History
- 2008 — Edmund S. Morgan
- 2002 — John Hope Franklin
- 1996 — Peter Gay
- 1990 — C. Vann Woodward
- 1984 — George F. Kennan
- 1972 — Henry Steele Commager
- 1967 — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- 1957 — Allan Nevins
- 1952 — Carl Sandburg
- 1948 — Charles Austin Beard
- 1937 — Charles M. Andrews
- 1927 — William M. Sloane
- 1918 — William Roscoe Thayer
- 1910 — James Ford Rhodes
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