2025

• Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, Rose Miron, Newberry Library (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

2024

• Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920, edited by Michelle Daniel Jones, New York University, and Elizabeth Nelson, Indiana University Indianapolis (The New Press, 2023)
  • Honorable Mention – Where We Belong: Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains, Daisy Ocampo, California State University San Bernardino (University of Arizona Press, 2023)
  • Honorable Mention – I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction, Kidada E. Williams, Wayne State University (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)

2023

• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake, Tiya Miles, Harvard University (Random House, 2021)

2022

• The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Dan Hicks, University of Oxford (Pluto Press, 2021)
  • Honorable Mention – Curating America’s Painful Past: Memory, Museums, and the National Imagination, Tim Gruenewald, University of Hong Kong (University Press of Kansas, 2021)

2021

• Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, Rebecca S. Wingo, University of Cincinnati; Jason A. Heppler, University of Nebraska at Omaha; and Paul Schadewald, Macalester College (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)

• • Honorable Mention – Standing with Standing Rock – Voices from the #NODAPL Movement, Nick Estes, University of New Mexico, and Jaskiran Dhillon, The New School (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
    
  • Honorable Mention – Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University, Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Clemson University (University of Iowa Press, 2020)

2020

• Active Collections, Elizabeth Wood, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens; Rainey Tisdale; and Trevor Jones, History Nebraska (Routledge, 2018)
  • Honorable Mention – Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit, Lisa Blee, Wake Forest University, and Jean M. O’Brien, University of Minnesota (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)

2019

• Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, by Chip Colwell, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
  • Honorable Mention – Memory Lands: King Phillip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. Delucia, Mount Holyoke College (Yale University Press, 2018)

2018

• Andrew G. Kirk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, A Graphic History (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Honorable Mention – Ronald Rudin, Concordia University, Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park (University of Toronto Press, 2016)

2017

• The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between, by James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016)
  • Honorable Mention- Interpreting Food at Museums and Historic Sites, by Michelle Moon, Newark Museum (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016)

2016

• Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, by Susan Ferentinos, Public History Consultant (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014)
  • Honorable Mention- “History is Bunk”: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village, by Jessie Swigger, Western Carolina University (The University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)

2015

• From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement, by Andrea A. Burns, Appalachian State University (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013)
  • Honorable Mention- Alice Morse Earle and the Domestic History of Early America, by Susan Reynolds Williams, Fitchburg State College (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013)

2014

• History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940, by Robert Townsend, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
  • Honorable Mention- Who Owns American’s Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History, by Robert C. Post, Curator Emeritus, National Museum of American History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)

2013

• Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History, by Denise Meringolo of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)
  • Honorable Mention- Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War, by Michael Scott Van Wagenen of Georgia Southern University (Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012)

2012

• Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities, by Andrew Hurley of the University of Missouri – St. Louis (Temple University Press, 2010)

2011

• The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, by Tiya Miles of the University of Michigan (The University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
  • Honorable Mention-  Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle Over W.E.B. Du Bois, by Amy Bass of the The College of New Rochelle (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
  • Honarble Mention- Voices from the Back Stairs: Interpreting Servants’ Lives at Historic House Museums, by Jennifer Pustz of the University of Iowa (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010)

2010

• Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian’s Journey through Public Memory, by Ronald Rudin (University of Toronto Press, 2009) Companion Website:  http://rememberingacadie.concordia.ca/

2009

• Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History, by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (University of Arizona Press, 2007)
  • Honorable Mention-Consuming History:  Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture, by Jerome de Groot (Routledge, 2009)

2008

• Haunted by Waters:A Journey through Race and Place in the American West, by Robert Hayashi (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
  • Honorable Mention- Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, by  James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, eds.(The New Press, New York, NY)

2007

• The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City, by Cathy Stanton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006)

2006

• Road, River, and Ol’ Boy Politics: A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb, by Linda Scarbrough (Texas State Historical Assocaition, 2005)

2005

First year presented

• History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa, by Annie E. Coombes, (University of London, 2003)