* notes those articles that also won the Cappon Award
| Year of Award | Article | Issue | |
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| 2024 | Mélanie Lamotte, “Beyond the Atlantic: Unifying Racial Policies across the Early French Empire” |
January 2024 |
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| 2022 | Miles Grier, “Staging the Cherokee Othello: An Imperial Economy of Indian Watching” |
January 2016 |
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| 2020 | Christine DeLucia, “Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: Indigenous Material Culture and Early American History Making at Ezra Stiles’s Yale Museum” |
January 2018 |
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| 2018 | *Rebecca Earle,“The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism” | July 2016 | |
| 2016 | Chris Evans, “The Plantation Hoe: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Commodity, 1650–1850” | January 2012 | |
| 2014 | Katherine Grandjean, “New World Tempests: Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War” | January 2011 | |
| 2012 | Greg O’Malley, “Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619–1807” | January 2009 | |
| 2010 | Alexander X. Byrd, “Eboe, Country, Nation, and Gustavus Vassa’s Interesting Narrative” | January 2006 | |
| 2008 | David J. Silverman, “Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha’s Vineyard” | April 2005 | |
| 2006 | Michael Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators” | October 2001 | |
| 2004 | Christopher L. Brown, “Empire without Slaves: British Concepts of Emancipation in the Age of the American Revolution” | April 1999 | |
| 2002 | Susan Juster, “Mystical Pregnancy and Holy Bleeding: Visionary Experience in Early Modern Britain and America” | April 2000 | |
| 2000 | Holly Brewer, “Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: ‘Ancient Feudal Restraints’ and Revolutionary Reform” | April 1997 | |
| 1998 | Ira Berlin, “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America” | April 1996 | |
| 1996 | *Cornelia Hughes Dayton, “Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village” | January 1991 | |
| 1994 | T.H. Breen, “Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution” | July 1993 | |
| 1992 | *Daniel F. Vickers, “Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early America” | January 1990 | |
| 1990 | *Daniel W. Howe, “The Political Psychology of The Federalist” | July 1987 | |
| 1988 | James H. Merrell, “The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience” | October 1984 | |
| 1986 | *Alfred F. Young, “George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742–1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution” | October 1981 | |
| 1984 | *Gordon S. Wood, “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causalty and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century” | July 1982 | |
| 1982 | Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, “Of Agues and Fevers: Malaria in the Early Chesapeake” | January 1976 | |
| 1980 | *Rhys Isaac, “Evangelical Revolt: The Nature of the Baptists’ Challenge to the Traditional Order in Virginia, 1765 to 1775” | July 1974 | |
| 1976 | *Pauline Maier, “Popular Uprisings and Civil Authority in Eighteenth-Century America” | January 1970 | |
| 1972 | *Edmund S. Morgan, “The Puritan Ethic and the American Revolution” | January 1967 | |