 | Finalist | A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America | Jacqueline Jones | Basic Books |
| 2014 | Finalist | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety | Eric Schlosser | Penguin Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam | Fredrik Logevall | Random House |
| 2013 | Finalist | Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History | John Fabian Witt | Simon & Schuster |
| 2013 | Finalist | The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 | Bernard Bailyn | Vintage Books |
| 2012 | Winner | Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Manning Marable | Viking |
| 2012 | Finalist | Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 | Anne F. Hyde | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2012 | Finalist | Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America | Richard White | W. W. Norton |
| 2012 | Finalist | The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden | Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan | Unknown |
| 2011 | Winner | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery | Eric Foner | W. W. Norton |
| 2011 | Finalist | Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South | Stephanie McCurry | Harvard University Press |
| 2011 | Finalist | Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston | Michael J. Rawson | Unknown |
| 2010 | Winner | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Liaquat Ahamed | Penguin Press |
| 2010 | Finalist | Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 | Gordon S. Wood | Oxford University Press |
| 2010 | Finalist | Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City | Greg Grandin | Metropolitan Books |
| 2009 | Winner | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | Annette Gordon-Reed | W. W. Norton |
| 2009 | Finalist | The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s | G. Calvin Mackenzie, Robert Weisbrot | Penguin Press |
| 2009 | Finalist | This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust | Vintage Books |
| 2008 | Winner | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 | Daniel Walker Howe | Oxford University Press |
| 2008 | Finalist | Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power | Robert Dallek | Unknown |
| 2008 | Finalist | The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War | David Halberstam | Unknown |
| 2007 | Winner | The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff | Knopf |
| 2007 | Finalist | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War | Nathaniel Philbrick | Viking |
| 2007 | Finalist | Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005 | James T. Campbell | Penguin Press |
| 2006 | Winner | Polio: An American Story | David Oshinsky | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Finalist | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan | Jill Lepore | Knopf |
| 2006 | Finalist | The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln | Sean Wilentz | W. W. Norton |
| 2005 | Winner | Washington's Crossing | David Hackett Fischer | Oxford University Press |
| 2005 | Finalist | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age | Kevin Boyle | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2005 | Finalist | Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 | Michael O’Brien | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2004 | Winner | A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration | Steven Hahn | Belknap Press |
| 2004 | Finalist | Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center | Daniel Okrent | Unknown |
| 2004 | Finalist | They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 | David Maraniss | Simon & Schuster |
| 2003 | Winner | An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 | Rick Atkinson | Little, Brown |
| 2003 | Finalist | At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America | Philip Dray | Random House |
| 2003 | Finalist | Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America | Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz | Knopf |
| 2002 | Winner | The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America | Louis Menand | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2002 | Finalist | Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation | J. William Harris | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2002 | Finalist | Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America | Daniel K. Richter | Harvard University Press |
| 2001 | Winner | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph J. Ellis | Knopf |
| 2001 | Finalist | The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States | Alexander Keyssar | Basic Books |
| 2001 | Finalist | Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War | Frances FitzGerald | Simon & Schuster |
| 2000 | Winner | Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 | David M. Kennedy | Oxford University Press |
| 2000 | Finalist | Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier | James H. Merrell | W. W. Norton |
| 2000 | Finalist | The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America | Kevin Phillips | HarperCollins |
| 1999 | Winner | Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace | Oxford University Press |
| 1999 | Finalist | In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival | Paula Mitchell Marks | William Morrow |
| 1999 | Finalist | This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age | William E. Burrows | Modern Library |
| 1998 | Winner | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion | Edward J. Larson | Harvard University Press |
| 1998 | Finalist | Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America | J. Anthony Lukas | Simon & Schuster |
| 1998 | Finalist | Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History | Rogers M. Smith | Yale University Press |
| 1997 | Winner | Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Jack N. Rakove | Vintage Books |
| 1997 | Finalist | Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society | Mary Beth Norton | Knopf |
| 1997 | Finalist | The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America's Most Cherished Holiday | Stephen Nissenbaum | Unknown |
