2023
Winner
First among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity by Maurizio Valsania
Finalists
Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution by Mary Sarah Bilder
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer by Fred Kaplan
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
2022
Winner
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale
Finalists
Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the US Constitution by Max M. Edling
The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America by Julie Flavell
Minds and Hearts: The Story of James Otis, Jr. and Mercy Otis Warren by Jeffery H. Hacker
George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father by David O. Stewart
2021
Winner
1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton
Finalists
Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic by Mark Boonshoft
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens
The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution by Michael W. McConnell
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III
2020
Winner
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Finalists
Stolen: Five Free Boys Stolen into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell
The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President by Matthew R. Costello
Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America by Douglas Egerton
World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution by Richard Godbeer
A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution by David Head
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington by Martha Saxton
2019
Winner
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin Calloway
Finalists
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried
Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life by Joyce Lee Malcolm
In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by
Nathaniel Philbrick
Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto
Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father by Peter Stark
2018
Winner
George Washington: A Life in Books by Kevin J. Hayes
Finalists
The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence by S. Max Edelson
Boston's Massacre by Eric Hinderaker
Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis, Jr.
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century America by Jennifer Van Horn
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England by Douglas L. Winiarski
2017
Winner
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Finalists
George Washington's Journey: The President Forges a New Nation by T.H. Breen
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution by Michael J. Klarman
Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle by Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor
2016
Winner
The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" by Flora Fraser
Finalists
Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal
Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader by Robert Middlekauff
Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World by Janet Polasky
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of Monongahela and the Road to Revolution by David Preston
War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation by John Sedgwick
2015
Special Award
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Winner
Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker
Finalists
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Richard S. Dunn
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation by Francois Furstenberg
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding by Eric Nelson
2014
Winner
The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Finalists
The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy by Jeffrey L. Pasley
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
2013
Winner
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior by Stephen Brumwell
Finalists
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire by Eliga H. Gould
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times by Cynthia A. Kierner
Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood by Brian Steele
2012
Winner
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Finalists
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction by John Fea
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors by Benjamin H. Irvin
2011
Winner
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
Finalists
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor
2010
Winner
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
Finalists
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered by R.B. Bernstein
Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith B. Gelles
2009
Winner
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Finalists
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin J. Hayes
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky
2008
Winner
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Finalists
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton
1812: War with America by Jon Latimer
2007
Winner
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye
Finalists
In the Name of the Father by Francois Furstenberg
A Perfect Union by Catherine Allgor
2006
Winner
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff
Finalists
General George Washington: A Military Life by Edward Lengel
America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 by Stanley Weintraub
2005
Winner
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Finalists
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom by Rhys Isaac
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by by Gordon S. Wood
