Dunning Prize
Mathilda Dunning wanted to memorialize her father, so she left a bequest establishing an award in his name. The Dunning Prize, given by the American Historical Association, is given to a young scholar for the best book on United States history. In a twist that is different from many awards, this prize is given only to books which are the author's first or second book.
The award was established in 1929 and given out every other year until 1986, when it became annual.
Winners
Year |
Title |
Author |
2003 |
City of Courts | Michael Willrich |
2001 |
The Education of Laura Bridgman | Ernest Freeberg |
1999 |
Asylum for Mankind | Marilyn Baseler |
1997 |
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs | Kathleen Brown |
1995 |
Farmers and Fishermen | Daniel Vickers |
1993 |
Palatines, Liberty, and Property | A.G. Roeber |
| Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy | Daniel Usner Jr. | |
1991 |
Waterfront Worker of New Orleans | Eric Arnesen |
1990 |
A Midwife's Tale | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
1989 |
The Last of the Fathers | Drew McCoy |
1988 |
Hoover Dam | Joseph Stevens |
1987 |
Tobacco and Slaves | Allan Kulikoff |
1986 |
Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground | Barbara Fields |
1984 |
Eugene Debs | Nick Salvatore |
1982 |
Transatlantic Industrial Revolution | David Jeremy |
1980 |
The Plains Across | John Unruh Jr |
1978 |
Politics and Power in a Slave Society | J. Mills Thornton |
1976 |
Burnham of Chicago | Thomas Hines |
1974 |
Salem Possessed | Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum |
1972 |
Mussolini and Fascism | John Diggins |
1970 |
The Creation of the American Republic | Gordon Wood |
1968 |
Twelve Against Empire | Robert Beisner |
1966 |
Toward Lexington | John Willard Shy |
1964 |
Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866 | John & LaWanda Cox |
1962 |
The Power of the Purse | E. James Ferguson |
1960 |
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction | Eric McKitrick |
1958 |
The Jacksonian Persuasion | Marvin Myers |
1956 |
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism | John Higham |
1954 |
The Old Country Store | Gerald Carson |
1952 |
Steamboats on the Western Rivers | Louis & Beatrice Hunter |
1950 |
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth | Henry Nash Smith |
1948 |
Mahan and Seapower | William Livezey |
1946 |
Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson Mohawk Region | David Ellis |
1944 |
Admiral Sims and the Modern American Navy | Elting Morison |
1942 |
Boston's Immigrants | Oscar Handlin |
1940 |
Robert Dale Owen | Richard Leopold |
1938 |
Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era | Robert East |
1935 |
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic | Angie Debo |
1933 |
The Mission to Spain of Pierre Soule | Amos Ettinger |
1931 |
South Carolina During Reconstruction | Francis Simkins and R. H. Woody |
1929 |
Benjamin H. Hill | Haywood Pearce Jr |
