Winners

• 1960: Albert William Levi, Philosophy and the Modern World (Indiana University Press)
• 1961: W. T. Stace, Mysticism and Philosophy (J.B. Lippincott)
• 1962: Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Ancient World (Harper & Brothers)
• 1963: Richard Hofstadter
  Richard Hofstadter
  Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...
  
  , Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Knopf)
• 1964: Thomas F. Gossett, Race: The History of An Idea in America (Southern Methodist University Press)
• 1965: Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World: American Culture-The Formative Years (Viking Press)
• 1966: John Herman Randall, Jr.
  John Herman Randall, Jr.
  John Herman Randall Jr. was an American philosopher, New Thought author, and educator.-Life:Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan as the son of a Baptist minister, he graduated from Morris High School in New York City and obtained his A.B. from Columbia University in 1918. He obtained an A.M...
  
  , The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (Columbia University Press)
• 1967: Robert Coles, Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
• 1968: Winthrop D. Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 (University of North Carolina Press)
• 1969: Peter Gay
  Peter Gay
  Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers . Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004...
  
  , Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insider (Harper & Row)
• 1970: Rollo May, Love and Will (Norton)
• 1971: Charles A. Barker, American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850 (J.B. Lippincott)
• 1972: John Rawls
  John Rawls
  John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....
  
  , A Theory of Justice (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• 1973: Barrington Moore, Jr., Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them (Beacon Press)
• 1974: Frederic C. Lane, Venice: A Maritime Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• 1975: Marshall Hodgson
  Marshall Hodgson
  Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson , was an Islamic Studies academic and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought in Chicago...
  
  , The Venture of Islam (University of Chicago Press)
• 1976: Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford University Press)
• 1977: Eugen Weber
  Eugen Weber
  Eugen Joseph Weber was a Romanian-born American historian with a special focus on Western Civilization and the Western Tradition....
  
  , Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford University Press)
• 1978: Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Yale University Press)
• 1979: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, Volumes I and II (Cambridge University Press)
• 1980: Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• 1981: George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (Oxford University Press)
• 1982: Robert Nozick
  Robert Nozick
  Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...
  
  , Philosophical Explanations (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• 1983: Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (University of North Carolina Press)
• 1984: David G. Roskies, Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Harvard University Press)
• 1985: Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (Oxford University Press)
• 1986: Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• 1987: Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Cambridge University Press)
• 1988: David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor (Cambridge University Press)
• 1989: Peter Brown (historian)
  Peter Brown (historian)
  Peter Robert Lamont Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. His principal contributions to the discipline have been in the field of late antiquity and, in particular, the religious culture of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe.-Life:Peter Brown was born in...
  
  , The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early Christianity (Columbia University Press)
• 1990: William L. Vance, America’s Rome, Volumes I and II (Yale University Press)
• 1991: Carl N. Degler, In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (Oxford University Press)
• 1992: Gordon S. Wood
  Gordon S. Wood
  Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize...
  
  , The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Knopf)
• 1993: Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
• 1994: David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (Henry Holt and Company)
• 1995: Caroline Walker Bynum, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 (Columbia University Press)
• 1996: Eloise Quinones Keber, Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript (University of Texas Press)
• 1997: Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (Yale University Press)
• 1998: Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (Alfred A. Knopf)
• 1999: H.C. Erik Midelfort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford University Press)
• 2000: Peter Novick
  Peter Novick
  Peter Novick is an American historian, best known for writing That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life...
  
  , The Holocaust in American Life (Houghton Mifflin)
• 2001: Debora Silverman, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (Straus and Giroux)
• 2002: Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell University Press)
• 2003: David Freedberg
  David Freedberg
  David Freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, USA.-Career:...
  
  , The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History (University of Chicago Press)
• 2004: Jennifer Michael Hecht
  Jennifer Michael Hecht
  Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, historian, philosopher, and author.Hecht's scholarly articles have been published in many journals and magazines, and her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Poetry Magazine, among others...
  
  , The End of the Soul (Columbia University Press)
• 2005: Isabel Virginia Hull
  Isabel Virginia Hull
  Isabel Virginia Hull is the John Stambaugh Professor of History and the former chair of the history department at Cornell University. She specializes in German history from 1700 to 1945, with a focus on sociopolitics, political theory, and gender/sexuality...
  
  , Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Cornell University Press)
• 2006: Susan Scott Parrish, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture)
• 2007: David Brion Davis
  David Brion Davis
  David Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a...
  
  , Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford University Press).
• 2008: Leor Halevi, Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press)
• 2009: Peter Trachtenberg
  Peter Trachtenberg
  -Life:He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA.He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh....
  
  , The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning (Little, Brown and Company)
• 2010: Susan M. Reverby, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (University of North Carolina Pres)

Sources

• http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=&id=22
• http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_Infoview.aspx?t=&id=58
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Award at lovethebook