| 1950 | Ralph L. Rusk | Ralph Waldo Emerson (artigo sobre Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| 1951 | Newton Arvin | Herman Melville (artigo sobre Herman Melville) |
| 1952 | Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 | Bernard A. De Voto | The Course of Empire |
| 1954 | Bruce Catton | A Stillness at Appomattox |
| 1955 | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Measure of Man |
| 1956 | Herbert Kubly | An American in Italy |
| 1957 | George F. Kennan | Russia Leaves the War |
| 1958 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | The Lion and the Throne (artigo sobre Edward Coke) |
| 1959 | J. Christopher Herold | Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael |
| 1960 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce (artigo sobre James Joyce} |
| 1961 | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| 1962 | Lewis Mumford | The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects |
| 1963 | Leon Edel | Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years |
| 1984 | Robert V. Remini | Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 (artigo sobre Andrew Jackson) |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | Arctic Dreams |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atom Bomb |
| 1988 | Neil Sheehan | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (article on John Paul Vann) |
| 1989 | Thomas L. Friedman | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| 1990 | Ron Chernow | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance |
| 1991 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom |
| 1992 | Paul Monette | Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story |
| 1993 | Gore Vidal | United States: Essays 1952-1992 |
| 1994 | Sherwin B. Nuland | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| 1995 | Tina Rosenberg | The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism |
| 1996 | James Carroll | An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us |
| 1997 | Joseph J. Ellis | American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson |
| 1998 | Edward Ball | Slaves in the Family |
| 1999 | John W. Dower | Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II |
| 2000 | Nathaniel Philbrick | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex |
| 2001 | Andrew Solomon | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression |
| 2002 | Robert A. Caro | Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 2003 | Carlos Eire | Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy |
| 2004 | Kevin Boyle | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age |
| 2005 | Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking |
| 2006 | Timothy Egan | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
| 2007 | Tim Weiner | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
| 2008 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family |
| 2009 | T.J. Stiles | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| 2010 | Patti Smith | Just Kids |
| 2011 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
| 2012 | Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity[ |
| 2013 | George Packer | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America |
| 2014 | Evan Osnos | Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China |
| 2015 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me |
| 2016 | Ibram X. Kendi | Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America |
| 2017 | Masha Gessen | The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia |
| 2018 | Jeffrey C. Stewart | The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke |
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