| 1996 | Winner | William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic | Alan Taylor | Knopf |
| 1996 | Finalist | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb | Richard Rhodes | Simon & Schuster |
| 1996 | Finalist | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic | Lance Banning | Cornell University Press |
| 1995 | Winner | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Simon & Schuster |
| 1995 | Finalist | Lincoln in American Memory | Merrill D. Peterson | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | Finalist | Stories of Scottsboro | James Goodman | Vintage Books |
| 1994 | Finalist | Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK | Gerald Posner | Unknown |
| 1994 | Finalist | Crime and Punishment in American History | Lawrence M. Friedman | Unknown |
| 1994 | Finalist | William Faulkner and Southern History | Joel Williamson | Oxford University Press |
| 1993 | Winner | The Radicalism of the American Revolution | Gordon S. Wood | Knopf |
| 1993 | Finalist | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America | Garry Wills | Simon & Schuster |
| 1993 | Finalist | The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction | Edward L. Ayers | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Winner | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties | Mark E. Neely, Jr. | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Finalist | A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs | Theodore Draper | Simon & Schuster |
| 1992 | Finalist | Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West | William Cronon | W. W. Norton |
| 1992 | Finalist | Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century | John Frederick Martin | Unknown |
| 1992 | Finalist | The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 | Richard White | Cambridge University Press |
| 1991 | Winner | A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Knopf |
| 1991 | Finalist | America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink | Kenneth M. Stampp | Oxford University Press |
| 1991 | Finalist | Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939 | Lizabeth Cohen | Cambridge University Press |
| 1991 | Finalist | The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy | Hugh Davis Graham | Unknown |
| 1990 | Winner | In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines | Stanley Karnow | Random House |
| 1990 | Finalist | American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970 | Thomas P. Hughes | Viking |
| 1990 | Finalist | The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I | Hugh Honour | Harvard University Press |
| 1989 | Co-winner | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era | James M. McPherson | Oxford University Press |
| 1989 | Co-winner | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 | Taylor Branch | Simon & Schuster |
| 1989 | Finalist | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam | Neil Sheehan | Random House |
| 1989 | Finalist | Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 | Eric Foner | HarperCollins |
| 1988 | Winner | The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 | Robert V. Bruce | Knopf |
| 1988 | Finalist | The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System | Charles E. Rosenberg | Basic Books |
| 1988 | Finalist | The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 | David Montgomery | Cambridge University Press |
| 1987 | Winner | Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution | Bernard Bailyn | Knopf |
| 1987 | Finalist | Bearing The Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference | David J. Garrow | William Morrow |
| 1987 | Finalist | Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945 | David Eisenhower | Unknown |
| 1986 | Winner | ...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age | Walter A. McDougall | Basic Books |
| 1986 | Finalist | Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America | Kerby A. Miller | Unknown |
| 1986 | Finalist | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present | Jacqueline Jones | Basic Books |
| 1986 | Finalist | Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution | Forrest McDonald | University Press of Kansas |
| 1985 | Winner | Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn | Thomas K. McCraw | Belknap Press |
| 1985 | Finalist | The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation | Joel Williamson | Oxford University Press |
| 1985 | Finalist | The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians | Francis Paul Prucha | Unknown |
| 1983 | Winner | The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 | Rhys L. Isaac | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1983 | Finalist | Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South | Bertram Wyatt-Brown | Oxford University Press |
| 1983 | Finalist | The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 | Robert Middlekauff | Oxford University Press |
| 1982 | Winner | Mary Chesnut's Civil War | C. Vann Woodward | Yale University Press |
| 1982 | Finalist | Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 | Akira Iriye | Unknown |
| 1982 | Finalist | White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American & South African History | George M. Fredrickson | Oxford University Press |
| 1981 | Winner | American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 | Lawrence A. Cremin | Harper & Row |
| 1981 | Finalist | A Search for Power: The 'Weaker Sex' in Seventeenth Century New England | Lyle Koehler | Unknown |
| 1981 | Finalist | Over Here: The First World War and American Society | David M. Kennedy | Oxford University Press |
| 1980 | Winner | Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery | Leon F. Litwack | Knopf |
| 1980 | Finalist | The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 | John B. Unruh | Unknown |
| 1980 | Finalist | The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness and the Origins of the American Revolution | Gary B. Nash | Harvard University Press |
| 1979 | Finalist | The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics | Don E. Fehrenbacher | Unknown |
