Lester J. Cappon Award

(formerly the National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars Award, 1965–2005)

Year of Award	Article	Issue
2011	Juliana Barr, “Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the ‘Borderlands’ of the Early Southwest”	January
2010	Co-Winners
	Susan Scott Parrish, “Richard Ligon and the Atlantic Science of Commonwealth”	April
	Caroline Winterer, “Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America”	January
2009	Gregory E. O’Malley, “Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619–1807”	January
2008	Kathleen DuVal, “Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana”	April
2007	Stephanie E. Smallwood, “African Guardians, European Slave Ships, and the Changing Dynamics of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic”	October
2006	Michael McDonnell, “Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia”	April
2005	David J. Silverman, “Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard”	April
2004	Daniel Vickers, “Those Dammed Shad: Would the River Fisheries of New England Have Survived in the Absence of Industrialization?”	October
2003	Clare A. Lyons, “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia”	January
2002	Stephen Conways, “From Fellow-Nationals to Foreigners: British Perceptions of the Americans, circa 1739-1783”	January
2001	Michael Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators”	October
2000	Susan Juster, “Mystical Pregnancy and Holy Bleeding: Visionary Experience in Early Modern Britain and America”	April
1999	Christopher L. Brown, “Empire without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution”	April
1998	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Wheels, Looms, and the Gender Division of Labor in Eighteenth-Century New England”	January
1997	Holly Brewer, “Entailing Artistocracy in Colonial Virginia: ‘Ancient Feudal Restraints’ and Revolutionary Reform”	April
1996	Ira Berlin, “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America”	April
1995	Martin Quitt, “Trade and Acculturation at Jamestown, 1607-1609: The Limits of Understanding”	April
1994	Daniel Scott Smith, “Continuity and Discontinuity in Puritan Naming: Massachusetts, 1771”	January
1993	T. H. Breen, “Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution”	July
1992	Patricia Seed, “Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empire”	April
1991	*Cornelia Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village”	January
1990	*Daniel F. Vickers, “Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America”	January
1989	John Brooke, “To the Quiet of the People: Revolutionary Settlements and Civil Unrest in Western Massachusetts,1774-1789”	July
1988	Isaac Kramnick, “The 'Great National Discussion': The Discourse of Politics in 1787”	January
1987	Daniel W. Howe, “The Political Psychology of The Federalist*”	July
1986	Peter S. Onuf, “Liberty, Development, and Union: Visions of the West in the 1780s”	April
1985	Melvin B. Endy, Jr., “Just War, Holy War, and Millennialism in Revolutionary America”	January
1984	Bettye Hobbs Pruitt, “Self-Sufficiency and the Agricultural Economy of Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts”	July
1983	W. J. Eccles, “The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism”	July
	Daniel K. Richter, “War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience” (Co-Winners)	October
1982	*Gordon S. Wood, “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century”	July
1981	*Alfred F. Young, “George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution”	October
1980	Jeffrey J. Crow, “Slave Rebelliousness and Social Conflict in North Carolina, 1775 to 1802”	January
1979	Ralph Lerner, “Commerce and Character: The Anglo-American as New-Model Man”	January
	Peter N. Moogk, “‘Thieving Buggers’ and ‘Stupid Sluts’: Insults and Popular Culture in New France” (Co-Winners)	October
1978	Drew R. McCoy, “Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America”	October
1977	Catherine M. Scholten,“‘On the Importance of the Obstetrick Art’: Changing Customs of Childbirth in America, 1760 to 1825”	July
1976	Gary B. Nash, “Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia”	January
1975	T. H. Breen, “Persistent Localism: English Social Change and the Shaping of New England Institutions”	January
1974	*Rhys Isaac, “Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists' Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775”	July
1973	T. H. Breen and Stephen Foster, “Moving to the New World: The Character of Early Massachusetts Immigration”	April
1972	Norman S. Fiering, “Will and Intellect in the New England Mind”	October
1971	Allan Kulikoff, “The Progress of Inequality in Revolutionary Boston”	July
1970	*Pauline Maier, “Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America”	January
1969	Robert M. Weir, “`The Harmony We Were Famous For': An Interpretation of Pre-Revolutionary South Carolina Politics”	October
1968	Michael Zuckerman, “The Social Context of Democracy in Massachusetts”	October
1967	*Edmund S. Morgan, “The Puritan Ethic and the American Revolution”	January
1966	Philip J. Greven, Jr., “Family Structure in Seventeenth-Century Andover, Massachusetts”	April
1965	H. Roy Merrens, “Historical Geography and Early American History”	October