1940s
- 1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
- 1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
- 1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech
- 1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
- 1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
- 1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
- 1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
- 1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
- 1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
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