| 1978 | Finalist | The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business | Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | Belknap Press |
| 1977 | Finalist | The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 | David M. Potter, Don E. Fehrenbacher | Unknown |
| 1976 | Finalist | Lamy of Santa Fe | Paul Horgan | Wesleyan University Press |
| 1975 | Finalist | Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello | Dumas Malone | Unknown |
| 1974 | Finalist | The Americans: The Democratic Experience | Daniel J. Boorstin | Random House |
| 1973 | Finalist | People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization | Michael Kammen | Unknown |
| 1972 | Finalist | Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States | Carl N. Degler | Macmillan |
| 1971 | Finalist | Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 | James MacGregor Burns | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1970 | Finalist | Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department | Dean Acheson | W. W. Norton |
| 1969 | Finalist | Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination | Leonard W. Levy | Unknown |
| 1968 | Finalist | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution | Bernard Bailyn | Harvard University Press |
| 1967 | Finalist | Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West | William H. Goetzmann | Unknown |
| 1966 | Finalist | The Life of the Mind in America | Perry Miller | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| 1965 | Finalist | The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 | Irwin Unger | Princeton University Press |
| 1964 | Finalist | Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town | Sumner Chilton Powell | Wesleyan University Press |
| 1963 | Finalist | Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 | Constance McLaughlin Green | Unknown |
| 1962 | Finalist | The Triumphant Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763–1766 | Lawrence H. Gipson | Random House |
| 1961 | Finalist | Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference | Herbert Feis | Princeton University Press |
| 1960 | Finalist | In the Days of McKinley | Margaret Leech | Harper & Brothers |
| 1959 | Finalist | The Republican Era: 1869–1901 | Leonard D. White, Jean Schneider | Unknown |
| 1958 | Finalist | Banks and Politics in America | Bray Hammond | Princeton University Press |
| 1957 | Finalist | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920 | George F. Kennan | Princeton University Press |
| 1956 | Finalist | The Age of Reform | Richard Hofstadter | Knopf |
| 1955 | Finalist | Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History | Paul Horgan | Rinehart & Company |
| 1954 | Finalist | A Stillness at Appomattox | Bruce Catton | Pocket Books |
| 1953 | Finalist | The Era of Good Feelings | George Dangerfield | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| 1952 | Finalist | The Uprooted | Oscar Handlin | Little, Brown |
| 1951 | Finalist | The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815–1840 | R. Carlyle Buley | Unknown |
| 1950 | Finalist | Art and Life in America | Oliver W. Larkin | Rinehart & Company |
| 1949 | Finalist | The Disruption of American Democracy | Roy Franklin Nichols | Unknown |
| 1948 | Finalist | Across the Wide Missouri | Bernard DeVoto | Houghton Mifflin |
| 1947 | Finalist | Scientists Against Time | James Phinney Baxter III | Little, Brown |
| 1946 | Finalist | The Age of Jackson | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | Little, Brown |
| 1945 | Finalist | Unfinished Business | Stephen Bonsal | Unknown |
| 1944 | Finalist | The Growth of American Thought | Merle Curti | Unknown |
| 1943 | Finalist | Paul Revere and the World He Lived In | Esther Forbes | Unknown |
| 1942 | Finalist | Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 | Margaret Leech | Greenwood Press |
| 1941 | Finalist | The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 | Marcus Lee Hansen | Unknown |
| 1940 | Finalist | Abraham Lincoln: The War Years | Carl Sandburg | Harcourt, Brace and Company |
| 1939 | Finalist | A History of American Magazines, Volume IV | Frank Luther Mott | Harvard University Press |
| 1938 | Finalist | The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 | Paul Herman Buck | Unknown |
| 1937 | Finalist | The Flowering of New England: 1815–1865 | Van Wyck Brooks | Unknown |
| 1936 | Finalist | A Constitutional History of the United States | Andrew C. McLaughlin | Unknown |
| 1935 | Finalist | The Colonial Period of American History | Charles McLean Andrews | Unknown |
| 1934 | Finalist | The People's Choice | Herbert Agar | Unknown |
| 1933 | Finalist | The Significance of Sections in American History | Frederick Jackson Turner | Unknown |
| 1932 | Finalist | My Experiences in the World War | John J. Pershing | Unknown |
| 1931 | Finalist | The Coming of the War, 1914 | Bernadotte E. Schmitt | Unknown |
| 1930 | Finalist | The War of Independence | Claude H. Van Tyne | Unknown |
| 1929 | Finalist | The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 | Fred Albert Shannon | Unknown |
| 1928 | Finalist | Main Currents in American Thought | Vernon Louis Parrington | Unknown |
| 1927 | Finalist | Pinckney's Treaty | Samuel Flagg Bemis | Unknown |
| 1926 | Finalist | A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865) | Edward Channing | Unknown |
| 1925 | Finalist | History of the American Frontier | Frederic L. Paxson | Unknown |
| 1924 | Finalist | The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation | Charles Howard McIlwain | Macmillan |
| 1923 | Finalist | The Supreme Court in United States History | Charles Warren | Unknown |
| 1922 | Finalist | The Founding of New England | James Truslow Adams | Unknown |
| 1921 | Finalist | The Victory at Sea | William Sowden Sims, Burton J. Hendrick | Unknown |
| 1920 | Finalist | The War with Mexico | Justin H. Smith | Unknown |
| 1918 | Finalist | A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 | James Ford Rhodes | Unknown |
| 1917 | Finalist | With Americans of Past and Present Days | Jean Jules Jusserand | Unknown |