2025
Gloria McCahon Whiting, Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
2024
Ava Purkiss, Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth O'Brien, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023)
2023
Adria Imada, An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin: Diasbility and Life Making during Medical Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022)
Honorable Mention: Wendy Rouse, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement (New York University Press, 2022)
2022
Sarah Coleman, The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America (Princeton, 2021)
2021
Hannah Dudley-Shotwell, Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America (Rutgers, 2020)
2020
Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
Honorable Mention: Katherine M. Marino, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2019)
2019
Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2018)
2018
Sue Peabody, Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies (Oxford University Press, 2017)
2017
Carolyn Chappell Lougee, Facing the Revocation: Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King’s Will (Oxford University Press, 2016)
2016
Terri Snyder, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
2015
Paula Michaels, Lamaze: An International History (Oxford University Press, 2014)
2014
Estelle Freedman, Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press, 2013)
2013
Nancy Kollman, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
2012
Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain (Oxford University Press, 2011)
2011
Sarah Curtis, Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of the French Empire (Oxford University Press, 2010)
2010
Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
2009
Rachel Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France (Johns Hopkins, 2008)
2008
Jill Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (University of California Press, 2007)
2007
Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge (University of California Press, 2006)
2006
Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005
Irene Guenther, Nazi ‘Chic’?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich (Berg Publishers, 2004)
2004
Tanis C. Thorne, The World’s Richest Indian: The Scandal Over Jackson Barnett’s Oil Fortune (Oxford University Press, 2003)
2003
Lucy G. Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (University of California Press, 2003)
2002
Patricia A. Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
2001
Jessica Weiss, To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
2000
Margaret D. Jacobs, Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999)
Diane Wolfthal, Images of Rape: The “Heroic” Tradition and its Alternatives (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
1999
Nina Rattner Gelbart, The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madam du Coudray (University of California Press, 1998)
1998
Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937 (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
1997
Estelle B. Freedman, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
1996
Susan L. Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)
1995
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
1994
Marilynn S. Johnson, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (University of California Press, 1994)
1993
Glenna Matthews, The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (Oxford University Press, 1992)
1992
Francesca Miller, Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice (University Press of New England, 1991)
1991
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Princeton University Press, 1990)
1990
Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1989)
1989
Margaret Washington Creel, A Peculiar People:’ Slave Religion and Community Culture Among the Gullah (New York University Press, 1988)
1988
Nina Rattner Gelbart, Feminine and Opposition Journalism in Old Regime France: Le Journal des Dames (University of California Press, 1987)
1987
Joan M. Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850 (Yale University Press, 1986)
Dolores E. Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community (Temple University Press, 1986)
1986
No Prize Awarded.
1985
Michelle Root-Bernstein, Boulevard Theater and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris (UMI Research Press, 1984)
1984
Sharon L. Sievers, Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 1983)
1983
Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (Pantheon Books, 1982)
1982
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville (University Press of New England, 1980)
1981
Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen, Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women’s Lives in Nineteenth Century England, France, and the United States (Stanford University Press, 1981)
