2000s
- 2000: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 by David M. Kennedy
- The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America by Kevin Phillips
- Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier by James H. Merrell
- 2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
- The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar
- Way Out There in the Blue by Frances FitzGerald
- 2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
- Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation by J. William Harris
- Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter
- 2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–1943 by Rick Atkinson
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
- Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
- 2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
- Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent
- They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 by David Maraniss
- 2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
- Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
- Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, volumes 1 & 2 by Michael O'Brien
- 2006: Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
- New York Burning by Jill Lepore
- The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz
- 2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell
- 2008: What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
- Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek
- 2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
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