Every Albert J. Beveridge Award winner, 1939–2026

The Albert J. Beveridge Award has gone to 88 books since 1939; in 1960, 1970, 1971, 1995 and 2015 the prize was shared, and in 2 years it was not given at all. The American Historical Association gives it for a book in English on the history of the United States, Canada or Latin America since 1492. It was given every other year from 1939 to 1945 and every year since; the AHA now calls it the Beveridge Family Prize in American History. The latest winner is The Home Front by Lauren Duval (2026).

How book difficulty is measured

2026

• The Home Front by Lauren Duval

2025

• Plantation Goods by Seth Rockman

2024

• Before the Movement by Dylan C. Penningroth — difficulty 40/100, about 9.2 hours

2023

• Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons by Kirsten Silva Gruesz

2022

• American Mirror by Roberto Saba

2021

• The Women's Fight by Thavolia Glymph

2020

• American Lucifers by Jeremy Zallen

2019

• Cigarettes, Inc. by Nan C. Enstad

2018

• Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend

2017

• The World and All the Things upon It by David Chang

2016

• Purchasing Whiteness by Ann Twinam

2015

• Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth Fenn — joint winner
• The Empire of Necessity by Greg Grandin — joint winner

2014

• Plutopia by Kate Brown

2013

• The Mortal Sea by W. Jeffrey Bolster

2012

• Freedom Papers by Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard

2011

• Last Call by Daniel Okrent

2010

• Mosquito Empires by John Robert McNeill

2009

• Shadows at Dawn by Karl Jacoby

2008

• The Shifting Grounds of Race by Scott Kurashige

2007

• The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt

2006

• Buffalo Bill's America by Louis S. Warren

2005

• Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely

2004

• In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Edward L. Ayers

2003

• Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin

2002

• Taking Haiti by Mary A. Renda

2001

• The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar

2000

• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

1999

• The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz

1998

• Slave Counterpoint by Philip D. Morgan

1997

• Magistrates of the Sacred by William B. Taylor

1996

• William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor

1995

• Terrible Honesty by Ann Douglas — joint winner
• Creating the Commonwealth by Stephen Innes — joint winner

1994

• Providence Island, 1630–1641 by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

1993

• The Nahuas After the Conquest by James Lockhart

1992

• The Middle Ground by Richard White

1991

• Alabi's World by Richard Price

1990

• Awash in a Sea of Faith by Jon Butler

1989

• That Noble Dream by Peter Novick

1988

• Like a Family by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Christopher B. Daly and Lu Ann Jones

1987

• Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1850 by Mary C. Karasch

1986

• The Mexican Revolution by Alan S. Knight

1985

• Maya Society under Colonial Rule by Nancy M. Farriss

1984

• Chants Democratic by Sean Wilentz

1983

• Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915 by Louis R. Harlan

1982

• A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881–1905 by Walter Rodney

1981

• The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore by Paul G. E. Clemens

1980

• Cities of the American West by John W. Reps

1979

• Keepers of the Game by Calvin Martin

1978

• The People and the King by John Leddy Phelan

1977

• The Enlightenment in America by Henry F. May

1976

• American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan

1975

• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 by David Brion Davis

1974

• Black Majority by Peter H. Wood

1973

• Regeneration Through Violence by Richard Slotkin — difficulty 63/100, about 22 hours

1972

• The Best Poor Man's Country by James T. Lemon

1971

• Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler — joint winner
• The Discovery of the Asylum by David J. Rothman — joint winner

1970

• "Gentlemen of Property and Standing" by Leonard L. Richards — joint winner
• Populism to Progressivism in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney — joint winner

1969

• The Private City by Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

1968

• The Intellectuals and McCarthy by Michael Paul Rogin

1966

• Reconstructing the Union by Herman Belz

1965

• The Discovery of Abundance by Daniel M. Fox

1964

• The Eleventh Pillar by Linda Grant DePauw

1962

• The New Empire by Walter LaFeber

1961

• The United States and the First Hague Peace Conference by Calvin DeArmond Davis

1960

• The United States and Pancho Villa by Clarence C. Clendenen — joint winner
• The Enterprise of a Free People by Nathan Miller — joint winner

1959

• Conservative Crisis and the Rule of Law by Arnold M. Paul

1958

• Tomorrow a New World by Paul Conkin

1957

• Rails, Mines, and Progress by David M. Pletcher

1956

• The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 by Paul W. Schroeder

1955

• Colonists from Scotland by Ian C. C. Graham

1954

• The Development of American Petroleum Pipelines by Arthur M. Johnson

1953

• A History of the Freedmen's Bureau by George R. Bentley

1952

• Robert Morris, Revolutionary Financier by Clarence Ver Steeg

1951

• History of Marshall Field and Co., 1852–1906 by Robert Twyman

1950

• Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader by Glyndon G. Van Deusen

1949

• Steam Power on the American Farm by Reynold M. Wik

1948

• John William Draper and the Religion of Science by Donald Fleming

1947

• The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America by Lewis Hanke

1946

• Backwoods Utopias by Arthur Eugene Bestor, Jr.

1945

• John Stuart and the Southern Colonial Frontier by John Richard Alden

1943

• The American Frontier in Hawaii by Harold Whitman Bradley

1941

• The Background of the Revolution in Maryland by Charles A. Barker

1939

• James Kent: A Study in Conservatism by John T. Horton

Questions

Who won the Albert J. Beveridge Award in 2026?

The Home Front by Lauren Duval.

In which years was the Albert J. Beveridge Award not awarded?

1963 and 1967.

Winners from Wikipedia, checked 2026-10-31.

Other prizes: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, International Booker Prize, National Book Award for Fiction, Women's Prize for Fiction, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Prix Goncourt, Dublin Literary Award, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Costa Novel Award, Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. Every literary prize; every winner of 2026.